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As a long time IRC connoisseur, I started with mIRC in the '90s, moved on to irssi , and most recently, running WeeChat in a VM. After migrating my VMs to a FreeBSD server using bhyve I realized that the next step is to utilize jails, and that my WeeChat setup would be perfect for a test run. Goals With this setup, I get the best of all worlds. When I'm out and about I have access from my phone…
There are many options for virtual machine hosts like Hyper-V , XCP-ng , Proxmox , VirtualBox , VMware , and KVM . I've worked with all of them except for bhyve . I'm going to configure a micro PC with FreeBSD to run bhyve VMs, and migrate those VMs from two existing Proxmox servers. The goal today is to start with a fresh FreeBSD install, configure DragonFly Mail Agent, smartmontools, vm-bhyve,…
I've been using Linux since 1997, and for the past 8 years, I've also been running FreeBSD on my NAS server. Recently, I decided to switch from running Proxmox to FreeBSD on my micro PCs. Initially, I started writing a guide to document this process, but it kept growing and remained unpublished. So I decided to break it down into separate posts. This is the first in a series documenting various…
I had a bit of a hard time trying to find some tasteful wallpapers that weren't too busy, so I made my own! Download FreeBSD wallpapers in 8k (7680x4320) The Logo was obtained from FreeBSD Foundation Project Logo page. The FreeBSD logo is trademarked . Update 2024-11-13: Thanks to vermaden for pointing out a nice collection of FreeBSD UNIX Wallpapers !
I have lived in an apartment that caught fire, a house where the basement flooded, another basement apartment that suffered frequent flooding whenever it rained, and just when I thought I was safe in a 20th floor high rise the sprinkler system malfunctioned and flooded several floors. I've been fortunate enough to avoid catastrophic data loss from these events, but I've been wanting to set up a…