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..:: Notes on FreeBSD ::..
below are my notes on FreeBSD and various configs
FreeBSD is a great os. it can do everything. it is easy to use, manage and had a ton of apps avail.
supports a lot of hardware, from raspberry-pi's to supercomputers, and because of its truely 'libre' license, is used (wholey or in part) in a number of commercial products.
I mainly user FreeBSD for servers in the cloud, as it's robust and easy to manage, and can run all the tasks i need. it was the goto os for this website for those very reasons.
At home, it's installed on one of my Raspberry-PI 3b+ serving DNS via Unbound.
It for the basis of my FreeNAS data storage system, inside my PS3 and PS4, my Nintendo Switch and my Pioneer Plasma tv, and have running on an old PC. as well as many vms.
At work it performs, web, wiki, proxy, dns and system-monitor duties.
because the install is old-skool, its quick and easy to spin up a server.
a FreeBSD-Desktop is not hard, but requires a little more work, which might put off those windows, mac, or desktop-linux users so used to graphical installers, and full-featured distros.
# freebsd-update fetch && install
# pkg update && upgrade