vermaden (u/vermaden)

vermaden commented on 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/vermaden

> What I really loved is that XLibre X11 packages DOES NOT CONFLICT with Xorg packages. You just install xlibre instead of xorg and everything works … even better then with Xorg

How do you control which one is used? I was expecting xlibreinit or something, but the rest of the post appears to just run xinit like normal with nothing that I noticed that would select an X implementation

vermaden · 3 days ago

What I expected - that if I would want to install Openbox - then Xorg will be forced.

I typed:

    # pkg install xlibre

... and X11 XLibre implementation installed and Openbox installed properly and 'xorg' packages was not forced.

The binaries of XLibre still have the same old 'Xorg' names like 'Xorg' is the server binary name (not 'XLibre') and xinit(1) is still xinit(1) ...

But if you already have 'xorg' package installed and you would like to install 'xlibre' package then there would be conflicts as they install file into the same places - and often with the same names.

Hope that helps.

vermaden commented on 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/vermaden

ggm · 3 days ago

Do the same for X! Well.. a layered addition maybe. I've always felt it's bringing swags of stuff which never gets used. A non accelerated fb or vesa binding would do for a lot of things.

I liked this piece a lot. Nice write up of how you explored the space.

vermaden · 3 days ago

Thank You :)

    > Do the same for X!

I kinda did ... but for RAM usage and not disk space.

Details here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/200-mb-ram-freebsd...

vermaden commented on 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/vermaden

crest · 4 days ago

Wait until you run `pkg upgrade` and it takes several times the 150MiB...

vermaden · 3 days ago

Please read entire article (or at least skim read it) because I also cover that part :)

vermaden commented on 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/vermaden

haunter · 4 days ago

In there an “accessible” BSD on the level of live CD Linux distros, like Debian? Hey you can play around but also install it if you want right here right now with a DE

vermaden · 3 days ago

GhostBSD is FreeBSD with GUI installer and MATE by default - it also comes with XFCE flavor.

Highly recommended.

vermaden commented on 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/vermaden

yjftsjthsd-h · 4 days ago

> Also keep in mind that You have entire static FreeBSD Rescue System available under /rescue dir.

If you have ZFS with boot environments, how valuable is that?

vermaden · 3 days ago

I always like to have options - with /rescue you have statically linked bectl(8) and zpool(8) and zfs(8) commands - which help to manage ZFS and ZFS Boot Environments.