A FreeBSD user Tries NetBSD 10-RC5

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RoboNuggie

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@rudyleplane727 10 ай бұрын

You truly make computing exciting again! Thank you always for sharing your time and making videos on FreeBSD

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@VK2FVAX 10 ай бұрын

This one was on NetBSD.

@phonewithoutquestion80 10 ай бұрын

NetBSD is on my target for "truly minimalist" systems to run with a graphical environment. A real champion of function over form, for sure.

@YetAnotherSysAdmin 10 ай бұрын

The BSD's sure are comforting. It always feels like coming home when logging into a BSD machine. On the BSD journey since 2009. Great video!

@charleswilliams8368 10 ай бұрын

This looks like a good alternative to FreeBSD, if it ever becomes necessary. Thanks for covering the other BSDs now and then.

@esra_erimez 10 ай бұрын

Hello RoboNuggie! Wow, my dad used 386BSD when Bill Jolitz wrote about it in Dr. Dobbs. Its come a long way since then. Thanks for a good video my dad and I can enjoy together.

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

Your dad sounds like a cool guy Esra.... thanks for dropping by :-)

@acex222 10 ай бұрын

Creepy AI pfp bro.

@mccuba48 10 ай бұрын

I gave NetBSD a try long ago in the early 2000's on a Fujitsu Lifebook P2110 laptop and was the most responsive OS on that particular hardware

@gezley100 10 ай бұрын

NetBSD is a nice system, especially as a firewall, VPN endpoint, web server, mail server. A barebones installation takes up only about 200MB of disk space. No services are running by default, except perhaps Postfix. There are unique features : the ability to compile and install software as an unprivileged user, for example. It's a nice platform to run Xen virtual machines -- very lightweight and secure. And blazing fast. The graphics stack in 10 is at the same level as Linux 5.6, so much improved over what it was just a few years ago. I hope you enjoy it, and looking forward to more videos on this much neglected but cleverly engineered operating system.

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

That was enlightening.... so much I don't know.... whilst I will always be a FreeBSD channel, I will dip my toes as really NetBSD and FreeBSD are siblings of sorts....

@gezley100 10 ай бұрын

@@RoboNuggie something rarely mentioned regarding NetBSD is its security by default. Not through any feature in particular, but through its emphasis on code correctness. Far too many reviews trot out the stale old cliches about how NetBSD can be run on anything from a toaster to a supercomputer, but there are far more compelling reasons to choose NetBSD nowadays. Your review not included, by the way!

@kylewillett9817 10 ай бұрын

@@gezley100 Very cool, I didn't know that! You always hear about OpenBSD as the secure one and FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD as the fast ones. I am hopeful that by NetBSD 10.1 or 11.0 or something like that I can have good support for my graphics on a ZEN 2 CPU so I can give NetBSD a fair shake!

@kylewillett9817 10 ай бұрын

Very cool, I have been wanting to give NetBSD it's first fair shake since series 7. Unfortunately, all my computers save one old busted one that is too old to run NetBSD 10.0. This video let me see what 10 is all about! Thanks again RoboNuggie for all you do sir!

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this.... your computer collection sounds like mine.... :-)

@VK2FVAX 10 ай бұрын

Being a NetBSD daily driver as my main desktop, I can assure you that NetBSD is good for your soul ;) You may yet be saved. Perhaps next time you can go into pkgsrc and how to build the apps. I think that'd be a great video for the masses. Binary packages are great, but nothing makes you look 10x more intelligent as your boss conveniently walks past after you've kicked off a build of something trivial you want to use and he gets to see all the build logs flying up the screen.

@nalinux 10 ай бұрын

I love NetBSD. Years ago it was the only Os I could use on a cute Sparc Station IPC instead of the old Solaris version. I think I even played Quake 3 on my bi Celeron with a Voodoo 3, with the guy who developed pkgbin and others.

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

Now that I would have liked to see..... thank you for this!

@MaverickSF 9 ай бұрын

Congratulations man!!! I'm returning to the BSD world and I loved your video. Thanks!!!

@RoboNuggie 9 ай бұрын

Welcome back!

@starc0w 9 ай бұрын

Great! Thank you so much for doing this! 🎉

@RoboNuggie 9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@gezley100 10 ай бұрын

You can select menu items by clicking the appropriate letter -- a for first option, for example, x for last option in the list.

@dogzdude 23 күн бұрын

Thanks Robo! I acquired an older netbook....remember those....very small laptops with low power cpu etc... Anyway, I'm gonna give NetBSD at go on it. NetBSD on a netbook! 🙂

@tehandroidmaster 10 ай бұрын

NetBSD's internet documentation leaves much to be desired so many years later, but thankfully man 8 afterboot started with NetBSD and got passed along to OpenBSD as well.

@wildmanjeff42 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video Christopher ! I've never tried NetBSD. I am more of a FreeBSD purist... It's hard not to be with great documentation and all your videos !

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

You know how to say the right things Jeff :-) FreeBSD and NetBSD are related, so I like you are a FreeBSD purist and I can use this and not feel guilty :-)

@subynut 10 ай бұрын

That brings me back to my early days of Mandrake Linux! Very simple GUI with very little flare and just enough functionality to do the bare bones of work! I do have a question, though: what is NetBSD's targeted audience? Like, is it more for embedded systems like firewall devices and such?

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

NetBSD's target audience? I think it's more or less for anyone that might want it....it seems to have an eclectic audience to say the least :-)

@subynut 10 ай бұрын

@@RoboNuggie Ok. I might give it a go and play with it some. See how I like it. 😊

@320k 10 ай бұрын

"The NetBSD site states that: “The NetBSD Project provides a freely available and redistributable system that professionals, hobbyists, and researchers can use in whatever manner they wish”. It is also an ideal system if you want to learn Unix, mainly because of its adherence to standards (one of the project goals) and because it works equally well on the latest PC hardware as well as on hardware which is considered obsolete by many other operating systems." (From the NetBSD guide.)

@DV-ml4fm 10 ай бұрын

They have version 10.6 now. I noticed that the download speed in netbsd is much slower than in freebsd.

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

Ah, I didn't notice that....

@DV-ml4fm 10 ай бұрын

@RoboNuggie Maybe my internet was acting up that day. Anyway I am a linux user but am trying out the BSDs. And I like it. Sure, there's a learning curve on how things are done in the BSDs but is manageable. I learned alot of bsd from your excellent tutorials. Keep up the great work. 👍👍👍

@skinwalker69420 10 ай бұрын

Might move my OpenBSD Minecraft server to NetBSD. It looks interesting.

@inzMBL 10 ай бұрын

wow... 1995 says hi :)

@VK2FVAX 10 ай бұрын

2024 says "Still goin strong"

@tornadot2025 6 ай бұрын

I love NetBSD, but the desktop would randomly freeze up and become unresponsive after a long period of use. I could never figure out why it did that. Sadly, I ended up moving on because of it. Does it still do that? I would love to give it a spin again because I haven't used it since the 8.0 release.

@fmsilva11 10 ай бұрын

How to install driver for Realtek network 2.5gbit RTL8125B-CG on freebsd ?

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

There is some info here.... forums.freebsd.org/threads/realtek-rtl-8125-2-5gbps-lan-controller.79710/

@krisss6462 10 ай бұрын

I have to try it.

@bobr9731 10 ай бұрын

Nice to see how the half lives lol. Its a fast desktop too

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

It's an interesting OS for sure...

@ximalas 10 ай бұрын

I believe Europe/London would have been a better choice for timezone.

@ogis 10 ай бұрын

Nice video, but how about nvidia drivers?

@RoboNuggie 10 ай бұрын

I'll look at that when NetBSD is officially released.... which hopefully is soon....

@ogis 10 ай бұрын

@@RoboNuggie Thank you very much. I look forward to the review 🙂

@TetrisMaster512 10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, Nouveau is the only option for nvidia cards on NetBSD, nvidia hasn't ported their proprietary drivers to NetBSD. If you plan on trying to game on the OS, (older, as in supported by Linux 5.6 from early 2020) Intel or AMD GPUs are really the only solid options for now.

@ogis 10 ай бұрын

@@TetrisMaster512 Thank you for the info. I think i will stick with FreeBSD 13.3 :)