Freebsd post archive

  1. Trying the GNOME desktop for a few weeks
  2. Which BSD did you start on?
  3. The version of vi shipped with the BSDs
  4. A basic ASRock board for my FreeBSD tower
  5. My daily carry in 2023
  6. Whats the worst advice you’ve received?
  7. GaryH Tech discusses Linux desktops
  8. Music Monday, and Antranig tries LXC
  9. Happy 30th birthday to FreeBSD!
  10. FreeBSD brightness controls on Panasonic laptops
  11. That’s a huge number of folders
  12. Moving to ansible_facts['distribution']
  13. FreeBSD and NetBSD laptop feedback: the Framework
  14. Researching a new FreeBSD or NetBSD laptop
  15. The BSD sockstat(1) command
  16. It’s worth running a FreeBSD or NetBSD desktop
  17. The OSs I use most often
  18. FreeBSD pipes and redirection, via @klarainc
  19. What’s that FreeBSD/NetBSD/Mac/etc drive?
  20. Cleaning out my notes folder, 2022
  21. FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE available
  22. Speeding up FreeBSD jail start times
  23. Querying TXT records with drill(1)
  24. The wonderful tee(1) command
  25. Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use
  26. Running Unix commands in real life
  27. Setting up Minecraft, for absolute beginners
  28. How do you create zpools? Via @michaeldexter
  29. A list of games I’ve enjoyed
  30. A year of using a FreeBSD laptop without a GUI
  31. svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base
  32. Resource use of FreeBSD desktop environments
  33. How we run Minecraft
  34. Basic fix between pf tables and macros on FreeBSD
  35. My own drive reliability stats
  36. Our sites are now on FreeBSD 13.1-R
  37. The @vermaden, @BasementTrix on FreeBSD not being a native PC OS
  38. Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
  39. Time splits between various OSs, via Mark C.
  40. FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE available
  41. A quick look at console file managers
  42. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure
  43. Arigato, K.G.Kobayashi
  44. Another mention on @BSDNow!
  45. Committing dotfiles and other essentials
  46. My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting
  47. Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu
  48. Comparing lzop and plzip compression
  49. KDE Plasma 5.24 released
  50. What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS
  51. Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD
  52. A home NAS of the future
  53. The current state of Linux gaming
  54. My FreeBSD laptop... without a GUI!?
  55. One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower
  56. The @Zoomosis on ZFS, tape, and external drives
  57. Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys
  58. Feedback on my “not sure if UNIX won” post
  59. Unix Text Processing
  60. Nix desktop ricing
  61. Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail
  62. A FreeBSD Puppet refresher by Romain Tartière
  63. Using freebsd-update to upgrade jails
  64. Using youtube-dl on FreeBSD
  65. The home storage crisis, via Doc Searls
  66. Erroneous systemd Ghost errors in FreeBSD
  67. pkgin’s manpage
  68. Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD
  69. Feedback about FreeBSD, Linux VM gatekeeping
  70. FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6
  71. Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can
  72. Clearing nginx’s cache
  73. I’m not sure that UNIX won
  74. Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs
  75. Answering @klarainc: Where I started with ZFS
  76. My state of macOS virtualisation, with FreeBSD and NetBSD digressions
  77. FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE sources via Git
  78. FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE available!
  79. Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi
  80. i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2
  81. grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD
  82. FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6
  83. fstab in FreeBSD jails
  84. Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages
  85. We might have a Hololive FreeBSD problem
  86. Things I was thankful for in 2020
  87. Tribblix m24 available
  88. Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE
  89. Starting with FreeBSD jails
  90. Block copy disk over SSH with gzip
  91. Antranig moving from macOS to FreeBSD
  92. Responses to my new homelab server
  93. Building a new homelab server
  94. Mktemp started on OpenBSD
  95. NetBSD 9.1, FreeBSD 12.2-R, OpenBSD 6.8
  96. OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD
  97. Raf Czlonka on BSD licencing
  98. People asking about FreeBSD licencing
  99. Band names in console output
  100. Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!
  101. Linux Journal is back!
  102. Consolidating running software
  103. Forgetting to set UTF normalisation on a ZFS pool
  104. You lock your data with us, we cannot fail
  105. You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS
  106. FSF’s Free Software Gang almost included FreeBSD
  107. Allan Jude discusses ZFS on Level1Linux
  108. iperf3: error - unable to connect to server: Permission denied
  109. Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD
  110. nvi2 in FreeBSD ports
  111. Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI
  112. Colin Percival on the zeroth-system effect
  113. Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro
  114. Michael Dexter on software project communication
  115. More FreeBSD HPE Microserver homelab answers
  116. .dotfile management
  117. Booting FreeBSD off the HPE MicroServer Gen8 ODD SATA port
  118. My humble homelab, with awful ASCII diagrams
  119. csh feedback from @debdrup
  120. Custom tab completions in oksh
  121. Quick FreeBSD bridge when your switch is full
  122. Colour ls on NetBSD
  123. Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy
  124. Remuxing old FLVs to MP4, without re-encoding!
  125. Locking down SSH to specific IPs
  126. Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD
  127. FreeBSD consolidation, and spam apologies
  128. FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550
  129. Gigolo failed to mount Windows share
  130. Removing characters with tr
  131. Clearing up FreeBSD GCC news
  132. FreeBSD 12.1 Nvidia desktop
  133. What started as investigating /opt on FreeBSD
  134. Symlinking FreeBSD svnlite to svn
  135. fetch: authentication error on FreeBSD
  136. Gotchas when adding a drive to an existing ZFS pool to make a mirror
  137. The envelope method, and 64-bit YNAB4 works
  138. The first FreeBSD conference in Australia
  139. Intel’s discrete GPUs at CES
  140. A technical admission
  141. Installing Hunspell on FreeBSD and macOS
  142. Enabling /dev/diskid and /dev/gpt on FreeBSD
  143. A personal retrospective on the 2010s
  144. Curious case of the 32 GiB key with only 64 MiB
  145. Comparing BSD potatoes in liquid nitrogen
  146. New KDE/FreeBSD team website
  147. What a FreeBSD guy uses NetBSD for
  148. Talking at FreeBSD events
  149. Funding bhyve VirtFS/9p completion project
  150. Searching for FreeBSD ports
  151. What I’m excited about
  152. Site updates, late November 2019
  153. Chaining addresses in FreeBSD ipfw
  154. FreeBSD 12.1 available
  155. Fun with online ECC memory shopping
  156. Consolidating all the things, also watches
  157. Custom awk delimiters
  158. Windows games on FreeBSD via Homura
  159. GCC being removed from FreeBSD 13 base
  160. Some more jot numbers
  161. Goodbye again to the Linux Journal
  162. Choosing a NAS
  163. A brief history of KornShell time
  164. My 2019 essential tool list
  165. ZFS isn’t just for NAS boxes
  166. Ansible name parameters in cron
  167. Ansible authorized_key and user variables
  168. Versions of ksh93 in macOS, FreeBSD
  169. Don’t forget the -y with FreeBSD Ansible
  170. Jaycar external RAID box with FreeBSD and ZFS
  171. A purpose-built FreeBSD home bhyve box
  172. Tweeting about FreeBSD, NetBSD
  173. Cropping a single row of pixels with ImageMagick
  174. When did you learn version control?
  175. Goodbye tanakasuka, my last RAIDZ-1 ZFS pool
  176. OrionVM launches Melbourne PoP
  177. BSD questions from @romanzolotarev
  178. User 'polkitd' disappeared during update
  179. Perl 5.28.2 in ports and perlbrew
  180. FreeBSD devd files need a .conf extension
  181. Curly bracket substitution in sed, nvi, Vim
  182. Subversion in OrionVM FreeBSD templates
  183. PF in FreeBSD and NetBSD
  184. Using a 4K LG UltraFine display with FreeBSD?
  185. Inline substitution with NetBSD sed
  186. No FreeBSD on the Libretto any more
  187. NetBSD devpubd as a FreeBSD devd equivalent
  188. Learning about shell indirect expansion
  189. FreeBSD sh getting set -o pipefail
  190. FreeBSD shared object libssl.so.8 not found
  191. Stack Overflow survey 2019
  192. fd, the find alternative
  193. Finding the current week number
  194. Windows versus BSD and GPL
  195. Bookmark cleanout, December 2018
  196. Could not chdir to fulljail
  197. rmdir versus rm
  198. OpenSSH undefined symbol on FreeBSD
  199. A dev quote attributed to Maurice Wilkes
  200. A dodgy USB key
  201. Option wishlist for shell software
  202. Red Hat deprecating KDE, with reminiscing
  203. Xorg: More than one possible primary device found
  204. Greyed out VMware Fusion NIC settings
  205. Not news, but ed25519 keys are tiny
  206. Ports
  207. mkfs.xfs on Debian
  208. Can you do it cheaper?
  209. Linux to FreeBSD: lspci to pciconf
  210. LattePanda
  211. WordNet and Problematical
  212. ifconfig
  213. You have detached Mosh sessions on this server
  214. Deleting all FreeBSD jails
  215. Suppress echo newlines
  216. PostgreSQL NOT IN with NULL
  217. Argument mnemonics
  218. FreeBSD ZFS catching mismatched disks
  219. The WQ command is unknown to FreeBSD nvi
  220. rsvg-convert svg to png
  221. Using rsyncd instead of rsync over SSH
  222. Nice FreeBSD bash prompt
  223. $q q Vim bug, and moving to vim-console
  224. FreeBSD doesn't need moused for Xorg
  225. Moving from 1Password for KeePassXC
  226. Turning 32!
  227. My Akihabara GPD Pocket
  228. When you cd to double slashes in bash, tcsh
  229. Tokyo 2018
  230. Sorting a *nix folder by last modification date
  231. Ports Collection support for your FreeBSD version
  232. FreeBSD swapinfo
  233. FreeBSD.org using Let’s Encrypt
  234. How to really add FreeBSD users to groups
  235. Prevent GELI password boot prompts
  236. Keep it simple, Ansible
  237. Python interpreter for Ansible
  238. Ansible with FreeBSD
  239. freebsd-update timezone changes
  240. Case-insensitive file systems aren't clear cut
  241. The wonderful FreeBSD cal
  242. rgb2ycbcr and rgrep
  243. FreeBSD and ZFS with Plex
  244. Enforce 4k sectors in FreeBSD
  245. Force overwrite with cp
  246. Alternative Let’s Encrypt Clients
  247. Basic sh to scan an IP range
  248. Showing dd progress
  249. scp can tab-complete for three slashes
  250. Browsing tar files with Vim
  251. Upgrading and locking FreeBSD 10+ ports in pkgng
  252. Perl 5.20 in FreeBSD
  253. Burning ISOs in El Capitan
  254. Required Nagios email alert packages
  255. FreshPorts on GitHub
  256. Finding the current week
  257. Segfaulting Firefox on FreeBSD
  258. jot and shuf
  259. Taking the hint, git
  260. Ignore certificate warnings in wget
  261. Mount ZFS in FreeBSD single user mode
  262. nginx 1.9.3
  263. Renaming files with invalid characters
  264. When nginx add_header don't appear
  265. git-lite on FreeBSD
  266. sed versus Perl substitution performance
  267. Xfce 4.12
  268. CPU architectures on nixCraft
  269. The bane of GNU Info
  270. An unexpected FreeBSD 10.1 RC4
  271. Recording screens with ffmpeg
  272. Missing FreeBSD map file
  273. Hey, bash doesn’t exist
  274. Incomplete bash code injection fix
  275. Bash code injection vulnerability
  276. Using xz with newsyslog
  277. FreeBSD 10 performance
  278. Disable moused on a FreeBSD Xen guest
  279. Changing the owner of a symlink
  280. Initialising regrettable decisions with systemd
  281. Wheel group for FreeBSD visudo
  282. Use curl to download image sequences
  283. FreeBSD 10 PVHVM serial console
  284. Terminal capability "cm" required
  285. pkgng repository size
  286. NTP sanity check
  287. A basic FreeBSD NAS with netatalk3
  288. Downloading from multiple sources with aria2
  289. Linux RdRand
  290. SaaS cloud encrypting customer data
  291. FreeBSD and hardware random number generators
  292. ZFS on FreeBSD supporting TRIM
  293. FreeBSD 9.2 with vesa in Parallels Desktop 9
  294. Linux doesn’t have to lose for BSD to win
  295. bsdtar and xz on one line
  296. rsync remote command not found
  297. FreeBSD pkg bootstrap is being restored
  298. pkgng is now in the FreeBSD Handbook
  299. Malaysian FreeBSD nostalgia and community
  300. Changing timezones in CentOS, Fedora, FreeBSD, Yuki
  301. FreeBSD GPT works just fine on the ThinkPad X40
  302. pkgin and pkgng for pkgwin
  303. Belkin F5D7010 works on Fedora and FreeBSD
  304. HandBrakeCLI start-at and stop-at in
  305. Point Gnome 3 Contacts to SeaMonkey Address Book
  306. Make Qt applications match Gnome 3
  307. BSDInstall is just wonderful
  308. Merging KDE icons into the Task Manager
  309. libcxxrt C++ runtime now available under BSD licence
  310. FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE
  311. Enlightenment E17 at 1.0!
  312. A barely qualifying post on DSLness
  313. I’m an uncool computer scientist
  314. FreeBSD 8.1 freshly toasted
  315. hptrr: no controller detected FreeBSD error
  316. Caution: filename not matched unzip error
  317. Picking up an MSI P43T-C51 for peanuts!
  318. Using pushd and popd with tcsh
  319. Excited, verbose review of Joe’s Own Editor
  320. Gnome 2.30 has been released, I think
  321. Unix file compression basics
  322. Graduating from nvi, kinda
  323. Only enabling 16 bit PCMCIA in a FreeBSD kernel?
  324. Trying out the nvi editor
  325. FreeBSD 8.0 boots on a Toshiba Libretto 70CT
  326. Tcsh telling me DING!
  327. unzip need PK compat. v4.5 error thing
  328. Answering @JJProjects about $100 million
  329. SuperDrive likes FreeBSD, scared by Fedora
  330. An ncurses virgin installs it and tries it out
  331. Answering J-Walk’s clock
  332. Could KDE 4.4 be enough to win me back?
  333. An OpenSSH epiphany
  334. Fun with graphical Links browser
  335. Restoring damaged FreeBSD boot loaders
  336. FreeBSD 8.0
  337. Spreading the FreeBSD 8.0 love
  338. Late November night ruminations
  339. Torrenting, downloading FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
  340. LilyTerm is my favourite terminal emulator!
  341. Fedora 12 installed and go!
  342. Friday night shell adventure
  343. ThinkPad X40 secondary IDE #fail
  344. Kaspersky’s FreeBSD anti virus! What?
  345. FreeBSD in new VMware Fusion 3
  346. FreeBSD in VMware Fusion 3.0 is amazing!
  347. Freshly toasted VMware Fusion 3 goodness
  348. Why must external drives behave this way?
  349. Windows 7 not faster than XP after all
  350. Rearranging Gnome titlebar buttons
  351. Mac and FreeBSD guy trying Debian
  352. MacBook Pro trackpad on OpenSolaris
  353. Getting around a Windows ban
  354. 64bit FreeBSD Commander Keen
  355. Using Gnome icons in the Xfce desktop
  356. The Midnight Commander… editor?
  357. Review of Nitrogen background setter and previewer
  358. Openbox FreeBSD netbook software whatnot
  359. Xfce 4.6.1’s I18n and bug fix improvements
  360. If you’ve never tried Midnight Commander…
  361. Congrats to Gerard van Essen from FreeBSDNews.net
  362. Netscape reference in FreeBSD
  363. FreeBSD 7.2 has been released
  364. Using Herrie to listen to Whole Wheat Radio
  365. It’s FreeBSD’s documentation, stupid
  366. My belated review of VirtualBox for Mac
  367. My belated review of Q.app
  368. Online monetisation is a misnomer at best
  369. Moving to Linux from FreeBSD on my Armada M300
  370. Spread FreeBSD and all that
  371. Disabling the PC speaker in FreeBSD
  372. The best tool for the job is the one you can use
  373. Booting Windows Vista should mean kicking it…
  374. Quick guide to burning CDs in FreeBSD
  375. Turning a Firefox story into an anti-Mac story?
  376. FreeBSD has come a long way on Wikipedia too
  377. A refreshed Windows disgust rant!
  378. FreeBSD 7.1 now available!
  379. Using env in shebang scripting language lines
  380. My falling out with Microsoft actually explained
  381. How to forcibly eject drives in Mac OS X
  382. Brief flirtation with FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro is over
  383. I can now boot FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro!
  384. Tips for compiling KDE 4.1 from FreeBSD ports
  385. My kingdom for a bigger notebook hard drive
  386. Google Chrome goodness!
  387. Networking issue to blame for poor VMware Fusion BSD performance?
  388. VMware Fusion 2.0 beta2 with FreeBSD review
  389. Western Digital MyBook DHCP adventure
  390. Backing up CDs to ISOs on FreeBSD
  391. FreeBSD AMD64 is good for you
  392. Tunneling X11 through SSH on Mac OS X
  393. Fun with Xfce part 4: Using Openbox
  394. Fun with Xfce, part three
  395. Fun with Xfce, part two
  396. Fun with Xfce, part one
  397. Latest computer book haul
  398. VIM security note for FreeBSD folks
  399. KDE user moving his main machine to GNOME
  400. Zip and rar archives in Gnome
  401. NTP primer on FreeBSD, NetBSD
  402. FreeBSD on an Armada M300 rocks
  403. On Adobe Air, limited accounts, updating, BSD
  404. Spreadsheet adventures (and Excel 08 sucks!)
  405. Well there you go, the K does mean something
  406. Cutting Mono out of GNOME on FreeBSD
  407. My Windows Vista Home Premium adventure
  408. Ironic Adobe FreeBSD advertising
  409. Dodgy Windows virus scanner on FreeBSD!
  410. Sleek Openbox in KDE on FreeBSD
  411. Debian Etch for 5, then back to Slackware
  412. Powered by FreeBSD case sticker
  413. Faulty Intel DQ35JO motherboard fun
  414. KDE 3.5.8 font registration fun
  415. Adobe Air musings and so forth
  416. The mysterious little DFE-670TXD
  417. Mahalo is just plain silly
  418. Another look at NetBSD
  419. Trolltech revises permitted Qt licences!
  420. Enabling UTF8 in Nano
  421. Learning FreeBSD, FreeBSD 6 Unleashed
  422. FreeBSD verbose package installation
  423. VMware Fusion Beta 3 released
  424. X11, FreeBSD, Parallels Desktop, xorg.conf
  425. FreeBSD guy tries and likes Slackware Linux!
  426. Mikuru, Fluxbox with ROX-Filer on FreeBSD
  427. FreeBSD Boleh!
  428. KDE user tries Gnome after 8 years!
  429. Fsck, power surges, journaling, FreeBSD
  430. Creating FreeBSD boot disks on Mac OS X
  431. Haruhi Suzumiya dancing on FreeBSD?
  432. Parallels Desktop FreeBSD issues
  433. Operating Systems Ranked