FreeBSD 10.4-Release

Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by binaryapparatus on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:11PM (#15394013)

Same recommendation for desktop too. Switching from Arch to FreeBSD couple of months ago was the best move I could do.

Silly way to compare stuff but my Arch always run with processor at 70-72 degrees Celsius. Same setup on FreeBSD and my processor runs at 39-45. Since everything else but kernel runs as exact copy it shows to me that FreeBSD either has less kernel overhead or does scheduling better.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by PopsiclePete on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:25PM (#15396715)

I'm going to go ahead and not recommend that people run FreeBSD on their desktops.

FreeBSD's hardware support is pretty poor - they don't even support intel graphics cards from 3 years ago - https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Intel_Graphics. WiFi support can also be spotty.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by drsopp on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:17PM (#15394073)

I remember back in the 90s when I listened to my 100MHz CPU with a radio. FreeBSD sounded like gentle raindrops. Windows 95 screamed.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by CyberDildonics on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @01:25PM (#15402173)

You should do that again, a writeup on that with audio would be garner plenty of attention.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by danieldk on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:19PM (#15394682)

Same recommendation for desktop too.

A serious question, since such recommendations are regularly thrown around in these threads.

Can you run FreeBSD with a recent AMD GPU (I know that there is the proprietary NVIDIA driver)? Does Wayland work? What about HiDPI screens with GNOME? Is there support for Dropbox now? Is Chrome supported? Does it use GPU acceleration for movie playback?

(As far as I could gather the answer to most of these questions is still 'no'.)

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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by binaryapparatus on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:23AM (#15399213)

Sorry I have no need or use for any of the listed packages/items. Nvidia works extremely well. I don't have AMD. I won't be using Wayland any time soon even if I could. GNOME is or is becoming systemd hostage so I won't install it ever on any system. Dropbox is not welcome for me. Chromium works well. I think GPU acceleration works well.

It all depends on what you use but definitely works well for my needs.

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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by philsnow on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @03:20PM (#15395234)

Are you running arch userspace with freebsd kernel? Is this like running debian kfreebsd ?

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Re:FreeBSD 10.4-Release by binaryapparatus on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:04AM (#15399131)

No, I was running 'pure' Arch, same as I do with FreeBSD now. List of my packages is very minimal so it can be assumed they reliably work the same way on both systems.

I am using offlineimap, mutt, vdirsyncer, khal, khard, w3m, urxvt...

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