Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:40:31 -0400 From: Daniel Anderson <development@kd2ycu.com> To: Milan Obuch <freebsd-current@dino.sk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi! Available to help Message-ID: <E9DA40CD-543D-479C-A50E-848A226C9FF1@kd2ycu.com> In-Reply-To: <20250630161838.23196978.40034626.72116779@dino.sk> References: <3BE02ABD-776F-46AF-8266-12AB93AB0E50@kd2ycu.com> <20250628075502.48308911.40034626.82209601@dino.sk> <30CB7E73-AB81-4083-8173-6D95DF8098B9@kd2ycu.com> <20250630161838.23196978.40034626.72116779@dino.sk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > How are you accessing those VMs? You need some desktop PC or notebok > for this, I think... which OS does it run? You can set there additional > FreeBSD, either a VM or in dual boot mode… I run an M1 Macbook and SSH into my VMs. Support for M1 isn’t full as far as I can tell, which is also why I would be interested in helping as well…. > > Using FreeBSD as standard desktop is often not easy for setup (depends > on requirements), but helps greatly to understand the OS and various > quirks/issues and brings more experiences with it. So I’ve run various Linux distributions as my main desktop for a long time. At some point my workplace moved to macbooks for a variety of reasons, but essentially I install homebrew, run X, and remote into any VMs. I use Emacs + TRAMP to access files, and I’m really comfortable on the command line. I’m mostly interested in the console and not anything graphical (KDE/Gnome) >> I think the best thing for me would be to pick up small tasks to get >> my feet wet. I’m more familiar with Linux than FreeBSD but it’s >> interesting to learn, and I think picking up small tasks like bugs is >> a good way to get my feet wet. Also I’m happy to update >> documentation or test cases... > > A good way to start would be looking in official documents (project's > web site, man pages...) and maybe forums, mailing list archives for > some ideas, wiki,freebsd.org <http://freebsd.org/>; could be good resource as well. > > > Great tip, thank you! [-- Attachment #2 --] <html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><blockquote type="cite">How are you accessing those VMs? You need some desktop PC or notebok<br>for this, I think... which OS does it run? You can set there additional<br>FreeBSD, either a VM or in dual boot mode…</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I run an M1 Macbook and SSH into my VMs. Support for M1 isn’t full as far as I can tell, which is also why I would be interested in helping as well….</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Using FreeBSD as standard desktop is often not easy for setup (depends<br>on requirements), but helps greatly to understand the OS and various<br>quirks/issues and brings more experiences with it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So I’ve run various Linux distributions as my main desktop for a long time. At some point my workplace moved to macbooks for a variety of reasons, but essentially I install homebrew, run X, and remote into any VMs. I use Emacs + TRAMP to access files, and I’m really comfortable on the command line. </div><div><br></div><div>I’m mostly interested in the console and not anything graphical (KDE/Gnome)</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I think the best thing for me would be to pick up small tasks to get<br>my feet wet. I’m more familiar with Linux than FreeBSD but it’s<br>interesting to learn, and I think picking up small tasks like bugs is<br>a good way to get my feet wet. Also I’m happy to update<br>documentation or test cases...<br></blockquote><br>A good way to start would be looking in official documents (project's<br>web site, man pages...) and maybe forums, mailing list archives for<br>some ideas, wiki,<a href="http://freebsd.org/">freebsd.org</a> could be good resource as well.<div><br></div><div><br><br></div></blockquote>Great tip, thank you!</div></div></body></html>home | help
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