- Safer than Linux - Incorporates best init system called OpenRC - No obscure GNU policy - No obscure packages - No NSA-Kernel developed
What Makes TrueOS® Different?
What makes TrueOS different? TrueOS is based on the legendary security and stability of FreeBSD. TrueOS follows FreeBSD-CURRENT, with the latest drivers, security updates, and packages available. Also, our brand new driver package brings in support for newer Intel graphics chipsets and hardware. We pride ourselves on providing industry leading features like PersonaCrypt, which allows encrypting your user home directory and carrying it to other TrueOS machines. TrueOS also supports GELI full disk encryption, keeping your data secure even in the case of physical theft. So go ahead and give us a try. If you hit any snags along the way, we are glad to help.
>So go ahead and give us a try. If you hit any snags along the way, we are glad to help. I tried, but had issues with boot media when trying to install it on an old thinkpad with switchable graphics. Tried iso, and img with similar results under different bios configs.
Nicholas Wright
>thinkpad that's why you won't succeed in life
Isaac Ramirez
name sounds like it would be a chat client
Alexander Howard
What makes it so secure? It's innovative no-network-drivers™ technology ensures you won't be able to download malware from anywhere
Gavin Jones
I bought two to try bsd. How fucked am I socially?
Joseph Rodriguez
TrueOS only works in a virtual machine for me. If I want to run bsd natively I only have luck with openbsd, or netbsd.
Cameron Thomas
>using powerpc why?
John Johnson
>using powerpc But I'm not.
Aaron Rodriguez
>I only have luck with openbsd, or netbsd. Because it's the only BSD that is actually used on real hardware by the devs.
PCBSD/Trueos would have been much better off forking OpenBSD instead of FreeBSD.
Basically fork OpenBSD, add procfs, port FreeBSD's jails to have something to substitute cgroups and then add some daemons for normie user friendliness like mount USB drives on plugin, a WiFi connector with arch's wifimenu and you have a full user friendly OS with still more security than GNU/Linux, can port roughly 99% of Linux Software without compat layer and that's it.
Long term steps: replace fucking UFS
Sebastian Jones
>They renamed PC-BSD
Fucking why?
Isaac Allen
>- Safer than Linux
Oh, that kernel which one researcher found dozens of trivial security bugs in this year? Obscurity might make you feel more secure, but that's not real security user.
>- No obscure GNU policy
What.
>- No obscure packages
"We're so good because we have _less_ software." Wow, you're really selling this.
>- No NSA-Kernel developed
And how would you know? You think that the NSA puts their stamp on code that is intentionally going to give them backdoors? SELinux has their name on it because they actually use the fucking thing.
Anthony Bell
I've been running Linux, Window and OSX for years and decided to try openBSD yesterday for the first time and it's absolutely amazing. Easy install and setup, simple functionality and no bullshit.
Isaiah Butler
Sheer, pure, unadulterated, weaponised autism.
Levi Jones
Try playing a 1080p video in YouTube on fullscreen and look at your cpu usage
Angel Rivera
>Long term steps: replace fucking UFS that's why TrueOS use freebsd as base
Mason Wright
Doesn't seem as bad as it could be. It's an i5 x220.
Alexander Sanders
I think we could easily live with UFS until the priority work is done. Also porting ZFS to OpenBSD or even ext shouldn't be too too much of a big deal
Charles Watson
Tell me 1 reason why OpenBSD is better than FreeBSD
Adrian Moore
>I've been running Linux, Window and OSX for years and decided to try openBSD yesterday for the first time and it's absolutely amazing. Easy install and setup, simple functionality and no bullshit. Fucking this. Everyone teued tobtell me how hard openbsd is to get working, but it's pretty much installs itself, and every question that you were going to ask has already been officially answered by someone in the simplest of ways. With OpenBSD you could answer most if not all your own issues if you just rtfm.
Cooper Taylor
You do realise that it's a lot It runs on actual hardware lmao?
Evan Taylor
trueos is running on my i3 from 2014 with 750ti :}
Nathan Perez
Let me show you a good font rendering.
William Foster
>is running >barely walks
Jose Brown
>pale moon degenerate they are migrating the server, the CA expired ~2 hours ago
Parker Ortiz
It's significant but I don't spend time watching 1080p videos on youtube, the screen itself isn't even 1080p.
I can't? I'm new to BSD as a whole and thought I'd try openBSD first. There's no argument here.
Mason Perez
why do you spread the i5 TRUEOS is slow meme?
Easton Flores
They will migrate freetype2 too or is it expired 2 hours ago? :^)
Levi Thomas
>:^) stop
Adrian Lee
what i wanted to tell you is that you have no gpu acceleration on OpenBSD at all. try running tuxracer or even some basic 2d utility like xfdashboard in case you are on xfce. It's almost unusable for anything that actually moves.
Don't get me wrong, I like OpenBSD and even commit to it. I sell custom built OpenBSD firewalls, routers and NAS to small and medium-sized companies in Germany. But on a desktop? I don't know.
Logan Garcia
isn't freetype2 installed on Gentoo/Arch by default?
Evan Davis
TrueOS > linux confirmed?
Nathaniel Harris
depends on your hardware. all my machines including laptops have gpu accel on openbsd (mix of inteldrm and radeondrm drivers). your experience may vary
Elijah Murphy
>yfw trueos kills Canonical
Jack Flores
If that would be the only issue with it.
Adrian Collins
dumb loli poster
Liam Garcia
>You do realise that it's a lot I'd like to see yours on any system. Youtube takes a lot of CPU regardless, my FX 6300 overclocked to 4.1GHz keeps all 6 cores running at about 35-40% load on youtube while I'm watching 1080p videos.
Adam Price
>doesn't even boot in VirtualBox DISCARDED
Anthony Reyes
Is that really U S A B L E with labtobs?
Aaron Anderson
but why did they go with KDE?
Jaxson Peterson
If you are good with Linux you should be good with *BSD, no one says otherwise
>What Makes TrueOS® Different? Less compatibility, shitter hardware drivers
Grayson Wilson
>There is no user friendly *BSD, right?
Yeah there is, it's called macOS / Darwin, LOL
TrueOS isn't very good but maybe someday it will be a decent alternative to Linux.
Your points: >Safer than Linux Less eyeballs, see the defcon notes that have been circulating here for weeks, hardenedBSD is a cool project and very attractive now that grsec is all but gone on Linux for the public, in the future it probably will actually be safer
>OpenRC Not the best init, that would be launchd, OpenRC really looses its magic once you need to actually do something with it
>No GPL/GNU A big plus, for sure
>Obscure Packages lol
There's some other problems though: Buggy hardware support Horrible DE / DE options (this, compatibility, and performance is going to determine whether 99% of people stick with an OS)
FreeBSD has a big problem in that its devs all use macs and it doesn't have a real desktop install base in the way that OpenBSD does.
Gabriel Lewis
TrueOS is a shitty fucking name too, somehow they found a worse name than PC-BSD