Will TrueOS support this MB?

[Edward78]

ASRock Mini-ITX Motherboard (B450 Gaming-ITX/AC), is TrueOS still around, worth it?

[BGL]

TrueOS is still around but is very much a server OS. The user friendly desktop project spun off as Project Trident but they recently announced they were going to migrate to become a GNU/Linux distro based off of Void Linux with the Lumina desktop that originally appeared under PC-BSD. https://project-trident.org/

 

If you want a BSD based desktop then you can build your own using FreeBSD or take a look at DragonFlyBSD or GhostBSD for a desktop oriented distro. If you want to really get into BSD I recommend Absolute FreeBSD by Michael W Lucas, great book - make sure you get the 3rd Edition.

 

No idea about your Mobo. I've only used FreeBSD on older Haswell era kit. But in my experience there are always little things that annoy when using a BSD based desktop. It's a bit like using GNU/Linux 10-15 years ago; but you end up learning quite a lot in the process

 

 

[Edward78]

Hmmm, odd they are ditching BSD wonder why? Well what is a good easy to use (Mint like) rolling release? Like Mate as a choice also.

[BGL]

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Hmmm, odd they are ditching BSD wonder why?

It's explained here: https://project-trident.org/post/os_migration/

basically it's easier to build a fully working desktop OS using Linux instead of BSD and they can't wait for FreeBSD & TrueOS to catch up (there are a lot more active developers adding new features/hardware support to Linux than FreeBSD).

 

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Well what is a good easy to use (Mint like) rolling release?

For a BSD? DragonFly or Ghost they are easy to use to a point but are still behind most Linux distro's in terms of hardware support:

https://ghostbsd.org/

https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/01/11/24004.html

 

For GNU/Linux? I tend not worry about rolling release for my main machines as I want stability and being able to find quick answers to any problems over new features; 'set and forget' has it's advantages. If you like that direction then any Debian/Ubuntu derivative. Personally I like Kubuntu, KDE Neon or Mint Cinnamon for my main desktop.

 

For proper rolling release I used to run Solus and liked it, at the time it was especially good for Steam and gaming. The community and core team is much smaller however than Ubuntu so sometimes I'd run into issues no one else had, or at least posted fixes for.

https://getsol.us/home/

 

These days if I had to go rolling release then I'd personally opt to try Manjaro as there seems to enough people running it that finding other with similar problems/questions (and hopefully answers) would be likely.

https://manjaro.org/

 

[Edward78]

4 hours ago, BGL said:

It's explained here: https://project-trident.org/post/os_migration/

basically it's easier to build a fully working desktop OS using Linux instead of BSD and they can't wait for FreeBSD & TrueOS to catch up (there are a lot more active developers adding new features/hardware support to Linux than FreeBSD).

 

For a BSD? DragonFly or Ghost they are easy to use to a point but are still behind most Linux distro's in terms of hardware support:

https://ghostbsd.org/

https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/01/11/24004.html

 

For GNU/Linux? I tend not worry about rolling release for my main machines as I want stability and being able to find quick answers to any problems over new features; 'set and forget' has it's advantages. If you like that direction then any Debian/Ubuntu derivative. Personally I like Kubuntu, KDE Neon or Mint Cinnamon for my main desktop.

 

For proper rolling release I used to run Solus and liked it, at the time it was especially good for Steam and gaming. The community and core team is much smaller however than Ubuntu so sometimes I'd run into issues no one else had, or at least posted fixes for.

https://getsol.us/home/

 

These days if I had to go rolling release then I'd personally opt to try Manjaro as there seems to enough people running it that finding other with similar problems/questions (and hopefully answers) would be likely.

https://manjaro.org/

 

Which rolling is most like Mint (I also late Mate)?

[Donut417]

On 1/12/2020 at 10:29 AM, Edward78 said:

Which rolling is most like Mint (I also late Mate)?

Mint is based on Ubuntu. So that would mean it’s most like Mint.