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GhostBSD is FreeBSD with GUI installer and MATE by default - it also comes with XFCE flavor.

Highly recommended.

I always like to have options - with /rescue you have statically linked bectl(8) and zpool(8) and zfs(8) commands - which help to manage ZFS and ZFS Boot Environments.

More like 3 files.

- /boot/loader.conf for kernel settings to be set only at boot

- /etc/sysctl.conf for kernel settings to be set anytime

- /etc/rc.conf for rest of configuration

LOL :D

1500+ points for a switch from Windows to Linux :)

I prefer to do that locally using FreeBSD Jails:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/12/15/secure-containeriz...

Not sure why You got such low transfer speeds so I just tested EXT4 and NTFS read and write performance on FreeBSD.

Its about:

-> 800+/250+ MB/s for NTFS

-> 200+/128+ MB/s for EXT4

... and its on 8 years old ThinkPad T480 laptop with CPU speed set/limited to 1.4GHz.

Details:

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_mlqaTWEAAxyRU?format=jpg&name=...

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_mlqaMWMAMbq2q?format=jpg&name=...

Title should be corrected from 'FreeBS' to 'FreeBSD'.

How come this one about FreeBSD is [flagged] and this one [1] about SmartOS not?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706947

If you want to stay low on resources you can use Netsurf.

I just started it and loading my https://vermaden.wordpress.com/ page used 86 MB of RAM - a lot less then Firefox or Chrome.

Personal UNIX/FreeBSD/Linux blog at - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/ - that also comes with weekly Valuable News series dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems available - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/ - here.

I would add these to the list:

- https://is.gd/BECTL

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/zfs-boot-environme...

Great news.

Someone just did a great work on security audit and made FreeBSD Jails a lot more secure.

This is what security audits are for.

That is because Apple took entire FreeBSD 'userspace' as part of Mac OS X.

Everything that I need works perfectly on X11.

Why would I move to Wayland where at least some things DO NOT WORK?

How the 'GPL' part worked out to force VMware to send back the things they modified?

FreeBSD.

There are literally TONS of various NAS cases for 3.5 drives - with amd64 or arm64 CPUs - some Mini-ITX or STX based ... what is lacking on the market are NAS cases for multiple 2.5 drives ONLY.

There are some.

For example BSD ls(1) is not able to list dirs first.

Other thing is that BSD utils are more strict ... like:

    # command -o -p -t -i -O -n -s ARGUMENTS

If you do it other wise - like that:

    # command -o -p -t ARGUMENTS -i -O -n -s

... they will just throw error - but its all documented in the man pages.

I already do ... I used FreeBSD on desktops/laptops since 20 years.

Details:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/my-freebsd-story/

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/

What do you mean back?

I am running my blog since 2018 and it has never been better :)

Container support is ready since year 2000 on FreeBSD while Linux needed to catch up the game and with Docker finally made it in 2013.

More here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/freebsd-jails-cont...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/freebsd-jails-secu...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/are-freebsd-jails-...

As usual with Microsoft - its all fucked up.

WINE => Windows Subsystem for Linux/FreeBSD/UNIX

WSL => Linux/FreeBSD Subsystem for Windows

I agree with every word Pavel put there - and what is most threatening ... we are about to lose it.

Why?

Normies.

They were 'played' in C19 time - and they will be 'played' next time ... and EVERY next time.

There are just too many IGNORANT people out there that trust TV.

Vote with your wallet.

Always works.

Also forked and updated with more info:

- https://codeberg.org/vermaden/freebsd-things/src/branch/main...

Done something similar in 2018:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/08/21/syncthing-on-freeb...

You may find that useful in this topic:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/crucial-freebsd-to...

Because containers are not virtual machines - You can run 1000 FreeBSD Jails on your laprop while you will not be able to run 1000 VMs - Jails are a lot lighter on resources then VMs.

Check BastilleBSD https://bastillebsd.org/ along with Rocinante - https://bastillebsd.org/rocinante/rocinante/ from here.

I ditched Docker and Podman for FreeBSD Jails :)

More here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/freebsd-jails-cont...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/freebsd-jails-secu...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/are-freebsd-jails-...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/new-jless-freebsd-...