BSD host of issues on reboot from fresh install
02-23-2021, 12:19 PM
I've got a rockpro on order. When it arrives I'm going to try and set it up as a FreeBSD NAS and media server. I'll give it a go anyway.
FreeBSD works very well as a desktop machine. The ULE2 scheduler was actually designed with interactivity in mind, and I think it does a better job than the Linux kernel. For example, a stressed system will always context switch to a VT on FreeBSD but a stressed Linux system can completely freeze up. That's my experience of it anyway.
I had a FreeBSD machine connected to my TV for about 10 years until I needed netflix ( you can now run google chrome with the linuxulator easily in 13.0 with an Ubuntu base so I need to revisit this). I might be biased but it always felt like video playback in XBMC and youtube was smoother on the BSD machine compared to Manjaro which I followed up with.
Once ARM becomes Tier 1 on FreeBSD there won't be any need for this continuous image building. Has anyone tried building world on FreeBSD on the rockpro?
FreeBSD works very well as a desktop machine. The ULE2 scheduler was actually designed with interactivity in mind, and I think it does a better job than the Linux kernel. For example, a stressed system will always context switch to a VT on FreeBSD but a stressed Linux system can completely freeze up. That's my experience of it anyway.
I had a FreeBSD machine connected to my TV for about 10 years until I needed netflix ( you can now run google chrome with the linuxulator easily in 13.0 with an Ubuntu base so I need to revisit this). I might be biased but it always felt like video playback in XBMC and youtube was smoother on the BSD machine compared to Manjaro which I followed up with.
Once ARM becomes Tier 1 on FreeBSD there won't be any need for this continuous image building. Has anyone tried building world on FreeBSD on the rockpro?