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• Its possible to install FreeBSD ina External USB HDD?

  You can install FreeBSD on an external disk. The FreeBSD Handbook answers the other questions. Source: 12 months ago

• FreeBSD docs a good start to start the journey?

  I have an veeery old notebook (Toshiba tecra s2) and wanted to give this machine a new life. Learning about unix and so on. Are the docs on https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ a good start for this? Or does someone has any recommendations? Source: about 1 year ago

• how well would freebsd perform on a development / study laptop?

  In the official handbook read chapters 1-5, 13, & 19 to get oriented. Source: over 1 year ago

• Distro for a Software Engineer.

  The system that exhibits the best software engineering in its development and in the software packaging process is undoubtedly FreeBSD -- it wouldn't hurt to look at it more carefully. I build all of my desktop (Gnome/Plasma/XFCE) and math and programming languages / editors from source code on FreeBSD using the latest stable operating system release (13.1, soon to be 13.2). See the FreeBSD Journal to get an... Source: over 1 year ago

• Thinking about setting up a FreeBSD home server.

  I'd suggest not doing any searches, and just using the default documentation. The handbook is what drew me to FreeBSD nearly two decades ago. Not random documentation from different users trying to accomplish the same thing in multiple ways often with little regard to security or functionality. The Handbook isn't without flaws, but it is a excellent unified documentation that covers every basic topic. Source: over 1 year ago

• Why are there three versions (12.4, 12.3, 13.1) out?

  Something like: I would recommend you to get familiar with this page https://www.freebsd.org/releng/ which explains in detail the answer to your question and while at it you can learn more about FreeBSD here https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Documentation is such an important habit but there are little to no examples showing HOW to format or even do documentation. How would you explain or demonstrate your method of documentation?

  I reference this a lot for ideas in formatting and setup: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/. Source: over 1 year ago

• FreeBSD on an asus eeePc

  Check out the official handbook and read Ch 1-5,12, & 18 to start. Depending on your wifi you may need to figure a workaround or consider a USB dongle. The official forums are helpful as are many open-source forums for how to configure or workaround certain wifi hardware. Source: over 1 year ago

• new user hopefully?

  Also checkout the official handbook and official forum first to have questions answered. This community is pretty helpful so long as a user makes an effort to find an answer to a question, especially if there already is an answer. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is LFS (Linux From Scratch) a good way to learn how GNU/Linux works from a low level perspective (not kernel level)?

  And there is always the best documentation out there, the FreeBSD handbook : https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Linux noob here

  It's not a Linux but it is another Unix-like OS. The advantage of FreeBSD is that it is extremely well documented and even comes with an online Handbook that pretty much can teach you anything you'd want to know. Messing with FreeBSD was how I got comfortable with CLI. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is FreeBSD for me??

  Since you've already installed Arch and Gentoo, installing FreeBSD is not a difficult task. They have a guided installer similar to archinstall which makes installation simple. The Handbook covers pretty much everything you need to know regarding installation, network configuration, setting up an X server, etc. This should be enough to get you started. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Shutting down Ethernet interfaces on Unix?

  Adding to what has been said, FreeBSD's official handbook is not only worth reading but should be your first stop for getting questions answered followed by the forum. While the FreeBSD community is helpful they take pride in their handbook & value users who make an effort to find the answer before asking. Nothing personal towards you, we all had to have a start somewhere. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Freebsd for the very first time

  Id suggest you start here https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ . The FreeBSD handbook will be your best friend. Source: about 2 years ago

• FreeBSD Handbook Improvement Survey

  In a general sense, and a lot of commands are the same, but they are very different for a lot of stuff. Compare https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ to https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html and you can see the large differences. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Some concerns regarding Debian

  If you ever want to get over your fear of the command line, you can do what I did. There is an operating system called FreeBSD that I cut my teeth on. It's stable and secure as hell and is also devoted to open source software. It has its own versions of much of the the same software Linux has, although it doesn't have Steam so you wouldn't be playing any modern games for a while. What it does have, however, is a... Source: about 2 years ago

• From macOS to FreeBSD

  > It is sort of sad but BSD is bad at publishing news and tutorials. Say what? https://www.freebsdnews.com/ http://undeadly.org/ https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Thats the dream

  Eh, I gave very different use cases, maybe a real world example: documentation, yes, should be walls of well formatted consistently structured text. Maybe an example to highlight, the FreeBSD handbook: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Starting little homelab serv, need advice around minimal requierement for ZFS / K3S

  Give it a try, the handbook is a great start, read some parts which interest you. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/. Source: over 2 years ago

• No idea about Tech. But challenging myself to be tech savvy in the next few months.

  No problem. Unix is a multi-user operating system that is usually associated with servers, although its becoming more popular on desktops. It was developed in the 1970s and is an AT&T Trademark, so people use clones of Unix, with the two most popular being Linux and FreeBSD. Both support a wide range of hardware and can be installed on PCs and single-board computers like the raspberry pi. My preference is for... Source: over 2 years ago

• Question for home partition.

  The FreeBSD Handbook describes the limited ext4 filesystem support offered by FreeBSD, so your home partition may need to be migrated to another filesystem, UFS, ZFS, etc. UFS enjoys better support on Linux than Ext2/3/4 does on FreeBSD. Make sure your User ID numbers align to the same user name on both systems to avoid permissions issues between both systems sharing a directory. Source: over 2 years ago