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My used Thinkpad came today, I bought a T490s, but they sent a T14s, slight upgrade so win win.
I installed FreeBSD and set to work resolving any issues. Everything mostly works out of the box, except occasionally the graphical session (KDE) will hang/freeze, usually during slightly intensive tasks and then I have to switch to another TTY to reboot.
I can't seem to find a resolution so off to the forum I go!
@fionescu@bsd.cafe @knapjack@vivaldi.net
Yeah I've seen some mention that xfce has been tainted , what a shame 😞. But that's interesting to know about enlightenment. I've honestly never tried it , this could be an interesting little experiment.
@washbear@mastodon.sdf.org
So I've chosen a Thinkpad T490s which seems to be fully compatible, besides Bluetooth, for both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
@greylinux @knapjack@vivaldi.net
that being said I would like to test drive things like containers on the BSD's (jails, cells, podman, etc) Linux compatibility , VM's etc and FreeBSD on paper seems to be ahead here too.
@knapjack@vivaldi.net @knapjack@vivaldi.net
I couldn't agree more and you may be right. I do most of my work on the gaming PC as it has a bigger screen. I've specifically chosen this old laptop for capatibilty with both FreeBSD and NetBSD, to give the best out of the box experience , on paper everything should work except Bluetooth.
On a laptop I tend to do basic level administration for my server remotely and web browsing when away from home. Both really are low level needs , but I do like the niceties. A nice desktop environment like xfce or plasma has always been my go to and I know plasma doesn't work well on NetBSD for example. These are the things I mean, when comparing one to the other for desktop usage , but I agree it is a very personal metric and is hard to honestly give a exact answer. Hopefully though an insight from others with more experience in both, may be enough to aid my decision and change my opinion about where each OS "is" for general use.
Genuine question - for desktop use, how far off is NetBSD from FreeBSD?
I've just bought a second hand laptop to have as a permanent BSD machine. I've played with both OS's before on other laptops and Raspberry Pi's but from my limited testing , NetBSD is more at home as a server OS, albeit still behind FreeBSD, but a solid option all the same.
I will test both OS's on it and I know NetBSD has seen a jolt in interest lately, due to its anti AI stance, but ultimately, I will probably stick with FreeBSD ,until NetBSD can offer the same experience. I may stay with FreeBSD permanently, if they decide to take a firm stance and not strandle the fence with AI.
Again all this based from my limited testing and experience and a large amount of fediverse posts on the subject.
Any advice from the BSD crowd.
(I know this seems hypocritical about AI, especially as I rely heavily still on cachyOS for a gaming PC and Alpine Linux for my servers but I really hope the future is bright for BSD's and a complete move of everything, eventually may be an option )
@paul@paulwilde.uk @paul@paulwilde.uk
yeah I thought the pangolin may have been a long shot, it mostly worked just not WiFi, Bluetooth and audio , the other 2 were easy to over come , but the audio was a deal breaker for this laptop.
I like second hand Thinkpad's though, my first Linux PC was a Thinkpad T440 I think or maybe that was my second , I can't remember.
Still I'll have a FreeBSD laptop for a long time hopefully and the pangolin can be a tinker PC.
So..... I've bought a second hand Thinkpad T490s as a hopefully 🤞 permanent FreeBSD or NetBSD laptop. No matter what I tried, I couldn't get audio or wifi working on my system76 pangolin 12 with any of the BSD's. The Pangolin may have to stay a Linux only PC, but probably only Alpine Linux at most.
I'll keep you updated with my adventures
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
love it!!! I still have a mastodon account but this is my main instance!
I'm really enjoying Horizon Forbidden West, about 20 hours in and personally I think the story is great, possibly even as good as the first one. Shame Playstation have stopped publishing to Steam guess I won't see the next installment·
I feel like I need a new avatar option, I've sported this avatar style for quite sometime now ( years in fact ) , albeit in this new green colour for my littlefedi account and the navy blue for my mastodon (now hosted at https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/ )
Any ideas from the fediverse for avatar options/styles ?
@Siph@meemu.org
I was thinking this exact thing, just the other day, DDG searches and searches in general, dont show many, if any blogs regarding NetBSD. I think this is just modern day search engines though unfortunately 😞
@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
would love to but I struggle to get FreeBSD working 100% on my system76 pangolin 12 laptop 😞
A flawless and simple littlefedi update, went without a single issue, well done @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it and the team for a second release.🎆🎇
its a command line option
https://littlefedi.org/docs.html#:~:text=ping%2C%20publish-,self%2Ddestruct,-Retires%20an%20instance
but I would check with @stefano@bsd.cafe whether this is what you need in your circumstance, but i suspect it is.
Hi fediverse,I could use some advice, is there a way to "self destruct" a GoToSocial instance I selfhost ? similar to how Littlefedi does it. I have no issue with taking the GTS instance offline but I've heard it is bad fediverse etiquette to let a deleted instance, posts linger without a server to connect to.
@amd@prattl.ing
Love Vaultwarden , really easy to self host.
Wish they had a fork of the android app though, but the bitwarden app works fine for now.
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social I'm still waiting in the queue for mine 😞
, why is it taking so long 😡.