The FreeBSD Desktop series are about creating efficient desktop environment on the FreeBSD system. It is applicable to all supported FreeBSD versions β you can check which FreeBSD versions arβ¦| ππππππππ
As Roman Zolotarev asked if I would write an entry for his Tell Your BSD Story page I could not refuse. That page was available at the URL but seems that Roman abandoned the bsdjobs.com domain unfoβ¦| ππππππππ
7 posts published by vermaden during July 2023| ππππππππ
Time for real configuration of the status bar. In todayβs article of the FreeBSD Desktop series I will describe how to configure the Dzen2. You may want to check other articles in the FreeBSDβ¦| ππππππππ
When You use only one connection on FreeBSD, then the best practice is to just put its whole configuration into the /etc/rc.conf file, for example typical server redundant connection would look likβ¦| ππππππππ
7 posts published by vermaden during November 2018| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Torrent (full name BitTorrent) is just another protocol just like HTTPS or any other β¦ yet this one is directly perceived as βTHEβ Piracy protocol β while you can download the same things over HTTPS protocol even in more convenient way β without any third party Torrent client or whatsoever. Most/many open source projects [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble uponβ¦| ππππππππ
The Bhyve FreeBSD hypervisor (called/spelled βbeehiveβ usually) was created almost 10 years ago. Right now it offers speed and features that other similar solutions provide β suchβ¦| ππππππππ
2 posts published by vermaden during August 2025| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble uponβ¦| ππππππππ
7 posts published by vermaden during July 2025| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive [β¦]| ππππππππ
The so called PKGBASE is the future of packaging the FreeBSD Base system β and its already implemented and tested in the upcoming 15.0-RELEASE version that will come later this year. You can even decide at the bsdinstall(8) stage if you want to install FreeBSD the βclassicβ way or the PKGBASE way. The PKGBASE is [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble uponβ¦| ππππππππ
I do not have to remind you that I am a big fan of ZFS Boot Environments feature. From the time when I first used it on OpenSolaris and Solaris systems I was really fascinated by it. Bulletproof upβ¦| ππππππππ
While FreeBSD is similar in many concepts to other UNIX systems or to Linux β its good to know exact commands and solutions for various needs. Today I would like to share all of them β after using FreeBSD for about 20 years β both privately and professionally. The Table of Contents looks as follows. [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive [β¦]| ππππππππ
I usually prefer to run Poudriere inside FreeBSD Bhyve VM β its just faster to setup β but as sometimes its desired to use the power of FreeBSD Jails instead β here is how to do this. Host Setup First we will setup the host system. To make things faster we will install the host [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble uponβ¦| ππππππππ
[ NOTICE ] Initially the tool name was jless(8) β but seschwar from page made me aware that there already is a jless project available β command line JSON viewer written in Rust ββ¦| ππππππππ
From many movies I watched in my life I also liked No Country for Old Men (2007) β it resonates with my computer/laptop preferences and what was available on the marker β¦ and what is available right now. I even shared my depressing Epitaph to Laptops take on that. Not long ago I was still [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive [β¦]| ππππππππ
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble uponβ¦| ππππππππ
FreeBSD project started to officially add kernel modules pkg(8) repositories to default installation β starting with FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE version. To understand why they were brought to lightβ¦| ππππππππ
When using FreeBSD on a new laptop you sometimes find out that the WiFi chip that it came with is not supported β¦ or not yet supported in RELEASE version and support exists in CURRENT developβ¦| ππππππππ
9 posts published by vermaden during March 2024| ππππππππ
Nothing compares more to the sense of power UNIX sysadmin experiences when being able to print from a command line on its UNIX system :p I kinda omitted this topic (printing) for quite a lot of timβ¦| ππππππππ
I created whole FreeBSD Desktop series β¦ but I never created an article describing how I run FreeBSD on my own daily driver β the Lenovo ThinkPad W520 from 2011 β the last one witβ¦| ππππππππ
4 posts published by vermaden during June 2025| ππππππππ
This is a follow up to the Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions article. While the original covered quite a lot of small valuable hardware companions β as time passed β I made friends wβ¦| ππππππππ
While I started to use and learn FreeBSD on an oldschool Gigabyte-GA-7DPXDW motherboard (more about that here My FreeBSD Story page) that could handle two AMD AthlonXP CPUs in SMP configuration I gβ¦| ππππππππ
This is the motto of the FreeBSD operating system β The Power to Serve β which also greatly fits for the topic of this article. Decade ago (yes time flies) I even made a wallpaper with β¦| ππππππππ
Today β as my son requested β we will talk about Minecraft server β¦ inside FreeBSD Jails container. This is kinda like Docker/Podman thing on Linux β but secure instead. Preβ¦| ππππππππ
One of my favorite measures for hardware is the βprice/performance ratioβ β to do as much as possible but for as less resources as possible. Hardware Not so long ago I switched toβ¦| ππππππππ
I brought up this topic in the past. It was in the form of more theoretical Silent Fanless FreeBSD Desktop/Server post and more hands-on Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server β DIY Backup article. Onβ¦| ππππππππ
I already once wrote about this topic at the Silent Fanless FreeBSD Desktop/Server article. To my pleasant surprise BSD NOW Episode 253: Silence of the Fans featured my article for which I am very β¦| ππππππππ
Today I will write about silent fanless FreeBSD desktop or server computer β¦ or NAS β¦ or you name it, it can have multiple purposes. It also very low power solution, which also means thβ¦| ππππππππ
Why use quite outdated (released in 2016) Dell Wyse 3030 LT terminal under FreeBSD? There are probably many answers to that question. I recently started to use these for my backup purposes β¦ β¦| ππππππππ
Today I would like to present an article about setting up GlusterFS cluster on a FreeBSD system with Ansible and GNU Parallel tools. To cite Wikipedia βGlusterFS is a scale-out network-attachβ¦| ππππππππ
After playing/working with computers for more then 25 years I started to appreciate small but handy valuable stuff β like adapters or handlers or β¦ yeah β all kind of stuff. With β¦| ππππππππ
Last time when I wrote Tiny UPS for Tiny NAS β I fucked up. I did not tested the solution enough and provided false information β I apologize for that. This time I did the homework and β¦| ππππππππ
Before You start reading I must disappoint You β using Baseus 100W 20000mAh powerbank (described in this article below) would not work properly as UPS. After some research I have described β¦| ππππππππ
