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welcome to another video from explaining

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computers.com this time we're going to

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delve into the world of free

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BSD this is a server desktop and

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embedded operating system that provides

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an alternative to Windows or l

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specifically in this video we're going

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to focus on the options for running

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FreeBSD as a desktop operating

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system so let's go and take a closer

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look so here we are on the FreeBSD

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project website where we are met by this

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little red beasy free BSD is derived

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from BS S D or the Berkeley software

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distribution which was a version of a

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Unix operating system developed at the

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University of California

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Berkeley as the name suggests FreeBSD is

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free with the first version released in

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1993 the latest version of FreeBSD is

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released

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14.2 which became available in December

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2024 FreeBSD has a focus on performance

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networking and storage it can be found

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running on some core internet routers

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and Route name servers and is also used

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by some major providers of online

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content so for example if you watch

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Netflix you are streaming video from a

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server running

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FreeBSD however here as I noted earlier

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we're going to focus on FreeBSD for

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desktop

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use in this context it should be noted

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if we go to the download page whilst we

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find FreeBSD available for lots of

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different kinds of Hardware all of the

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supplied images are command line only

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and so do not include a graphical

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desktop when booted after this initial

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menu FreeBSD therefore runs up to look

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like

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this but as detailed in the extensive

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documentation it's possible to install a

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desktop environment with a choice

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comprising KD plasma gnome xfce

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mate cinnamon and

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lxqt this does however first involve

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installing and configuring an exor or

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Wayland display server and so getting a

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desktop system up and running is not

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trivial especially for a novice

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user but fear not as we can see on the

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FreeBSD Foundation website a number of

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FreeBSD desktop distributions are

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available for those new to FreeBSD these

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provide a very straightforward

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installation image with a desktop

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pre-installed so let's test these

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out right here we are on the website for

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ghost BSD which as we can see describes

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itself as a simple elegant desktop BSD

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operating system and more specifically

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if we scroll down here we can see it's

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based on free

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BSD you official version of ghostbsd

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comes with a mte desktop pre-installed

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and indeed if I just minimize the

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browser we can see we are running

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ghostbsd with a mte desktop right now as

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indeed we were when we looked at

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websites in the last part of the

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video returning to the ghost PSD website

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if we go to download we find a link

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straight away to the official image with

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the mte desktop although it's worth

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noting there's also an unofficial image

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with an xfc E

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desktop as we can see system

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requirements offer 4 GB of RAM and 15 GB

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of drive space and once the file has

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been downloaded it just needs to be

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written to USB drive using an Imaging

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program such as bellena etcher or Rufus

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and if you then boot from the USB drive

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you'll soon arrive on the ghost BSD

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desktop where there's an icon to perform

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and install if you

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wish this is then very straightforward

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indeed more so than so some Linux

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installers and after selecting your

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keyboard layout and time zone if you opt

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for full dis configuration you just need

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to select the drive to install ghostbsd

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on stick with the default boot option

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and enter a username and password for

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the user admin account ghost BSD will

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then install itself which will wipe

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everything from the drive you

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selected back here on the desktop

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everything is very straightforward and

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easy to use we have a m desktop after

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all and in the day or so I've been

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testing this out I've had no stability

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or performance issues if we go to the

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menu there some basic software

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pre-installed under accessories we've

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got well a few accessories as we can see

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under Graphics we've got Shotwell for

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organizing our photos we've got an image

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viewer we have got under internet the

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Firefox web browser we were just running

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under office we have nothing to write

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home about at all under sound and video

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we have the Rhythm box music player and

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also the VLC media player for videos and

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under system tools we've got well some

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system tools and so if you want to use

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this system purely for consuming media

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files and browsing the internet

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everything you need is

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pre-installed but I think most people

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will want to install some additional

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software so how do we do that and what's

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available well over 30,000 applications

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have been ported to free BSD many of

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which can be installed as pre-compiled

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packages and here in ghostbsd we can

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install such packages via a graphical

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package manager called software station

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and we find this in system

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administration and there it is software

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station what a great name for a program

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and I now need to enter my password to

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get to

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it there we go and it now needs to sync

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with its repository so we'll just fast

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forward through as it does that

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there we go and we now have a set of

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categories down the left of the screen

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slightly stange set of categories and

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for some reason here the end of the

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letter e which is a little bit

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suspicious and they be no relationship

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to the categories we see here on the

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menu accessories Graphics Internet

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Office Etc which is slightly strange and

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I've therefore found it much easier just

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to search for things here so for example

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if we want to install a photo

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editor we'll just do a search for

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like that and lots of things come up CU

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it includes various additional files but

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the program itself is there so let's

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just click on that for the gnu image

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manipulation program and we will click

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on apply to install the software and

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indeed a few other things are being

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installed as well it seems but I will

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confirm the whole lot and then we'll

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speed on

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through there we go it has completed and

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in theory now in our menu under Graphics

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we have yes the jnu image manipulation

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program let's run it up here in ghost

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BSD and I hopefully it'll get there I

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suppose it's its first run up it's got

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something probably exciting to do in the

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background but oh look there we are we

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can see the familiar toad stools for

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theu image manipulation

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program and its Babel fishes are now

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being applied always a good to see and

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here we are is clearly running here

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in a free

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BSD next let's search for a Libra office

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like that and uh this will come up with

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lots and lots of things as I recall yeah

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there's all sorts of language packs and

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things Libra office itself is here

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somewhere we just keep her going down

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there it is look that's the Libra office

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full integrated office productivity

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Suite as it says here and we could

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install this therefore by just clicking

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there and doing and

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apply however I thought it's important

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to show you the other way of installing

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which he's using the terminal so let's

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minimize this for a second and we'll run

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up the terminal from uh system tools and

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fish is the terminal here very exciting

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here we are in the terminal and to

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install an application we need to have

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rights as the super or root user and

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here in free BSD we don't unlike in

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Linux have sudu pre-installed so we can

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do that as the existing user and so what

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we need to do is to type Sue to become a

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super user like that and we now need to

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enter the root password and if you're

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wondering what is the root password back

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in the installer when we set the

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password for the admin user the same

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password password is initially set to be

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the root password so that's what your

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root password will be so I'll now enter

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mine it won't appear on the

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screen there we go we're now root on

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this system and it's always a good idea

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to ensure that our repositories are

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updated before installing software they

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will be here because we've just been

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running the graphical software station

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but if we hadn't been we would type A

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package like that and an update like

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that

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we should find here everything is up to

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date as we would expect and we're now

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going to install the package so let's

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install Libra office using the terminal

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by typing package and install and guess

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what Libra office like

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that and uh there we are it's happy to

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do it do we want to proceed yes we

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do and there we are Libra office has now

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been installed along it seems with some

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additional fonts so let's just exit as

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super user like that and also exit the

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terminal like that and hopefully we go

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back to the menu and office there we are

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the office is here let just launched the

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whole lot for once there it is coming up

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very happily and if I want to write for

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example a document we can obviously

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launcher Libra office writer and here we

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are in our familiar program where I have

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to type hello like that and make it very

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large indeed because it is the law there

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we

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go now what I'm now going to do do is to

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go back to the software station I've

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shown you both a graphical install and a

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terminal install and I think I'm now

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going to install a range of applications

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just to prove they're available in

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FreeBSD so I'm now very quickly going to

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install

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inkscape as well as

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Critter and then Caden

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live and then finally and most

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importantly no desktop Computing setup

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can be complete without

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Sala and uh there we go those have all

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been installed we've got lots of things

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in our menu which include Solitaire in

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games here but we'll start out by

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running up

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inkscape there we are we can clearly use

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inkscape on this system and let's now a

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run up the Critter painting

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package yes we can clearly use Critter

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here on this free BSD this ghost BSD

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system and so let's penultimately also

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run up Kaden live the video

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editor this clearly works too which is

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good to see and then finally we can run

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up Salter here we go very exciting and

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so I'll now engage in a bit of very

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important extensive testing and I'll

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come back to you when it's

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complete next I thought we'd take a look

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at midnight B B SD which is the first

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FreeBSD desktop distribution listed on

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the FreeBSD Foundation website where

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it's described as being suitable for

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novice to Advanced users and indeed the

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project website describes midnight BSD

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as a BSD derived operating system

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developed with desktop users in mind

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with the developer striving to create an

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easy to use operating system everyone

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can

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use however unlike with ghost BSD

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the midnight BSD installer is not

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ideally suited for those unfamiliar with

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free

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BSD and even when it's completed the

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system remains in a terminal mode and

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asks a number of configuration questions

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one of which is whether we want to

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enable a graphical

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environment and when we answer yes

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midnight bstd proceeds to download and

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install an xfce desktop one file at a

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time so clearly a desktop is not

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pre-installed in the initial image and

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unfortunately for me upon reboot and

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after four installation attempts and a

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lot of messing around I cannot get a

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desktop to appear and we remain in

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terminal

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mode now this may be an issue with me I

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might be doing something really stupid

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it may be an issue with my test Hardware

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which is an Intel j4105 system on which

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I do test a lot of different operating

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systems and on which we've just run

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ghost BSD with no issues and I do

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imagine that if I spent some more time

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on it I may be able to get things to

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work however in 2025 the basic

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installation of a desktop operating

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system should not take any level of

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messing around in a terminal and so I'm

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going to move on to another FreeBSD

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desktop drro

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greetings we're now going to look at a

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desktop operating system called hello

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system which is based on FreeBSD and has

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a target audience of those switching

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from a Mac however anybody with xx6

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Hardware can try to run hello system

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although do note that it's currently in

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version

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0.8.1 and so is still

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experimental and on non-mac Hardware the

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use of a raspber pie keyboard and hub

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are recommended to enable automatic

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detection these points noted once the

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hell system ISO file has been downloaded

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and imaged to a USB drive it boots

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straight to a desktop and here an

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installer is available which I've tried

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out and is incredibly easy to use with

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no explanation required although sadly

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on the two systems I've installed hello

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system on after installation it didn't

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work with a system either looking like

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this or at best like this with a desktop

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without a panel menu or internet

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connection so let's come back to the

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live image running from the USB drive

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just to show you that this really is a

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very Mac looking type of system and it's

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got a very interesting approach to

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Applications we can see here for example

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lots of applications listed in the menu

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free card we've got audacity there we've

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got blender inkscape Critter

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scribus we've got various browsers Li

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office Etc although if we go to run one

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of these applications we discover it

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isn't actually installed yet we have

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markers in the menu which when you first

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click on them download and install the

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application although as it warns here

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this may well not work in the live image

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so we'll click okay there and indeed if

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I did click here to download Liber

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office I know from previous tests that

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the whole system would just crash and so

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there we are hello system not ready for

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prime time yet maybe it works better on

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Mac hardware that may well be the casee

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although it's certainly a FreeBSD

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desktop Dro whose progress I will follow

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with

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interest right let's now turn to Nomad

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BSD which is a persistent live system

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that runs from a USB drive so it really

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is a nomadic form of desktop FreeBSD as

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you can take it from one computer to

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another once imaged to a USB drive noad

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BSD boots into a first run setup tool

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which is very straightforward and just

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requires entry of some basic details and

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a user account and once this has been

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completed it subsequently reboots to its

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desktop as we can see here any changes

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made including application installs and

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settings are retained so making no mad

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BSD a handy portable desktop system

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which may come in useful for data

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recovery and testing free BSD Hardware

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compatibility down the bottom we have a

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plank populated with some of the

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pre-installed applications including the

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Firefox web browser Thunderbird the

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genie programmers editor the NC media

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player we have the gnu image mulation

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program pre-installed let speed on

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through as it boots from USB drive there

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we go good to see running here

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again in free BSD and also down the

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bottom here we have a very useful

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handbook for nomad BSD it's got great

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documentation and also here a package

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manager let's just run it up and I need

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to put in my

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password and we'll just let it populate

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there we go and so it's very easy to add

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new applications we can just click there

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to have a new application type a name

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for example

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inkscape like that and uh as we've seen

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previously would come up we could do a

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very simple software

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install Talking of software there's

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quite a bit here in the main menu lots

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and lots of settings as you can see

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quite a few accessories quite a few

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programmers development tools under

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Graphics we've got as we've just

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seen various things under internet not

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just the browser but also files other

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things like that usual CED multimedia

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player stuff PDF viewer now office

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package we could of course install one

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and ious system

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tools and so there we are Nomad BSD a

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free BSD desktop operating system that

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runs from a live persistent USB

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drive as we've seen in this video ghost

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BSD and Nomad BSD offer a very decent

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free BSD desktop Computing experience

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and this may also be the case with

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midnight BSD and hello system running on

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the right hardware and with an

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appropriate level of technical expertise

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applied if you want to learn more about

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FreeBSD I strongly recommend the

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robonuggie YouTube channel which is

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dedicated to free BSD and contains loads

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of tutorials and

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reviews but now that's it for another

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video if you've enjoyed what you've seen

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