BSDNow 180: Illuminating the Desktop

2017/02/08 by Justin Sherrill

BSDNow 180: Illuminating the Desktop

BSDNow is a day early, but it has an interview with Ken Moore about Lumina, TrueOS (nee PC-BSD) and desktop BSD in general.

6 Replies to “BSDNow 180: Illuminating the Desktop”

Anonymous says:

2017/02/08 at 15:02

Haven’t seen anything mentioned about BSDploy. Curious to hear your thought on the technology (jail provisioning for FreeBSD).

http://docs.bsdploy.net/en/latest/
Anonymous says:

2017/02/08 at 16:39

Looks like Hacker News has a discussion on BSDploy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600937
Slade says:

2017/02/08 at 17:40

How is the current status of TrueOS with SecureBoot on recent laptop (2016) ? Don’t want to use that Win10crap :(
Justin Sherrill says:

2017/02/08 at 17:50

Anonymous – I haven’t looked at BSDploy before, but it’s a good idea. Containers are in some ways just a reimplementation of jails made lightweight, so containerizing jails makes sense.

Slade – I don’t know of any easy way to tell, cause I don’t think (though I am not sure) the TrueOS install CD can be booted as a live image. You may have to install to see the state of full support. However, since TrueOS is based on FreeBSD 11, and I think FreeBSD 11 has SecureBoot/UEFI support, it seems like it should work.
Anonymous says:

2017/02/08 at 17:59

Apparently, TrueOS is “Based on FreeBSD-CURRENT.” Which ATM is 12.0.
Just try the live boot and report back, cheers
mer says:

2017/02/09 at 04:09

12 Current with the graphics work (Matt Macy et al). If SecureBoot works in out of the box 12-Current, it should work on TrueOS. There are ISO for DVD and img files for USB so you can make bootable media, it has a Live mode you could try.

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