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Posts from 2017
Over year six my visitor count skyrocketed: In all years except the first one, my blog had had around 7,000 page hits. 2017 saw over _32,000_. This was due to two series of articles that were very well received: One about an experiment of exploring and updating an ancient FreeBSD 4.11 system and one about building your own little home router. With 8 posts straight, the latter was also my longest up to this point. I also wrote about jails as well as package management and ports on FreeBSD and a couple of other things.
In this post I write about legacy systems in the IT in general and about installing FreeBSD 4.11 in particular.
In this post I describe how to configure the system for remote connection, how to bootstrap pkgsrc, install subversion and update the system to FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE.
This third post of this mini series is mostly about updating OpenSSH and getting newer compilers installed.
The final part of this mini series deals with updating a lot of the programs installed previously to recent releases. The most important one is a current version of OpenSSH.
This post introduces FreeBSD jails and gives a very short overview of the various jail management frameworks that there are.
The second part deals with how to use iocage in general and details putting a FreeBSD 4.11 system into a jail on FreeBSD 11.0!
This post discusses the need for a custom built home router and shows how to assemble the APU2c4 board properly into a case.
This is an article about the serial console and the history of TTYs, terminals as well as terminal emulators.
This article shows how to connect to a headless device using the serial console. It also shows how to optionally flash a new firmware on the APU2.
A little howto on installing pfSense.
This howto shows the installation of OPNsense.
This article attempts to provide some information useful to decide on which of the two products you want to use.
In this howto manual OPNsense installation is performed that creates two slices (MBR partitions), a user is created and connection via OpenSSH allowed.
The last article of this series deals with fixing swap on the advanced installation, creating a ZFS pool and datasets and building the iocell jail manager from ports.
This is the "fifth birthday" article. I'm looking back at the first half-decade of blogging, the shift from Linux to BSD and from the humble beginnings to the exciting most recent events.
This article deals with the questions: Where do the package management tools for Unix-like systems really come from? And what was *nix like before they were invented?
Want to quickly get to know the basics of FreeBSD package management and some explanations about the background of the Pkg tool? This post might be for you.
This post builds upon the previous one, giving some more examples on how to use Pkg. A large part deals with doing updates.
This post gives a general introduction to FreeBSD's _Ports system_ for the newcomer.
The second part of the introduction to using FreeBSD's ports system discusses actually working with ports. It covers configuring, building and installing from ports as well as using recursive operations.
This article tries to sum up what the essence of copyleft and permissive licenses is. It's meant as a neutral introduction into the topic.
We definitely have a problem with email spam today. Fighting spam is a necessity. But what if spam fighters are abusing their power to actually threaten the the business of innocent people? Unfortunately this is not a hypothetical question...