Last Saturday night, I sat down to install FreeBSD. I haven't done so since 4-dot-something, but I'm sure it'll be easy. I'm a NetBSD user after all!
The FreeBSD installer is not as easy as Net's. I eventually gave up trying to get zfs to boot on my T440p, and started thinking about Comic Sans. Didn't boost in last week out of shame.
This week I tried on a new machine (a more modern thinkpad). Got root on ZFS working, thankfully, which for me is the whole point of trying FreeBSD. And eventually X11, KDE, and sound. I still can't get my preferred keyboard layout, though. I went for syncthing in a jail to get 7 points instead of just 2.
I also did a fresh install of my favoured NetBSD, which I don't normally run as a desktop. I have to say, getting a graphical environment working was easier. In general, I find the NetBSD installation process much more pleasant, though I'm of course more familiar with it.
Wes might enjoy looking at the NetBSD boot process. It's wonderfully simple. You can even get root on ZFS, though it's a manual process that makes for a slightly janky boot procedure -- no worse than how Linux boots, though!
https://wiki.netbsd.org/root_on_zfs/
For scoring:
6 points for: FreeBSD installed and online, audio recording (will send link later), and syncthing
15 points for: syncthing in a jail, firewall configured, and I also installed a NetBSD desktop.
I don't think I'll keep the FreeBSD installation, but I am going to keep NetBSD on this laptop. It not only suspends (FreeBSD could do that), it even resumes! But in general, I'm sticking with Linux as a desktop.
https://fountain.fm/episode/cEQx60OAF9sAsf4hA0Xr
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