by Cao | May 29, 2020 | Blog, FreeBSD, Notebook
FreeBSD contributor Colin Percival documents his experience in getting FreeBSD operating system running functionally on a Dell Latitude 7390 notebook.He walks us through initial FreeBSD configuration, setting up drivers, desktop configuration, KDE, and then points out...
by Cao | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog
Long time FreeBSD user unixsheikh talks about his FreeBSD journey, from discovering it back in 1999 or 2000 from the book The Complete FreeBSD, how he came to learn about UNIX and his familiarity with GNU/Linux already. Check out their story below, as well as a reddit...
by Cao | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog, Hardware
User eerielinux writes about what lies ahead in the year 2020, discussing his experiences with RISC-V hardware and FreeBSD on SPARC64 architecture, ARM64 (Cavium ThunderX), HardenedBSD, illumos, and others. Check out their blog below to read about what’s in...
by Cao | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog, KDE
FreeBSD contributor Adriaan de Groot, known for his work on KDE/FreeBSD. discusses his end of the year run for FreeBSD related projects. He outlines the progress made with KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma, Qt6, as well as his work on getting Calamares working with FreeBSD....
by Cao | Jul 2, 2019 | Blog, Server
User vermaden is back again with another in-depth FreeBSD post, this time detailing his enterprise FreeBSD solution with a whopping 1PB storage. He shows you his hardware setup — a TYAN thunder and SuperMicro SuperStorage, and talks about the software —...
by Cao | Jun 27, 2019 | Blog, FreeBSD, Tutorial
User Jacques Foucry walks us through his journey of installing FreeBSD 12.0 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X280 notebook. He starts from configuring UEFI, rc.conf, hardware config, all the way to Xorg. See the link below for the full set of instructions. He wrote the entire...