[HN Gopher] FreeBSD 12.3
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FreeBSD 12.3
Author : tosh
Score : 20 points
Date : 2021-12-08 20:09 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| chungy wrote:
| FreeBSD is an amazing operating system. I've started to use it
| with the 13.0 release and it never fails to impress me.
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| Everything is very well-documented, you get a fairly clean
| centralization of configuration, non-base OS software is
| installed by default in /usr/local while giving you the option to
| move it elsewhere if you so desire. 3rd party software config
| doesn't get intermixed with the OS.
|
| It's similar on the surface to Linux but you can really feel the
| totally different DNA it's composed of. Well worth looking over.
| petre wrote:
| Yes, it's great. I can't wait to update my 11.4 systems to
| 12.3.
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| Just make sure you use ZFS as a file system if you have enough
| memory because the tooling is great and you can resize or
| reconfigure your storage more easily, or mount it in Linux with
| ZoL. I recently had to relocate and grow a UFS partition on a
| VM and it was a bit of a pain compared to ext4 and gparted. Had
| to grow the qcow2 disk image, make another slice (partition) at
| the end, dump /usr onto that, remove the original /usr slice to
| make room to grow /var, create a new /usr, restore onto it,
| delete the partition that held the dump, grow the new /usr to
| fill up the empty space. With ZFS, the BSD slices holding UFS
| filesystems becone ZFS datasets, you have the full zpool free
| space available on all of them, just like when using a single
| partition, but it can also span multiple disks.
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