100th video - Hi from FreeBSD 14.0!

I've decided to do something different for the 100th video, recording this video from #FreeBSD 14.0 running on #ThinkPad T430 machine. Initially, I installed FreeBSD 13.1 on this machine in Feb 2023 and had the plan to record many FreeBSD-related videos. However, due to some odd circumstances I had to postpone it. Hopefully, this time can move forward with it.

[@zhongj]

I was looking into enabling widevine in Chrome and it's pretty simple by installing the cdm package as well as installing the port after restarting the PC you should have widevine enabled.

[@eulondon]

Trying to fix OpenBSD acpi on my lenovo V14 it doesn't detect battery or ac adapter. Something very strange so I'm playing around FreeBSD and man so hard. OpenBSD is so noob friendly that now everything seems so hard and overly complicated just for the sake of being complicated it seems.

[@AdrianoWotan]

How to enable Wi-Fi on FreeBSD ?
If it's possible, it would be nice explain this on a new video.

[@TheOpenBSDguy]

I will create a video about it

[@scottroche5551]

Hi, it's a bit of a pain that i3blocks is not in the OpenBSD repo. However, I found a Github repo that's super easy to build on OpenBSD. I'm not able to post a link here. Is there some way I can send it to you? Cheers

[@TheOpenBSDguy]

You can drop an email. It's in the channel description 🙂

[@tylerdean980]

I think on FreeBSD they prefer that you upgrade in consecutive order rather than jumping like that. I'm using FreeBSD 14.0 right now, I like it okay but the RAM use is insane with ZFS. I would just use UFS on the desktop, but, the installer doesn't offer encryption unless you're using ZFS. At least I have the RAM to spare. I have a machine that I want to run OpenBSD on, but the installer kernel panics, it's only on that machine, I'm not really sure what's happening. . .

[@nikgolinar4378]

ZFS is known to take a lot of RAM even when it doesn’t utilise it, if i recall correctly the default metric on freebsd is 80% the systems RAM or 2GB, whichever is higher. this parameter is tunable. it doesnt keep the memory to itself though, if nothing gets cached ZFS will gladly release it for other applications to use

[@tylerdean980]

@@nikgolinar4378 I'm running KDE and with ZFS I idle around 10GB, which is a little crazy, but I have 64GB on that machine, so you're saying if I had less RAM to begin with it would use less because it's percentage based?

[@TheOpenBSDguy]

I heard that ZFS uses more ram, that's one of the reasons I opted for UFS instead

[@nikgolinar4378]

@@tylerdean980 Not really, what I mean is that ZFS will reserve an amount of RAM for itself like 10GB as on your system, even if in reality it only needs 3. The other 7 GB of the RAM it reserved (which is way faster than disks) will be used to store the files most commonly read from the disk(s) to speed up access to them. But if (for example, on your system with 64GB) other applications need to use more than the available 54gb, and ZFS knows it only needs 3, it will gladly give the 7 GB of ram it overreserved to the other applications

[@nikgolinar4378]

@@tylerdean980 well, I just installed 13.2 with KDE on a 16GB RAM system and it uses 6GB idling at the desktop - so they either changed the metric, or more likely, i misremembered that it was 80%. So yeah, on a system with less RAM ZFS would take up a smaller percentage (assuming that your 10GB usage is just KDE and nothing else, too)

[@gjsb6wfg995]

I really don't see a point in running freebsd over obsd

[@tylerdean980]

Package availability is the biggest one, openbsd is better from a system administrator standpoint I think