Hey, I'm thinking on switching to FreeBSD for my laptop, but I'm not sure if it'd be wise to do so.I would mainly use emacs, clisp, ghc, cc (or gcc if possible) and a couple X tools, like firefox. I wouldn't mind reading the manuals and shit, but I wonde

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Anonymous 11/07/14 (Fri) 01:00:35 No.444

Hey, I'm thinking on switching to FreeBSD for my laptop, but I'm not sure if it'd be wise to do so.
I would mainly use emacs, clisp, ghc, cc (or gcc if possible) and a couple X tools, like firefox. I wouldn't mind reading the manuals and shit, but I wonder if it would actually be a good idea, if it can natively run the aforementioned software or if it wouldn't consume too many resources.
What do you think?

Anonymous 11/07/14 (Fri) 01:01:06 No.445

OP here.
I would, by the way, use PCBSD I think

Anonymous 11/07/14 (Fri) 05:39:38 No.446

DragonFlyBSD > FreeBSD > PC-BSD

Anonymous 11/07/14 (Fri) 17:41:27 No.447

anyone tried ghostbsd?

what's it like?

Anonymous 11/12/14 (Wed) 12:07:54 No.450

>>447
FreeBSD with a default DE. I recommend you learn how to install ports on FreeBSD or OpenBSD instead. Preferably the latter.

Anonymous 02/05/15 (Thu) 15:21:00 No.555

>>444
>Hey, I'm thinking on switching to FreeBSD for my laptop, but I'm not sure if it'd be wise to do so.

I'm using FreeBSD on a laptop right now. It's prettycomfy.jpg.

>I would mainly use emacs, clisp, ghc, cc (or gcc if possible) and a couple X tools, like firefox.
All of these things can be built from ports, and AFAIK there should be binary packages if you really want.

>if it can natively run the aforementioned software
The only thing I've really missed from GNU+Linux is the rename utility; there is no equivalent in the ports collection (there are some half-assed, barely-useful clones though).

FreeBSD can emulate the Linux kernel, so anything that hasn't been ported will probably run okay… Probably…

>if it wouldn't consume too many resources.
This really depends on what you install; obviously KDE is going to be a lot more resource-intensive than running emacs exclusively in text-only mode.

>What do you think?
Assuming it supports your hardware, FreeBSD is a good choice. I can't say for sure about its derivatives (PC-BSD, GhostBSD, etc).

ext4 support is pure shit though, if you have any ext4 drives you will almost certainly need to reformat them.

Anonymous 02/07/15 (Sat) 00:51:41 No.563

>>447
Ghostbsd is a pleb version of freebsd it has a graphical installer and default de like one anon said.