Welcome to BSD General. This thread is open to all things BSD including comparison to GNU/Linux and beginner inquiry.
Interested in trying BSD? Security and open source oriented users should check out OpenBSD. The most common and server-minded distro is FreeBSD, which PC-BSD has forked for desktop users. If you want to use a BSD OS and the installation/configuration don't appeal to you consider Apple's OS X in a virtual machine or Mac computer.
For more info on BSD and an in depth comparison to GNU/Linux head here:
I'm gonna get deep into OpenBSD once I'm done with finals on Thursday I can't wait. I've already tasted and familiarized myself with superior UNIX computing and have only heard good things about BSD.
Lincoln Reyes
Just created a FreeBSD server and was disappointed that my GPU doesn't work on my desktop because AMD is a shit.
David Cox
Bsd is cancer kys
Benjamin Hernandez
I have a quick question regarding xorg (X Server)
So when I install the xorg package in BSD, the intel video drivers come bundled, correct? The reason I ask is because when installing Arch and installing xorg, I would always have to install the xf86-video-intel package separately.
Sebastian Green
This is what I'm doing too haha. After school I have so much free time on my hands and I can read up on the BSD system. I feel so euphoric right now tbqhwyf,
Jayden Myers
ganoo lunix is superior
Tyler Johnson
In what way
Mason Watson
>familiarized myself with superior UNIX computing codewords for "I bought a macbook"
Wyatt Mitchell
>because FreeBSD is a shit ftfy; try it in parallels, it should have drivers for virtual svga adapter tho
Wyatt Bailey
Nah, it literally is AMD, they don't support it. Nvidia works perfectly.
I was interested in using it as my main OS so nah
Nathan Gray
all of them
Benjamin Williams
>because AMD is shit ftfy
Lincoln Smith
>cuck license fucking dropped!
Brandon Jackson
So I got openBSD and it doesn't let me use my S/PDIF optical audio. I don't know how to start it with mixerctl.
Any help on this?
Leo James
install gentoo
Jaxson Miller
I jacked off to the OP pic about 10 years ago. That is all.
Christian Nguyen
BSD uses a depreciated sound system dropped from Linux called OSS. If you want working sound you need to use pulseaudio on top because nothing supports OSS.
Alexander Myers
Seems to be working fine with all the other outputs. Just not SPDIF
Ayden Watson
What do you mean by that
Parker Nelson
GNU People hate the BSD license because it doesn't force free software virally, it lets devs make their code proprietary.
Ryan Edwards
Anyone have experience with ghostbsd?
Liam Harris
>tripfag this desperate for attention AGAIN
Dominic Perry
Incase anyone ever wants to know this because it seems undocumented if a bit obvious
mixerctl outputs.mode=digital fixes it.
Bentley Barnes
》Virally 》Not spiderplant-ly
Carson Wright
>general >>general >>>the sort of threads that are killing Sup Forums I was looking for any thread about BSD, but it's not going to be this one. OP should commit sudoku.
Robert Cox
Instead of creating the same threads multiple times why not have one centralized thread? You realize with one thread instead of multiple threads you aren't wasting space in the catalog with thread duplication. So explain to me how this is "killing Sup Forums".
Daniel Gonzalez
cuck license tho
Carter Gutierrez
>one centralised thread
Levi Evans
Lol okay, I'll bite. What would you do instead?
Brayden Hall
>asking what Sup Forums has been doing for years Spotted the newfag. When did you join Sup Forums? 2015? 2016?
Charles Richardson
I think you're the only newfag here though based on the fact that you didn't realize the state of threads on Sup Forums prior to making centralized threads.
Juan Long
>Hurr durr izz liek Reddit omg Fuck of you child.
Chase Torres
>all this damage control
Nathaniel Parker
BSD is not UNIX
Jaxon Hall
Wait, so are you going to continue strawmanning, or did you want to respond to what I said?
Evan Miller
>straw man: a sham argument designed to be defeated Can you point one out?
Brandon Smith
Every BSD thread is 50% explaining the UNIX lineage repeatedly and 50% GPL shills cuck-posting
Evan Gomez
Sure. Remember when I said how the quality of Sup Forums was actually worse before general threads. Were you going to to respond that or just say damage control, because when you say "damage control" out of nowhere, your post comes off as damage control.
Austin Wood
La tia de la portada para mi jajajajaja
Samuel Robinson
>kids not interested in BSD really and just joining the thread because they want to troll If you're not going to discuss *BSD on its own merits, GET THE FUCK OUT.
Cooper Rodriguez
That feel, but Mac OS X isn't fully BSD. Also, POSIX/SUS lean towards System V. But yes, BSD is Unix. It wasn't worse though. Of course, that's only subjective.
Cameron Reed
Every BSD thread is 50% mactards pretending to not be tech illiterate morons and 50% pretending their toddler OS with a frankenturd mach/next abomination is actually UNIX.
Well, my plan was to try them in Vbox. I will see if I can get an old notebook/thinkpad to try. Thank you.
Great! Thank you for the tips and the links.
Jaxson Butler
Is BSD hard to setup if I wanna use xfce for example
Connor King
Not at all.
Works pretty much like Linux if you're planning to do that.
Jacob Torres
>complaining about shitposting >on Sup Forums Go back to r@ddit or lurk moar
Andrew Wood
>Sup Forums is supposed to be shit xD that's how we know YOU are the redditor
Brandon Rodriguez
Hmm ok. I'll give it a shot. Lets hope it works better than xfce on Arch.
Leo White
>Hehe i love memes on Sup Forums xDD back to Rgag
Chase Thomas
sauce of pic?
Aaron Green
Honestly DEs, just in my personal opinion, aren't worth the effort. It's easy for me to do stuffs in a simple WM now.
Christopher Allen
Yeah, I think cwm is a masterpiece, and it comes with OpenBSD.
Benjamin Campbell
You feeling like having to read tons of Documentations for said WM, manually go in and configure every single about the WM in various config files, learn the syntax of the config file in the first place is less of an effort than using a DE?
>Sup Forums was always shit Did you read that on ED? Did you know ED is a satirical website?
Aaron Scott
Yes, because all the DEs are being ported from GNU/Linux and thus are missing any feature that has the Linux kernel or systemd as a dependency. I'll try Lumina some day after they release 1.0
Leo Lee
Going by your logic, the Chris-Chan article was wrong and he's brilliant.
Michael Gutierrez
Sindy The Altoids Devil Girl
Gorgeous girl, definitely better than beating off to a fucking penguin.
Parker Peterson
The only serious ED articles are the ones where the subject of the article is seriously fucked up.
Do you realize they tend to exaggerate? If you don't you have autism.
Gabriel Barnes
ED is half exaggeration and half truth. The part about Sup Forums always being shit is truth.
Camden Green
So you did read ED and you believe everything said on it. Amazing how I was right the first time.
It's how we know you're also new. I think it's really funny that people go "haha Sup Forums is bad i might as well just fling my shit around and make it worse!"
Dylan James
thanks based user
Wyatt Collins
I have a network set up in my wpa_supplicant.conf file but it isn't connecting. How do I conenct