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(Score: 2) by srobert on Saturday March 24 2018, @06:26PM (4 children)
Maybe so. I'm not a pro myself, but the reason I thought "Arch for Pros", was that he'd learn systemd, which is unfortunately, a necessity to learn for the big enterprise distros like Red Hat and CentOS. I love Void Linux. It's the OS on my current main laptop. (Mostly because it has a wifi card that won't run FreeBSD and my eyesight is getting too poor in my old age to open it up and mess with it.) Void is extremely reliable, and the runit system is so easy to set up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 24 2018, @07:20PM (3 children)
If you want to use freebsd, and Linux has the wifi drivers you need, set up passthrough with bhyve to give the service to a Linux vm, set up a proxy, and connect through the vm.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 24 2018, @07:30PM (2 children)
Whoa, that works? I always thought that if a device didn't work in the host OS the guest won't know what to do with it either. And, does this passthrough require VT-d/AMD-IOMMU, or not?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 24 2018, @09:41PM (1 child)
http://0xfeedface.org/2014/12/11/FreeBSD-Intel-wifi-via-bhyve.html [0xfeedface.org]
(Score: 2) by srobert on Sunday March 25 2018, @01:20AM
Thanks AC. You've given me something to pursue with that as soon as time permits. The ethernet setup works, so I already have freebsd installed. When time permits I'll investigate this.