.. title: Update on revisiting FreeBSD Challenge
.. slug: update-on-revisiting-freebsd-challenge
.. date: 2015-01-10 22:35:04 UTC-06:00
.. tags: sa,30DayChallenge
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It is the 10th day of the month, and I am 10 days in trying to use FreeBSD as my daily non-work driver.  How is it going?

Well, for the most part, well.  I can spend most of my personal work-flow on the FreeBSD laptop with no issues.  There are a couple of things I have not moved over yet, and those relate to my photo work-flow.  The main application, `AfterShotPro <http://aftershotpro.com>`_ is installed and working (see `my previous desciption </posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-4-6.html>`_ of installing in), however, I have not moved over the scripts I use in the flow.  I believe they will just come over, but I have not had a chance to test them.

I was using `Chromium <http://chromium.org>`_, but any Flash site did not work.  I need to revisit this at some point, but for now I went back to Firefox, and it is working create.

The only major thing right now I need to figure out is how FreeBSD deals with sound.  I can hear things from the speakers just fine, but I need to figure out how to enable and use an USB headset.  Not the biggest, but still.  I also need to either install & configure Skype, or find a replacement video chat to use with the wife while traveling that works under FreeBSD.   I like the second option better, but I have not really had the time to do the research.

And, the new site generating suite I am using works under FreeBSD.  I wrote and posted this from the FreeBSD laptop.

More updates soon.