Looks like a bit of a false start (I was looking for a silicone boobie joke there but failed to get it going, much like that porting attempt). I'm happy to put some hours in the moment I can get this workstation on Ghost 11.1 - I'm locked into Torvalds indulgence right now: boy I'm full of loathing ...

I grok that.

Ubuntu Budgie gives you a better preview with the backing of Debian/Ubuntu.

But you can see why I want to have it on my BSD box.

Just another reason to jump to Ghost! I didn't know that ZFS meant that - you learn something every day (and I've been doing this for nearly four decades now!) I'll certainly be taking your advice on the de-duplication fiasco! in fact, my local store for mission critical files is quite modest - 120 ...

This install is for my workstation which is a beast compared to everything I've ever owned: twin 8 core Xeons with for a total of 32 cores (16 real, 16 virtualised) and 32Gb of RAM. My reading of ZFS is that it needs about 1 Gb RAM for every 1 Tb of HDD space, so I'm lucky enough to be well covered....

Here's a vote for Budgie if you're able to include it as an option in future. Last I checked, Budgie wasn't ready for BSD - I don't know the current status of the project but I use it as a daily driver in several of my GNU+Linux boxes and I'm really taken with it. Next to Mate it's the only DE I've ...

That's terrific news. I got 10.3 and 11.1 running on an aging Dell X1730 gaming laptop - which is all fur coat and no knickers - marrying a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo with dual 980GTXs in SLI mode. Hard to imagine why anyone thought that was a good idea. You won't be surprised that it also chokes under the w...

Sorry, 11.1. My bad. That's what I get for typing in a hurry.

:cry: Being wanting to use GhostBSD for some years now (certainly since I first tried 4.0 when it was the ONLY *nix that would run on an ancient machine I had lying around.) FF to today, I'm trying to get rid of Ubuntu because much as love GNU, I can't be doing with Linus and the idea that he's some...