by Cao | Dec 10, 2019 | Hardware
Michael Larabel from Phoronix tests out FreeBSD 12.1 on one of AMD’s latest Ryzen processors, the Threadripper 3970X. He tests out some benchmarks against Windows and Linux Machines with the Phoronix Test Suite, consisting of Golang benchmarks, DaCapo,...
by Cao | Nov 18, 2019 | Notebook, Tutorial
User Toby B walks us through his journey of setting up and using FreeBSD operating system on a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 notebook. He walks us through the installation process and getting the NVIDIA driver configured. See the link below for the full details. A few years...
by Cao | Oct 18, 2019 | Google, Notebook
User myfreeweb writes about his experience in using FreeBSD operating system on their Google Pixelbook, after spending much of their time on the ideal Thinkpad. The user discusses compatibility starting at the BIOS, Wi-Fi (Intel 7265) and Bluetooth support, keyboard...
by Cao | May 2, 2019 | FreeBSD, ZFS
Kris Moore, FreeBSD contributor and spear-header of the ZFS on FreeBSD project, announced a Call for Testing of the latest development built on FreeBSD 12-STABLE. You can download the ISO from the link below. In other recent news, a TrueOS inspired package base for...
by Cao | Apr 16, 2019 | Hardware, Server
User vermaden shows us his silent FreeBSD server build with a focus on redundant backups. He tests this out with two disks in ZFS mirror on an ASRock motherboard and Celeron CPU. He details his journey in making this quiet piece of machinery through the blog below. I...
by Cao | Mar 4, 2019 | FreeBSD, Video, ZFS
FreeBSD contributor Allan Jude gives a presentation on ZFS Boot Environments and upgrading remote machines at the latest FOSDEM 19. Click the play button below to tune in: Using boot environments for atomic in-place upgrades Describe a system of using ZFS Boot...
