Do not know anything about Freebsd or Ghostbsd, do not think I have ever
used BSD.
It is a bit like Void. Does not have ext filesystem. Kernel is very highly regarded.
More tightly controlled than Linux. Has all the same dte’s as Linux, so you would not notice the differences under the hood. Its disk partitioning is strange, but otherwise installer is easy to use.
I looked them up. They are not common in Australia. Most of our roofs are Colorbond steel sheeting or terracotta tiles.
You have a much warmer climate than we do. Thought about
using metal, but just cannot justify the expense. Some of my
shop shingles are over 20yrs old, another 20yrs and we will be in
heaven, hopefully.
and also concrete tiles (painted to look like glazed ceramic) - at least in WA anyway…
I love the sound of rain on a tin roof (colourbond steel) - but - I’d rather get locked out of a tiled roofed house - because they’re a lot easier to get back into when you stupidly lock yourself out! And I have, more than once!
I remember my grandparents had a house in the Hunter Valley (Wallsend, near Newcastle) - well it was actually a chook farm (poultry farm) and it had two houses on it (plus my grandpa’s plumbing workshop) - my aunt and her kids lived in the front house, and when I stayed there, I stayed with my grandma in the “further back house”.
Anyway - the house my grandparents lived in further back had steps up to the roof, and the roof was mostly flat and covered in “tar-paper”… Don’t see much of that around these days - if at all…
Is that what they call malthoid?
We had it on a covered outdoor area when I was a kid. Grandfather used to melt tar and pour it over it
We call that a torch-down, mostly used on flat roofs or with roofs that are less than a
4/12 ptich. Shingles are laid on either 15lb or 30lb felt, or synthetic paper, felt comes in
3 ft by 100 ft rolls and synthetic paper is 4ft up to 500 ft rolls, A new shingle roof for my
shop will cost me around $7000.00, any metal roof will be twice that.
My shop has an 8/12 ptich, which was fine, when I built the structer, but at 75yrs and a balance
porblem, it is not idea. I know the why I built it that way, but it has not been a wise decision.
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The roof on here is corrugated fibro sheeting made back in the days when things were made to last forever, asbestos lasts and lasts.
It can break up in a hailstorm, especially low pitch roofs.
Thats very appropriate. Grandfather once had the pot of tar catch fire up on the roof.
People used to tar galvanised iron roofs too, because ‘gal’ rusts rapidly. Zincalume is much more rust resistant. We have a machinery shed that is ‘gal’ and it is nearly rusted out. Replacing that with zincalume is going to be expensive.
That is very easy to do when putting down a torch-down, I know of several buildings in
my home town that were victims of a torch-down. On the other hand, their are several
dilapidated buildings that are in need of burning.
Qemu will run on windows 10 and 11 and on MacOS Monterey and Ventura running either Intel or Silicon and it doesn’t have an ext4 FS requirement. The only thing that matters about the file system is that the host can read it.
@Kenneth_Dotson
Yeah, I know, even tried it on W10 once, just really do not care to try again.
I am using qemu and vbox with Gentoo, let us just say it is something to play with.
I am now trying to configure XP to run in vbox, but I cannot find a browser to work with
itsfoss.community, all https certificates are being rejected, even with google chrome.
I am thinking that itsfoss only supports 64bit browsers, although it says it supports chrome
32bit.
So how would it cope with BSD , which has only UFS or ZFS filesystems. A Linux host would not be able to read either of those.
I have used BSD in Vbox, but have not tried with qemu/kvm
I thought as long as a browser supports HTML, in the appropriate version, then it should be able to cope with any website communication?
if not
what other non-html communication are websites using?
I cant see why 32bit is relevant, unless it implies a very old html version?
I’ve used FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Net Bsd In QEMU. They all work reasonably well. Display resolution and using the virtual mouse are sometimes tricky. The display issue is usually just a matter of installing the right driver and the qemu-guest-agent. The mouse is a more persistent problem and I usually just redirect my USB mouse to the VM, which is, in a way, not a bad setup particularly on a laptop since the mouse is exclusively for the guest and the track pad for the host, there’s no capturing and releasing and the focus of the keyboard follows whichever pointing device clicked last.
For running BSD as a VM, I’d rank the QEMU / KVM stack second. The best platform for the BSD’s is, hands down, VMware. It just works with no special configuration other than installing VMware Tools and you just install that from the FreeBSD repo with pkg and like magic, everything works perfectly.
This was the last BSD I set up in VMware.
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