TOC Preamble Poudriere installation Removing unwanted dependencies More complex examples of deWaylandization Ports flavors Patching Makefile Results and thoughts Notes Preamble My everyday FreeBSD system has two good old components for graphics and sound — the X Server and the OSS. There are simple reasons to use these components — they are mature, they have tons of user documentation, use case examples, etc. I also like the way these things have been used in the FreeBSD world. Le...| Dragon’s notes
My interest in storage is longstanding—I loved playing with different file systems in my early Unix days and then I worked on Google’s and Microsoft’s distributed storage solutions—and, about four years ago, I started running a home-grown NAS leveraging FreeBSD and its excellent ZFS support. I first hosted the server on a PowerMac G5 and then upgraded it to an overkill 72-core ThinkStation that I snapped second-hand for a great price. But as stable and low maintenance as FreeBSD is, r...| Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
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