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 many of them I did not even knew they existed until I find out about them – mostly accidentally or af … | Continue reading
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 in … | Continue reading
I really wanted to do that Firefox guide earlier but always other things came up as usual. But that also has some upsides. Yes – I used the Firefox logo from 2009 (some reported it is from 2013) as I believe it looks a lot better then the current one … below You can check […] | Continue reading
Lets start with information that I did not created that config. This Ansible oriented config was handed to me by one of my mates from the Linux world … and as it takes some steps needed to make it work specific only to FreeBSD – I thought that it may be a good reason to […] | Continue reading
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 in … | Continue reading
Many times I wrote about FreeIPA/IDM – but I have one problem with it – its not currently possible to run FreeIPA on FreeBSD … so I searched for other open source alternatives and found Keycloak. What surprised me even more is that its even available in the FreeBSD Ports as net/k … | Continue reading
In the open source world everything lives/evolves/changes. This is why the new version of connecting latest FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE system to the FreeIPA/IDM is needed. One of the things that changed is that security/sssd is now deprecated and security/sssd2 is its successor. Also ne … | Continue reading
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 in … | Continue reading
Almost 5 years ago – in my older job – I wrote about creating FreeBSD Enterprise 1 PB Storage solution. I no longer work there but one of my mates from there contacted me with interesting problem. The FreeBSD system was installed on two Intel DC S3500 240 GB SSD drives in ZFS mir … | Continue reading
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 in … | Continue reading
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 or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount infor … | Continue reading
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 or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount infor … | Continue reading
Last time when I wrote Tiny UPS for Tiny NAS – I fucked up. I did not tested the solution enough and provided false information – I apologize for that. This time I did the homework and after I get many comments and recommendations I decided to try two other solutions that actuall … | Continue reading
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 or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount infor … | Continue reading
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 or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount infor … | Continue reading
Before You start reading I must disappoint You – using Baseus 100W 20000mAh powerbank (described in this article below) would not work properly as UPS. After some research I have described at least two working solutions in the follow up article – Tiny UPS for Tiny NAS Reloaded – … | Continue reading
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 as KVM/VMware/XEN. You can check all the details in the FreeBSD Handbook for details. One of the las … | Continue reading
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 got used to work on the laptops in the last 10+ years or so. I did not had a desktop … | Continue reading
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 … or not even documented at all. I remember when Solaris was still under Sun before ‘fatal’ … | Continue reading
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 experiences of running latest production ready FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE system on a quite modern ThinkP … | Continue reading
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. The idea is to use software like: Jack – audio/jack Qtractor – audio/qtractor Ardour … | Continue reading
Some of them use more RAM. Some less. Today in a rather simplified benchmark I will check some popular desktop environments for their RAM usage. I recently came to see some more or less old compari… | Continue reading
That question has been asked and answered many times … but the answer was not always obvious to everyone. Also today is the FreeBSD day – FreeBSD was created exactly 29 years ago –… | Continue reading
HardenedBSD is a security enhanced fork of FreeBSD which happened in 2014. HardenedBSD is implementing many exploit mitigation and security technologies on top of FreeBSD which all started with imp… | Continue reading
There are two approaches to making your life more automated about installing multiple instances of operating systems. You can either maintain up-to-date templates for them or you can have automated… | Continue reading
The best free filesystem on Earth – ZFS – also often named OpenZFS recently – has also become very portable in recent years of its development. The OpenZFS Distributions page list… | Continue reading
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 up… | Continue reading
I really like GhostBSD … and NomadBSD. They are really great graphical and easy to use FreeBSD variants for the lack of better word. While NomadBSD is more focused on portable USB pendrive ed… | Continue reading
This article was in my ‘TODO’ list since almost start of this blog several years ago. Usually I try to focus on positive side of things but this article is one way highway quite the opp… | Continue reading
By default Chromium on OpenBSD (not so) recently got OpenBSD’s unveil(2) support. That means that of you run Chromium with –enable-unveil flag then it will be prevented from accessing a… | Continue reading
While most hardcore UNIX users prefer keyboard shortcuts over anything else – and I often align with that view – I really do appreciate good mouse on my UNIX system. In the end its clos… | Continue reading
For years I thought that online video conferencing and/or meetings would not be possible on FreeBSD. One of the first things I done on each of my laptops was to disable Camera and Microphone (along… | Continue reading
Some time ago when I was mostly writing about Openbox setup I also showed how to setup xterm(1) so it will start with new random theme with each start. Since then I reworked that feature a little a… | Continue reading
The Ghost in the Shell series were quite neglected while I was busy writing about other things. Its about time to continue the series. I hope you are not mad at me because of it. Here are another f… | Continue reading
More then a decade ago when I started to use X11 as a desktop – on Linux then with KDE3 and later with Fluxbox. At first I thought that files are opened by appropriate applications not by the… | Continue reading
I do not use notifications. Dunno really why – seems I just did not needed them. The idea of Do Not Disturb Mode on the desktop/laptop is very strange to me as I ALWAYS work in the Do Not Dis… | Continue reading
Yes you read it correctly. The fabulous ZFS Boot Environments – more about them here – – if you are not familiar with this concept – are now also possible on UFS filesystems… | Continue reading
About two years ago I have made a guide for really old GlusterFS 3.11 version that was available back then on FreeBSD 12.0. Recently I noticed that GlusterFS version in FreeBSD Ports (and packages)… | Continue reading
I am known as a strong ZFS Boot Environment supported … and not without a reason. I have stated the reasons ‘why’ many times but most (or all) of them are condensed here – &… | Continue reading
I like to post new articles and solutions when I think they are ready. Production tested and stable. Well thought and tested … or at least trying to make things as good as possible in the ava… | Continue reading
The FreeBSD Desktop series are about creating efficient desktop environment on the FreeBSD system. Why such series? Because telling someone who wants FreeBSD desktop to buy Mac instead is like tell… | Continue reading
Today I will show you how to configure unbound(8) to block spam/malicious/malware domains at DNS level. I will use FreeBSD for that purpose but you can use any system that unbound(8) runs on. Earli… | Continue reading
This article is dedicated to Abraham Joseph who recently asked me if I could make an article on how to configure GNOME 3 on FreeBSD 12.2. At the moment 12.2-RC3 version is available so that is what… | Continue reading
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.̶… | Continue reading
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… | Continue reading
I always missed ‘proper’ cluster software for FreeBSD systems. Recently I got to run several Pacemaker/Corosync based clusters on Linux systems. I thought how to make similar high avail… | Continue reading
Those who know me know that I am a bit fan of the oldschool Lenovo ThinkPad laptops with real 7-row keyboards. I own several *20 models from 2011 including W520, T420s and X220 ones. They still roc… | Continue reading
Yesterday I was honored to give a talk about FreeBSD Enterprise Storage at the Polish BSD User Group meeting. You are invited to download the PDF Slides – – available here. The PBUG (Polish BSD Use… | Continue reading