One of the things that makes FreeBSD an amazing operating system is its package manager, pkg(8). Many people will keep arguing with me saying that apt or pacman is better, but pkg has some of the best features out there. Don’t even get me started on number of packages. A friend was telling me “but how can I use FreeBSD when you have 1/3rd number of packages that Debian has?”. Again, this is a lie. While Debian has 80K packages, each software is divided into -doc and -dev, while on FreeB...| antranigv.am
One of the things that makes FreeBSD an amazing operating system is its package manager, pkg(8). Many people will keep arguing with me saying that apt or pacman is better, but pkg has some of the best features out there. Don’t even get me started on number of packages. A friend was telling me “but […]| Antranig Vartanian
Couple of months ago I got my sister a MacBook Air with the new M4 chip, and she was happier than ever. However, I was the happiest, as she gave me her old MacBook Pro 2015.| Antranig Vartanian
Couple of days ago my fiancée was watching an Armenian internet show named “Tany Layva” which roughly translates to “Live at home” that aired during COVID-19. The interesting part for me was not the show itself (frankly speaking I could not care less about Armenia’s pop culture) but the intro music triggered something in me… […]| Antranig Vartanian
Last night I was running our usual Greybeard AMA on FreeBSD’s Discord server, when someone asked “I’ve been using Linux for years, but I also like FreeBSD. what can I do for FreeBSD, and what can FreeBSD do for me, as a Python Full Stack Developer?” I started talking about FreeBSD Jails, ZFS, Boot Environments […]| Antranig Vartanian
You’d think that I would be the last person to do PHP in 2025, but you’d be wrong! Sure, I’ve ignored it for 10 years, but ever since I came back to WordPress couple of years ago, I’ve been a huge PHP fan. I mean, deploying it is easy (compared to the nightmare that’s NodeJS […]| Antranig Vartanian
I woke up today thinking “I can’t believe it’s still January”, and it will still be January for one more day. I actually like it when the year moves slowly. I mean, I know every year is (almost) the same, but I like it when it feels like it’s moving slowly. So, it got me […]| Antranig Vartanian