26Apr 2023 by Jim Blaich

Rock Solid BSD (FreeBSD 13.2) with KDE Plasma (and including video acceleration setup)

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Note: FreeBSD 14 is due out in the middle of this year. Note: FreeBSD has a linux compatibility layer as well as support for wine. It has jails. Jails is a tool similar to containers. BSD does not support LXC as LXC means Linux containers. The video linked below walks you through downloading and the install FreeBSD and then XORG and then X11 with KDE Plasma. Since the video does this and since I already did it I have not included those steps. The install was near flawless, albeit somewhat dated in the installer's UX (user experience). As well since the video shows the person installing it into a container it does not cover configuring video hardware acceleration. I added that at the bottom of this guide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzIWXdcrK5I sudo does…
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26Apr 2023 by Jim Blaich

Upon boot BSD spams that the file system is read-only

BSD, rc.conf, read-only
Upon booting my BSD system, I encountered repeated error messages indicating that the file system is read-only. The specific message displayed was: "/usr/sbin/rsysrc: cannot create /etc/rc.conf: Read-only file system." Yesterday, I spent considerable time exploring programs I use on Linux to see if they could function on BSD. My goal was to determine if BSD could replace Linux on at least one of my main desktop computers, provided the necessary tools were available. One such program I wanted to install was tuptime, which tracks system uptime and provides statistics like the longest uptime, longest downtime, and other related metrics. I installed tuptime from the BSD repository. At the end of the installation, a message instructed me to add a couple of entries to the /etc/rc.conf file. I followed the instructions…
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