Installing FreeBSD is straightforward with a text-based installer and automatic partitioning available. Installing apps and ...

Of course, I got lured into GNU/Linux with the vapid declarations of the ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’ back in the late 90s, but FreeBSD seems to always have been ‘that thing for servers’.

So I snagged the FreeBSD 13.2 USB stick file from the torrent, and wrote it to a USB Flash drive. Out with the Hackaday test PC, and on with the show. Installing FreeBSD was as simple as booting ...