I have been on and off Linux since the disaster Windows 8, I have been hopping and hopping and hopping until I used MX Linux, but the direction the whole Linux stuff is taking had kind of made me search of something still open but well documented and central. I know that most of the consoles of Sony and Nintendo do use some parts of FreeBSD with ps5 being new and ps4 and switch in production. I have no idea if Android uses some components of FreeBSD along its Linux chassis.

As a guy who wants to use GhostBSD for web browsing and maybe VScode, how does it compare and is it good?

I am asking before I start downloading it for Ventoy. Love some good discussion, thanks.

Hey all. I have an Asrock AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB GPU here in my main system and I'd like to run either GhostBSD or FreeBSD proper to mess around with FreeBSD on good hardware (CPU is a Ryzen 9 5950X), but in the past when I'd run FreeBSD 13.x the support just wasn't there. Has anyone here tried one of the newer RX 7000 series GPUs on GhostBSD/Vanilla FreeBSD?

Thanks in advance.

I've tried installing GhostBSD on my Macbook Pro Mid 2017 model, but it doesn't seem to detect the keyboard and trackpad, I had to use a USB keyboard and mouse.

I decided to ditch windows because of windows 11 and went to Feodra Linux. I tried distro hopping by Fedora was the distro I always ended up back at but then I discovered BSD. I looked into it and thought that BSD was pretty cool and tried to install FreeBSD… I failed twice and couldn’t figure out why and decided to try again spring break. It is now spring break and instead of trying and failing again Im taking a different route on GhostBSD today. I will learn more about FreeBSD through GhostBSD and when Im ready Imma try FreeBSD again! Wish me luck gang. Anyways Im happy that I got KDE up and running with a cute rice for r/unixporn .

I am having trouble with the Nix package manager. I tried to install brave and Viscord as a test after installation and channel set up and i get the same error

ghostman@ghostman-ghostbsd ~> sudo nix-env -iA nixpkgs.brave

error:

       … while evaluating a branch condition

         at /nix/store/lzr8x40593rlbmn1isfr8hdskq9hhm2f-nixpkgs-23.11-darwin/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix:64:9:

           63|       go = pred: n:

           64|         if n == len

             |         ^

           65|         then rnul pred


       … while calling the 'length' builtin

         at /nix/store/lzr8x40593rlbmn1isfr8hdskq9hhm2f-nixpkgs-23.11-darwin/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/booter.nix:62:13:

           61|     let

           62|       len = builtins.length list;

             |             ^

           63|       go = pred: n:


       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full trace)


       error: Unknown kernel: freebsd

I am not aware of how to solve the first error and what it means, but i understand the second error that it does not support the freebsd kernel.

Can you explain how to solve this issue?

and.

Does the second error not show up on freebsd kernel supported nix packages and how do i find them?

I've tried BSD many times, always failed to get a desktop functioning. This is what I wanted! Resurrected an old AMD APU, quad core with 32Gig Ram, and a 1TB SSD, and did a full install. This runs fast! Like! And it's done on an apparently shoe-string budget too. Certainly worth a $5/month sponsorship. Keep up the good work

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It might be obvious for long time BSD users, but I failed to find the correct spot in the documentation about how to install all the required development files.

For some reason one can install the 'gcc' meta package and a matching gcc binary package. But in the end even the simplest, often cited hello_world.c fails to compile because /usr/include/stdio.h is missing.

What needs to be done to install the libc development files?

See https://www.ghostbsd.org/news/GhostBSD_24.01.1_Now_Available for more details.

Also, read carefully about how to upgrade your pool

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It is a little late, but here is the report: https://www.ghostbsd.org/news/December_2023_finance_report.

Thank you all for your support.

I am trying to get gaming working on my new GhostBSD install. I managed to get steam installed alright. I am not quite sure if the standard proton method will work like it does in Linux, I saw in the package messages you are supposed to follow some procedure that doesn't seem to work. Anyway I tried a Linux game for now and the performance is not acceptable, basically a slideshow to navigate the menus even. Why is this happening?

Edit: should probably note I am on an AMD RX 6700 XT.

Using the latest build of GhostBSD - all updates have been applied.

I have installed Chirp - a software application that allows a computer to program frequenceis to a handheld radio using a USB cord for communication.

When attemtping to use the Chirp software - I get the following error

$ [Errno 13] could not open port /dev/cuaU0: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/dev/cuaU0'

I am guessing that the specified port needs to be given permission for access (read/write) - or something to that effect.

How would I accomplish this?

I've installed GhostBSD 23.10.1 in a VirtualBox vm on a Win10 PC. I had problems installing the virtualbox-ose-additions software. Without detailing those problems, I finally ended up deleting the package and trying to install the port. This was the result:

root@ghost:/usr/ports/virtualbox-ose # make install clean
make: "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk" line 1178: Unable to determine OS version.  Either define OSVERSION, install /usr/include/sys/param.h or define SRC_BASE

I reinstalled the package and followed the instructions in the installation notes, so I'm good as far as VirtualBox is concerned, but I went back to ports and tried to install zim (/usr/ports/deskutils/zim) and threw the same error.

Am I doing something wrong? Or incompletely? Or can someone tell me what I should put in those parameters?

See https://www.ghostbsd.org/news/November_2023_finance_report for the details.

I am doing a package upgrade and website.

I'm new to GhostBSD, but I've been a long time Linux user. So far, I love how GhostBSD works on my laptop.

I have an Elgato Stream Deck XL. I was wondering if anyone has been able to get an Elgato Stream Deck working in GhostBSD or FreeBSD. I haven't found a whole lot on it. I know it works in Linux, though not officially supported by Elgato. On NixOS, I use Streamdeck-UI.

So far, my attempts at getting it to work have been unsuccessful but I'd love to get this working. I do see FreeBSD sees it when I use usbconfig.

Were the sponsors list on the web page hacked? It looks more like a little league ball park sponsor list (what's up with all the concrete companies? lol) than a tech project.

See https://www.ghostbsd.org/news/October_2023_finance_report for the details.

Hi guys,

Noob to Ghost and trying it out as a VM. I installed it as a Boxes guest on my Archlinux-based distro. Now the VM is giving me low screen resolution b/c its using defaults for undetected display. does not recognize my display and gives it a poor setup. Can anyone offer pointers? Thanks

See https://ghostbsd-documentation-portal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/upgrading-guide.html.
Feel free to contribute to it.

See the details at https://www.ghostbsd.org/news/GhostBSD_23.10.1_Now_Available.