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FreeBSD Recently I installed and configured Freebsd on my HP-Envy laptop. It works fine, but not as good as my usual OS of choice (i.e. Ubuntu). The keys that control screen backlight aren't recognized by the kernel. The sound card needed some tweaking for the external speaker to work. Nivida driver refuses to work. It doesn’t provide JXF beyond version 8. Video streaming services aren’t supported natively. Desktop interface is very sluggish comparing to GhostBSD. Automount is very janky. I, however, enjoy the cleaness and the elegence of the underline operating sytsem. I do recommand people give it a go as their dedicated server system. Personally I think GhostBSD is the way to go if you are looking for a smoother desktop BSD experience. I did manage to get the protonmail bridge to work via Linux Binary Compatibility mode. Here is the process and commands that I used. Book Recommendation I recommand Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD if anyone is intere

Photo by  Max Ostrozhinskiy  on  Unsplash Few other titles that I thought of after reading book 7 of The Expanse book series: going to the past, a new pre-sequel. That’s how I felt at the end of the book. A start of an old beginning. I will explain why in this blog.