Freebsd post archive
- Trying the GNOME desktop for a few weeks
- Which BSD did you start on?
- The version of vi shipped with the BSDs
- A basic ASRock board for my FreeBSD tower
- My daily carry in 2023
- Whats the worst advice you’ve received?
- GaryH Tech discusses Linux desktops
- Music Monday, and Antranig tries LXC
- Happy 30th birthday to FreeBSD!
- FreeBSD brightness controls on Panasonic laptops
- That’s a huge number of folders
- Moving to ansible_facts['distribution']
- FreeBSD and NetBSD laptop feedback: the Framework
- Researching a new FreeBSD or NetBSD laptop
- The BSD sockstat(1) command
- It’s worth running a FreeBSD or NetBSD desktop
- The OSs I use most often
- FreeBSD pipes and redirection, via @klarainc
- What’s that FreeBSD/NetBSD/Mac/etc drive?
- Cleaning out my notes folder, 2022
- FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE available
- Speeding up FreeBSD jail start times
- Querying TXT records with drill(1)
- The wonderful tee(1) command
- Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use
- Running Unix commands in real life
- Setting up Minecraft, for absolute beginners
- How do you create zpools? Via @michaeldexter
- A list of games I’ve enjoyed
- A year of using a FreeBSD laptop without a GUI
- svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base
- Resource use of FreeBSD desktop environments
- How we run Minecraft
- Basic fix between pf tables and macros on FreeBSD
- My own drive reliability stats
- Our sites are now on FreeBSD 13.1-R
- The @vermaden, @BasementTrix on FreeBSD not being a native PC OS
- Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
- Time splits between various OSs, via Mark C.
- FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE available
- A quick look at console file managers
- PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure
- Arigato, K.G.Kobayashi
- Another mention on @BSDNow!
- Committing dotfiles and other essentials
- My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting
- Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu
- Comparing lzop and plzip compression
- KDE Plasma 5.24 released
- What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS
- Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD
- A home NAS of the future
- The current state of Linux gaming
- My FreeBSD laptop... without a GUI!?
- One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower
- The @Zoomosis on ZFS, tape, and external drives
- Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys
- Feedback on my “not sure if UNIX won” post
- Unix Text Processing
- Nix desktop ricing
- Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail
- A FreeBSD Puppet refresher by Romain Tartière
- Using freebsd-update to upgrade jails
- Using youtube-dl on FreeBSD
- The home storage crisis, via Doc Searls
- Erroneous systemd Ghost errors in FreeBSD
- pkgin’s manpage
- Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD
- Feedback about FreeBSD, Linux VM gatekeeping
- FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6
- Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can
- Clearing nginx’s cache
- I’m not sure that UNIX won
- Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs
- Answering @klarainc: Where I started with ZFS
- My state of macOS virtualisation, with FreeBSD and NetBSD digressions
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE sources via Git
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE available!
- Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi
- i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2
- grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD
- FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6
- fstab in FreeBSD jails
- Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages
- We might have a Hololive FreeBSD problem
- Things I was thankful for in 2020
- Tribblix m24 available
- Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE
- Starting with FreeBSD jails
- Block copy disk over SSH with gzip
- Antranig moving from macOS to FreeBSD
- Responses to my new homelab server
- Building a new homelab server
- Mktemp started on OpenBSD
- NetBSD 9.1, FreeBSD 12.2-R, OpenBSD 6.8
- OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD
- Raf Czlonka on BSD licencing
- People asking about FreeBSD licencing
- Band names in console output
- Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!
- Linux Journal is back!
- Consolidating running software
- Forgetting to set UTF normalisation on a ZFS pool
- You lock your data with us, we cannot fail
- You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS
- FSF’s Free Software Gang almost included FreeBSD
- Allan Jude discusses ZFS on Level1Linux
- iperf3: error - unable to connect to server: Permission denied
- Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD
- nvi2 in FreeBSD ports
- Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI
- Colin Percival on the zeroth-system effect
- Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro
- Michael Dexter on software project communication
- More FreeBSD HPE Microserver homelab answers
- .dotfile management
- Booting FreeBSD off the HPE MicroServer Gen8 ODD SATA port
- My humble homelab, with awful ASCII diagrams
- csh feedback from @debdrup
- Custom tab completions in oksh
- Quick FreeBSD bridge when your switch is full
- Colour ls on NetBSD
- Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy
- Remuxing old FLVs to MP4, without re-encoding!
- Locking down SSH to specific IPs
- Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD
- FreeBSD consolidation, and spam apologies
- FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550
- Gigolo failed to mount Windows share
- Removing characters with tr
- Clearing up FreeBSD GCC news
- FreeBSD 12.1 Nvidia desktop
- What started as investigating /opt on FreeBSD
- Symlinking FreeBSD svnlite to svn
- fetch: authentication error on FreeBSD
- Gotchas when adding a drive to an existing ZFS pool to make a mirror
- The envelope method, and 64-bit YNAB4 works
- The first FreeBSD conference in Australia
- Intel’s discrete GPUs at CES
- A technical admission
- Installing Hunspell on FreeBSD and macOS
- Enabling /dev/diskid and /dev/gpt on FreeBSD
- A personal retrospective on the 2010s
- Curious case of the 32 GiB key with only 64 MiB
- Comparing BSD potatoes in liquid nitrogen
- New KDE/FreeBSD team website
- What a FreeBSD guy uses NetBSD for
- Talking at FreeBSD events
- Funding bhyve VirtFS/9p completion project
- Searching for FreeBSD ports
- What I’m excited about
- Site updates, late November 2019
- Chaining addresses in FreeBSD ipfw
- FreeBSD 12.1 available
- Fun with online ECC memory shopping
- Consolidating all the things, also watches
- Custom awk delimiters
- Windows games on FreeBSD via Homura
- GCC being removed from FreeBSD 13 base
- Some more jot numbers
- Goodbye again to the Linux Journal
- Choosing a NAS
- A brief history of KornShell time
- My 2019 essential tool list
- ZFS isn’t just for NAS boxes
- Ansible name parameters in cron
- Ansible authorized_key and user variables
- Versions of ksh93 in macOS, FreeBSD
- Don’t forget the -y with FreeBSD Ansible
- Jaycar external RAID box with FreeBSD and ZFS
- A purpose-built FreeBSD home bhyve box
- Tweeting about FreeBSD, NetBSD
- Cropping a single row of pixels with ImageMagick
- When did you learn version control?
- Goodbye tanakasuka, my last RAIDZ-1 ZFS pool
- OrionVM launches Melbourne PoP
- BSD questions from @romanzolotarev
- User 'polkitd' disappeared during update
- Perl 5.28.2 in ports and perlbrew
- FreeBSD devd files need a .conf extension
- Curly bracket substitution in sed, nvi, Vim
- Subversion in OrionVM FreeBSD templates
- PF in FreeBSD and NetBSD
- Using a 4K LG UltraFine display with FreeBSD?
- Inline substitution with NetBSD sed
- No FreeBSD on the Libretto any more
- NetBSD devpubd as a FreeBSD devd equivalent
- Learning about shell indirect expansion
- FreeBSD sh getting set -o pipefail
- FreeBSD shared object libssl.so.8 not found
- Stack Overflow survey 2019
- fd, the find alternative
- Finding the current week number
- Windows versus BSD and GPL
- Bookmark cleanout, December 2018
- Could not chdir to fulljail
- rmdir versus rm
- OpenSSH undefined symbol on FreeBSD
- A dev quote attributed to Maurice Wilkes
- A dodgy USB key
- Option wishlist for shell software
- Red Hat deprecating KDE, with reminiscing
- Xorg: More than one possible primary device found
- Greyed out VMware Fusion NIC settings
- Not news, but ed25519 keys are tiny
- Ports
- mkfs.xfs on Debian
- Can you do it cheaper?
- Linux to FreeBSD: lspci to pciconf
- LattePanda
- WordNet and Problematical
- ifconfig
- You have detached Mosh sessions on this server
- Deleting all FreeBSD jails
- Suppress echo newlines
- PostgreSQL NOT IN with NULL
- Argument mnemonics
- FreeBSD ZFS catching mismatched disks
- The WQ command is unknown to FreeBSD nvi
- rsvg-convert svg to png
- Using rsyncd instead of rsync over SSH
- Nice FreeBSD bash prompt
- $q q Vim bug, and moving to vim-console
- FreeBSD doesn't need moused for Xorg
- Moving from 1Password for KeePassXC
- Turning 32!
- My Akihabara GPD Pocket
- When you cd to double slashes in bash, tcsh
- Tokyo 2018
- Sorting a *nix folder by last modification date
- Ports Collection support for your FreeBSD version
- FreeBSD swapinfo
- FreeBSD.org using Let’s Encrypt
- How to really add FreeBSD users to groups
- Prevent GELI password boot prompts
- Keep it simple, Ansible
- Python interpreter for Ansible
- Ansible with FreeBSD
- freebsd-update timezone changes
- Case-insensitive file systems aren't clear cut
- The wonderful FreeBSD cal
- rgb2ycbcr and rgrep
- FreeBSD and ZFS with Plex
- Enforce 4k sectors in FreeBSD
- Force overwrite with cp
- Alternative Let’s Encrypt Clients
- Basic sh to scan an IP range
- Showing dd progress
- scp can tab-complete for three slashes
- Browsing tar files with Vim
- Upgrading and locking FreeBSD 10+ ports in pkgng
- Perl 5.20 in FreeBSD
- Burning ISOs in El Capitan
- Required Nagios email alert packages
- FreshPorts on GitHub
- Finding the current week
- Segfaulting Firefox on FreeBSD
- jot and shuf
- Taking the hint, git
- Ignore certificate warnings in wget
- Mount ZFS in FreeBSD single user mode
- nginx 1.9.3
- Renaming files with invalid characters
- When nginx add_header don't appear
- git-lite on FreeBSD
- sed versus Perl substitution performance
- Xfce 4.12
- CPU architectures on nixCraft
- The bane of GNU Info
- An unexpected FreeBSD 10.1 RC4
- Recording screens with ffmpeg
- Missing FreeBSD map file
- Hey, bash doesn’t exist
- Incomplete bash code injection fix
- Bash code injection vulnerability
- Using xz with newsyslog
- FreeBSD 10 performance
- Disable moused on a FreeBSD Xen guest
- Changing the owner of a symlink
- Initialising regrettable decisions with systemd
- Wheel group for FreeBSD visudo
- Use curl to download image sequences
- FreeBSD 10 PVHVM serial console
- Terminal capability "cm" required
- pkgng repository size
- NTP sanity check
- A basic FreeBSD NAS with netatalk3
- Downloading from multiple sources with aria2
- Linux RdRand
- SaaS cloud encrypting customer data
- FreeBSD and hardware random number generators
- ZFS on FreeBSD supporting TRIM
- FreeBSD 9.2 with vesa in Parallels Desktop 9
- Linux doesn’t have to lose for BSD to win
- bsdtar and xz on one line
- rsync remote command not found
- FreeBSD pkg bootstrap is being restored
- pkgng is now in the FreeBSD Handbook
- Malaysian FreeBSD nostalgia and community
- Changing timezones in CentOS, Fedora, FreeBSD, Yuki
- FreeBSD GPT works just fine on the ThinkPad X40
- pkgin and pkgng for pkgwin
- Belkin F5D7010 works on Fedora and FreeBSD
- HandBrakeCLI start-at and stop-at in
- Point Gnome 3 Contacts to SeaMonkey Address Book
- Make Qt applications match Gnome 3
- BSDInstall is just wonderful
- Merging KDE icons into the Task Manager
- libcxxrt C++ runtime now available under BSD licence
- FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE
- Enlightenment E17 at 1.0!
- A barely qualifying post on DSLness
- I’m an uncool computer scientist
- FreeBSD 8.1 freshly toasted
- hptrr: no controller detected FreeBSD error
- Caution: filename not matched unzip error
- Picking up an MSI P43T-C51 for peanuts!
- Using pushd and popd with tcsh
- Excited, verbose review of Joe’s Own Editor
- Gnome 2.30 has been released, I think
- Unix file compression basics
- Graduating from nvi, kinda
- Only enabling 16 bit PCMCIA in a FreeBSD kernel?
- Trying out the nvi editor
- FreeBSD 8.0 boots on a Toshiba Libretto 70CT
- Tcsh telling me DING!
- unzip need PK compat. v4.5 error thing
- Answering @JJProjects about $100 million
- SuperDrive likes FreeBSD, scared by Fedora
- An ncurses virgin installs it and tries it out
- Answering J-Walk’s clock
- Could KDE 4.4 be enough to win me back?
- An OpenSSH epiphany
- Fun with graphical Links browser
- Restoring damaged FreeBSD boot loaders
- FreeBSD 8.0
- Spreading the FreeBSD 8.0 love
- Late November night ruminations
- Torrenting, downloading FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
- LilyTerm is my favourite terminal emulator!
- Fedora 12 installed and go!
- Friday night shell adventure
- ThinkPad X40 secondary IDE #fail
- Kaspersky’s FreeBSD anti virus! What?
- FreeBSD in new VMware Fusion 3
- FreeBSD in VMware Fusion 3.0 is amazing!
- Freshly toasted VMware Fusion 3 goodness
- Why must external drives behave this way?
- Windows 7 not faster than XP after all
- Rearranging Gnome titlebar buttons
- Mac and FreeBSD guy trying Debian
- MacBook Pro trackpad on OpenSolaris
- Getting around a Windows ban
- 64bit FreeBSD Commander Keen
- Using Gnome icons in the Xfce desktop
- The Midnight Commander… editor?
- Review of Nitrogen background setter and previewer
- Openbox FreeBSD netbook software whatnot
- Xfce 4.6.1’s I18n and bug fix improvements
- If you’ve never tried Midnight Commander…
- Congrats to Gerard van Essen from FreeBSDNews.net
- Netscape reference in FreeBSD
- FreeBSD 7.2 has been released
- Using Herrie to listen to Whole Wheat Radio
- It’s FreeBSD’s documentation, stupid
- My belated review of VirtualBox for Mac
- My belated review of Q.app
- Online monetisation is a misnomer at best
- Moving to Linux from FreeBSD on my Armada M300
- Spread FreeBSD and all that
- Disabling the PC speaker in FreeBSD
- The best tool for the job is the one you can use
- Booting Windows Vista should mean kicking it…
- Quick guide to burning CDs in FreeBSD
- Turning a Firefox story into an anti-Mac story?
- FreeBSD has come a long way on Wikipedia too
- A refreshed Windows disgust rant!
- FreeBSD 7.1 now available!
- Using env in shebang scripting language lines
- My falling out with Microsoft actually explained
- How to forcibly eject drives in Mac OS X
- Brief flirtation with FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro is over
- I can now boot FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro!
- Tips for compiling KDE 4.1 from FreeBSD ports
- My kingdom for a bigger notebook hard drive
- Google Chrome goodness!
- Networking issue to blame for poor VMware Fusion BSD performance?
- VMware Fusion 2.0 beta2 with FreeBSD review
- Western Digital MyBook DHCP adventure
- Backing up CDs to ISOs on FreeBSD
- FreeBSD AMD64 is good for you
- Tunneling X11 through SSH on Mac OS X
- Fun with Xfce part 4: Using Openbox
- Fun with Xfce, part three
- Fun with Xfce, part two
- Fun with Xfce, part one
- Latest computer book haul
- VIM security note for FreeBSD folks
- KDE user moving his main machine to GNOME
- Zip and rar archives in Gnome
- NTP primer on FreeBSD, NetBSD
- FreeBSD on an Armada M300 rocks
- On Adobe Air, limited accounts, updating, BSD
- Spreadsheet adventures (and Excel 08 sucks!)
- Well there you go, the K does mean something
- Cutting Mono out of GNOME on FreeBSD
- My Windows Vista Home Premium adventure
- Ironic Adobe FreeBSD advertising
- Dodgy Windows virus scanner on FreeBSD!
- Sleek Openbox in KDE on FreeBSD
- Debian Etch for 5, then back to Slackware
- Powered by FreeBSD case sticker
- Faulty Intel DQ35JO motherboard fun
- KDE 3.5.8 font registration fun
- Adobe Air musings and so forth
- The mysterious little DFE-670TXD
- Mahalo is just plain silly
- Another look at NetBSD
- Trolltech revises permitted Qt licences!
- Enabling UTF8 in Nano
- Learning FreeBSD, FreeBSD 6 Unleashed
- FreeBSD verbose package installation
- VMware Fusion Beta 3 released
- X11, FreeBSD, Parallels Desktop, xorg.conf
- FreeBSD guy tries and likes Slackware Linux!
- Mikuru, Fluxbox with ROX-Filer on FreeBSD
- FreeBSD Boleh!
- KDE user tries Gnome after 8 years!
- Fsck, power surges, journaling, FreeBSD
- Creating FreeBSD boot disks on Mac OS X
- Haruhi Suzumiya dancing on FreeBSD?
- Parallels Desktop FreeBSD issues
- Operating Systems Ranked