Systems & Networking

Using a program called p910nd you can take any non-network printer and turn it into a network printer over Ethernet or Wifi.

Follow the directions on this page to get the latest stable (released) version of Meteor running on FreeBSD. As of this writing, that's version 1.4.1.1 utilizing NodeJS 4, MongoDB 3.2, and NPM 3.9

Like GhostBSD guests on VMWare it's also easy to enable smooth mouse, clipboard sharing, and auto-resize for TrueOS. Only one tiny adjustment is required. Keep in mind though that TrueOS is still in beta and is tracking FreeBSD 12-CURRENT as of this writing, so things might be a little unstable. By 'unstable' I mean that updates might break stuff, the OS itself works pretty well with VMWare.

For a GhostBSD guest running on VMWare it's really easy to enable features like smooth mouse, clipboard sharing, and auto-resize. These instruction will cover the most simplest method using the emulators/open-vm-tools binary package. If you prefer to build your own packages or want more control over your X11 configuration file, take a look at a similar post Open VM Tools on FreeBSD 10 with Xorg.