Anything FreeBSD related gets my attention. My most favoured operating system.
slyfox125 · 1h ago
Rock solid and plenty of ports. I use it for multiple ZFS file servers, which subsequently led me to utilizing Linux regularly, which then led to dropping Windows altogether. It sounds corny to say but FreeBSD changed my life is a measurable way.
ggm-at-algebras · 6h ago
Never played with kernel mods via packages but very tempted to start.
I have hopes of a path to a radically smaller kernel and loadables for the things not integrated by default. The end would be a path to a kernel Makefile specifying the minimum set, so a path from loadable to static, but with smaller state than generic and smaller critical dependency size.
vermaden · 6h ago
I believe you already played with /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/MINIMAL kernel?
ggm-at-algebras · 4h ago
Yes. Some time ago. Circumstances took me to TrueNAS Core BSD flavour which is regrettably retrograde, and I am about to rejoin the cleaner experience but the transition is .. scary. Making a smaller kernel is off to one side of my main intent which is to NOT lose my existing ZFS state!
vermaden · 1m ago
After TrueNAS CORE went dead and iXsystems focused on Linux based SCALE version the free and open source 'zVault' fork of TrueNAS CORE happened - https://zvault.io - its page here.
One of my buddies switched from TrueNAS SCALE to FreeBSD based zVault and is more then happy:
He does not have really high expectations - besides having about 2TB of data he runs one Bhyve VM with Linux 'Home Assistant' and one FreeBSD Jail with 'Plex Media Server'.
yjftsjthsd-h · 6h ago
Oh good, it does tie to the actual installed minor version. For a moment, I worried we would hit a situation where it would break the other way, with pkg immediately trying to install modules for the next minor version before it was installed.
I have hopes of a path to a radically smaller kernel and loadables for the things not integrated by default. The end would be a path to a kernel Makefile specifying the minimum set, so a path from loadable to static, but with smaller state than generic and smaller critical dependency size.
One of my buddies switched from TrueNAS SCALE to FreeBSD based zVault and is more then happy:
- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/truenas-core-versu...
He does not have really high expectations - besides having about 2TB of data he runs one Bhyve VM with Linux 'Home Assistant' and one FreeBSD Jail with 'Plex Media Server'.