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FreeBSD Jails Containers
FreeBSD networking and containers (Jails) stacks are very mature and provide lots of useful features … yet for some reason these features are not properly advertised by the FreeBSD project &#…
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200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop
Recently I came across Lunduke post about some mysterious Vendefoul Wolf Linux distribution that uses 217 MB RAM with Devuan as base (no systemd(1) here) and XLibre X11 server along with IceWM wind…
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Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions
After playing/working with computers for more then 25 years I started to appreciate small but handy valuable stuff – like adapters or handlers or … yeah – all kind of stuff. With …
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FreeBSD Home Audio Studio
Another guest post by @NeoMoevius from Twitter. Same as earlier with the Native Urban Terror on FreeBSD article. This time it will be about setting up Home Audio Studio on a FreeBSD 13.1 system. Th…
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What FreeBSD can offer compared to other operating systems (2020)
I really wanted to make this article short … but I failed miserably. At least I tried to organize it well so one may get back to it after ‘some’ reading because its not a short le…
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150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation
Sometimes an article starts with a simple question or a single message on one of the available social platforms. This is the case today with this article where @ooberober asked: How small can the r…
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FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization
The Bhyve FreeBSD hypervisor (called/spelled ‘beehive’ usually) was created almost 10 years ago. Right now it offers speed and features that other similar solutions provide – such…
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FreeBSD Suspend/Resume
I have been using FreeBSD on the desktops/laptops since about 20 years now and I have described all that I configured in the FreeBSD Desktop series. About 1 year ago I shared a video on YouTube and…
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AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded
My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running – it will now be my kids computer … so I needed a new one … but not a bigger one :) I spent way too much time finding…
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Pause/unpause any X11 application
Many desktop oriented operating systems try to provide various usability improvements and features, like quite useful Expose or Dashboard in Mac OS X or useless Tiles concept in recent editions of …
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Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM
I want to make this clear in the first sentence because its biggest chance that people will read it – this article is entirely based on work done by Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz) that wro…
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Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
When was the last time you played a computer game? I really like one of Benjamin Franklin quotes – “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.̶…
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FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)
I used to run FreeBSD on older laptops – some more then a decade old – like my favorite ThinkPad W520 daily driver or ThinkPad X220 mobile companion. Today I will share with you my expe…