Has anybody have any experience with TrueOS? If so any thoughts, pro and cons? Thanks in advance!

IIRC, it use to named, PC-BSD. I've used it and thought highly of it, but haven't had much luck with the last couple of releases. I haven't used it, and probably won't, since they changed the name.

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thanks, when I saw it; I was interested just never had a chance to play with it and to find out if it's worth it!!

I used it a bit in a VM when it was PCBSD. It worked quite nicely. It is very much designed for desktop usage.

Mary at SMLR runs it regularly and speaks well of it.

many thanks

I just tried it and it worked ok, I am more used to Debian, I on and off install and remove FreeBSD/PCBSD because they can't get pass the Xorg part on my Lenovo Thinkpad, without a GUI I find quite hard to use it. TrueOS is more polished and more usable with a working GUI, but still there are something not working properly, for example Thunderbird crashed when configuring a Gmail a/c with imap, that doesn't happen on Debian, also the system update non responsive, the time clock is not settable on the GUI, looks like the Lumia is far from completed...etc., may be just my own problem due to inexperience with FreeBSD

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The *BSDs are not as quick as many Linux distributions to add new hardware drivers (modules) so it might very well be your hardware or, as you said, it could be your lack of experience with BSD.

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Must be

I haven't tried it since it changed from PcBSD to TrueOS but I ran the last two releases as PcBSD for a little over a year and never ran into any major issues other than the Nvidia driver from their repo occasionally uninstalling itself on a reboot but even that stopped happening after a OS upgrade.
All in all it was a solid Operating System when I used it.

I also put in on a VM a few weeks ago. Looked very good.

There have been some comments on Distrowatch recently. This may be worth reading. There is also this comment on the OpenRC init software.

I thought I had remembered a more general review on Distrowatch but I can't currently find it.

I spent last weekend futzing with TrueOS and/or FreeBSD on sdb
I found an lvm-something on sda1 after the carnage, and that kinda made me upset
since I know what the diffs are from sda/sdb and where boot loader 'goes'.
I tried updating and not updating grub on sda1.
I tried sdb for boot loader and updating grub on sda1.
I tried ZFS and UFS with attention to where and what I was installing.
I tried encryption, and none on sdb.

Near as I can reckon, grub hates {U,Z}FS
And that's the best I got as I did not get very far. Meh.

8 installs with those 2 OSs.
I have both in Vbox and that's where I'll play.

I got bored, again, and sought a challenge.
I was challenged, but I did not succeed at dual-booting with LM17

Well, at least I have the memories.
Just another Saturday?

Your Linux device nodes (sdb, sda1, etc) are irrelevant to FreeBSD. FreeBSD requires a primary partition on an MBR in order to create a FreeBSD partition (or a GPT). This is in turn subdivided into slices (partitions in Linux) and the OS is installed there.

I don't know anything about grub, but it's a GNU/Linux bootloader. You might be able to get it to 'chainload' to the FreeBSD bootloader, but to my knowledge it's not possible, or at least not straightforward, to get it to boot the FreeBSD kernel directly.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook...roduction.html