Jun 10, 2015 · I just picked up a Dell Latitude e5570 with good specs (i7 6820HQ, 16GB RAM, 512GB ssd, 1080 screen, Radeon discreet graphics), and thought I'd give NomadBSD a try. NomadBSD is a spin of FreeBSD, essentially being the base OS with pre-installed applications and configurations. The "twist" so...

May 10, 2019 · Hi everyone! This is my first post here, I hope I'm writing in the right place. It's my first try of bsd os so I have absolutely no experience with it :) I installed the latest image of NomadBSD on a USB stick from Linux using the instructions on the website. I …

Oct 26, 2024 · I think GhostBSD is the better choice for what you want. It installs a working desktop, (looks like Gnome or Mate to me) and is meant to be installed on hard disk. As has been said, it seems the purpose of Nomad is more to be a portable FreeBSD system. Regardless, it doesn't take that long to install it, so why not just try it and see?

Mar 21, 2020 · NomadBSD 1.3.1 has recently been made available. NomadBSD is a lightweight and portable FreeBSD distribution, designed to run on live on a USB flash drive, allowing you to plug, test, and play on different hardware. They have also started a forum as of yesterday, where you can ask questions and...

Sep 14, 2022 · I don't want to ask a lot of questions about nomad ,here. I'm trying only to understand which road to take. I'm open to the possibility to don't use nomad. I'm exploring the field before to start something. Nomad has been the first idea that came to my mind. It seems the easier,but sometime easier does not mean doable.

Jun 13, 2019 · Around the time of FreeBSD-4 through 6 I guess, there was something similar, a live CD running fluxbox, that made it easy to do quick hardware tests. I'm not familiar with Nomad, though such a thing does sound handy. I don't see a forum, but there seems to be a mailing list that might be helpful, and a twitter account.

Feb 28, 2025 · Here it is: /dev/da0p1: Unix Fast File system [v2] (little-endian) last mounted on /mnt/da0p1, volume name Backup, last written Fri Feb 28 20:11:21 2025, clean flag 1, read only flag 0, number of blocks 488378635, number of data blocks 473041063, number of cylinder groups 3048, block size 32768, fragment size 4096, average file size 16384, average number of files on dir 64, pending blocks to ...

Dec 2, 2019 · Hello ! NomadBSD is a FreeBSD desktop environment system by default designed to run on a USB memory drive, however it can be tested on real computer hardware or machine visualized as Virtualbox. It is a nice system almost ready to be used by the end user, I would put as candidate number one...

Apr 16, 2020 · ExplainingComputers tries out NomadBSD in this ~15 minute demo, going through the setup, live boot process, and testing out some apps. NomadBSD is a lightweight FreeBSD distribution for those who want to quickly test out FreeBSD via a USB drive, on different hardware without having to install...

Oct 7, 2021 · My *very* limited experience with Nomad BSD seemed to take a lot of time to set its image for a second laptop after having first been used on a different laptop.One, a Lenovo Yoga 2, the other, a T495 with AMD and different screen size. I …