The FreeBSD Blog has come out stating a new effort to support laptops and the functionality that comes with that. In the blog, I saw that Framework was a supporter.
I, for one, would be very interested in using BSD on my laptop, I think its a pretty bulletproof system. Is anyone else excited about this? I hope Framework gives us updates on the progress of FW laptop support on FreeBSD.
Same here.
FreeBSD has always been one of my favorite operating systems for decades. (as well as OpenBSD) It would be amazing if more work was done to get FreeBSD to work on Framework. It has always been a strong OS geared towards workstations and servers.
It traditionally has not played well with laptops for a variety of reasons. Will be great to natively have a BSD running on a cutting edge laptop.
FreeBSD 14 installs. With the caveat that it needs DRM-6* installed. That is not installed during the initial installation process.
I had to install from ports, and I have MATE up and running nicely.
It’s not an officially supported operating system by Framework.
But I have done some testing:
And submitted some patches, for example made the fingerprint reader work.
Most missing functionality is for generic hardware like CPU and wifi card, unrelated to framework systems specifically.
It would be very nice if FreeBSD could boot nicely on AMD Framework.
The wifi support in FreeBSD is abysmal. I do hope it’s gonna improve by a lot.
True, but FWIW the ax210 works out-of-the-box on FreeBSD using the iwlwifi driver. The speed is pretty bad, but its fine for browsing the web, installing software, watching youtube, etc.
If you want faster speeds, wifibox seems like a great package for launching a linux VM to drive your wifi card and bridging it back to your host system. I haven’t used wifibox because I rolled my own linux VM to drive my wifi card, but wifibox is doing the same thing and the speeds with this approach have been great.
I have no idea about the wifi card framework shipped with the AMD boards because I didn’t purchase the bundled wifi card.