My uni account was on HP-UX connected to a VT100.

Hi. How is freebsd for music production? I'm tempted by freebsd for zfs, but I'm not sure how the audio system is. I'll also read up on the current Linux compatibility layer.

zrythm is good, although I have never used it professionally

so, the guided zfs installer just makes mirrored efi partitions work?

Has anyone here used minipro on FreeBSD?

mek42: music production?

i have no idea, but what would you use ?

I'm testing reaper in linux now.

mek42: ok, maybe try inside a freebsd vm on your linux host ?

yes, I'm reading about bhyve vs kvm right now. I'm preparing to setup a used workstation I just purchased (my main machine died a month ago). I'm testing on Ubuntu on my kid's laptop. I want to use zfs and I keep thinking about freebsd for zfs.

I think I might just try to setup freebsd with bhyve for a windows VM and also experiment between linuxulator and linux VM

I feel a bit disorganized right now.

mek42: when you install freebsd, it will auto select zfs for you... you dont really need to know anything about it to get going..

unless you want to use raid, or add a second hdd and use zfs on it

or some geli stuff

but if you just want to try, it will just work

just like any other FS

mek42: and yes, if you want to use a vm, i recommend vm-bhyve..

but really, i have no idea about music production on bsd.. i would just go with windows =p

So I installed KDE on a new install. Then I opened up system settings, go into network settings, and to my surprise, I saw no network settings!

any specific reason to pick freebsd for music production ? or just testing out

proxy stuff, some other stuff, but no actual TCP settings or network interface info. What is up with that?

GoSox: no idea, how about ifconfig -a

also, freebsd usually asks you to configure netowrk during install.... unless it didnt detect your hardware.. which you will need to check by listing the devices and loading the proper driver...

what about just connecting to a new wifi network?

GoSox: no idea, maybe its a problem in KDE ?

who knows..

learn the console =p

console schmonsole!

also, if your wifi is slow, you can use wifibox

wifibox is a linux runnning inside bhyve with network passthru

HER: I want zfs and to do music. My windows machine just died. I'll probably end up with a windows VM.

I haven't tried freebsd yet. It's an itch, though probably not where I'll do the music all the time.

On the fence about freebsd/bhyve or linux/kvm

hi

I'm getting closer to being ready to install OS on my used workstation. I really need to decide what to do.

hi

mek42: let me decide for you. install OS on your workstation! let it be! :)

If I made a Linux jail for steam, would I need to do anything like gpu passthrough?

mek42: that I don't know

I'm inclined to try freebsd.

mek42: try both.

Isn't the linux subsystem a bit old? Never used it, but wouldn't it be better to use bhyve?

I only have 2 16x pci-e slots in my machine. One of them will by bifurcated for a 4x nvme card. I suppose my host graphics card could use the 8x pci-e slot

hmmm... also most of my gaming is 4x/grand strategy, not very graphics intensive. Maybe I could just try the emulated graphics until I get a second gpu for the machine. And just make 2 windows and 2 Linux VMs, one each for music creation and gaming.

I could share a common directory for documents on the freebsd host to the guest VMs, right?

making freebsd bootable usb drive now

hehe, I used the ubuntu startup disk creator and it said "now you can try or install ubuntu" at the end

^^ to make the freebsd install iso

mek42: you can share a common directory for documents yes.. and there are many options for that... nfs for example

also, i dont think you can passthrough with jails.. but on bhyve that is possible

you can passthrough gpu and hdd and maybe some other thing

networking passthrough is also possible ie wifibox