WARNING: Be very careful when running any command with sudo dd in it. This simple command line trick will have you copying or cloning a full disk image of your SD card in record time! Unfortunately this has issues reading linux partitions (well in my experience) and is often slow. Your first thought is to probably use the built in “Disk Utility”. There is no getting away from the fact that helloSystem is part cool project, and part homage to the classic era of Cupertino’s celebrated computing export (aka Mac OS X) Like Apple, these FreeBSD devs want to offer an “out-of-the-box user experience” as simple and fuss-free as mid-2000s Mac.If you have a raspberry pi or other single board computer and would like to make a backup of it, or even clone it to another SD card, then it can take a long time. And if Ubuntu is ‘Linux for human beings’ then helloSystem is close to being ‘FreeBSD for Mac switchers’. OpenSolaris? Oh yes! ReactOS? Roger that! But BSD? Still TBD, at least for me.įor me, new unexplored tech territory is exciting. Now, FreeBSD is a strand of computing I’ve never played with, not even during the exuberant and overreaching “FYIDYK” years. Devs working on helloSystem want to create “a desktop system for creators with focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability” built atop FreeBSD, an open source Unix-like OS.
What helps helloSystem stand out (to me, anyway) more than its ‘unique’ UI is its ambition. If Ubuntu is ‘Linux for human beings’ then helloSystem is ‘FreeBSD for Mac switchers’ This project was the subject of a talk at the recent FOSDEM event, and it’s that talk that pole-vaulted the project in to the eye-line of bloggers like myself. A number of FreeBSD-based “distros” - I don’t know if there’s a different term for BSD flavours, so I’m rolling with this - are available but the first to catch my attention is called helloSystem.
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