Posted on Sat 23 December 2023 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, performance
FreeBSD 14 was released a few weeks ago. One of my home servers has been running FreeBSD for many years. The system has been upgraded from version to version and works like a charm. Some jails are used to separate services provided by the box and ZFS as a file …
Posted on Thu 27 December 2018 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD
When I was sorting out some old photos, I came over one showing my old Alpha 800. I found it at my father’s company when I was still in school. They didn't use it anymore back in that days and I …
Posted on Sun 17 May 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, link.work, workshop
Last Friday I held the first FreeBSD workshop in our new link.work location in Landshut. It was a lot of fun for the 12 participant and me.
The first workshop introduced the FreeBSD basics and the installation procedure. It was a hands on workshop which means that everyone had …
Posted on Mon 13 April 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, Installparty, workshop
Today I want to announce that I will organize a small FreeBSD workshop on 15 May 2015 in our new link.work location in Landshut near Munich, Germany. The link.work is a center of IT-companies and software developers. My company called BayCIX is one of the five founders of …
Posted on Fri 16 January 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, KeePass, mono, security
Using a password safe can make the life much easier. You can store your passwords encrypted for each service and if you need a new password, there is a password generator included as well.
To have the same password safe on all Linux/Mac/BSD machines you can use KeePass …
Posted on Mon 05 January 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with development, FreeBSD, FreeBSD CURRENT
When I installed FreeBSD, I stumbled over a bug with my T420. I now want to help fix it or to implement a workaround for my T420 to use it with gpt and ZFS-Root, Therefor I needed to setup a development environment for FreeBSD on my Thinkpad. To make this …
Posted on Sun 04 January 2015 in FreeBSD • Tagged with audio, ffmpeg, FreeBSD, kdenlive, maya usb 22, microphone, oss, screen cast, video
This tutorial shows you how you can use kdenlive on FreeBSD to create a screen cast. I am using a Maya 22 USB to record speech from a Rode microphone. This works fine, too.
If you have ffmpeg already installed you need to check if …
Posted on Fri 21 November 2014 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeBSD, KDE, kdm, nvidia, nvidia-driver, UEFI
This tutorial is about installing the latest stable FreeBSD 10.1 with UEFI and run a desktop with KDE with a NVIDIA video card.
With my motherboard is does not work to boot UEFI if the CMS compatibly mode is turned off completely. Someone else second this problem …
Posted on Wed 15 October 2014 in FreeBSD • Tagged with ACPI, FreeBSD, gpt, T420, Thinkpad T420, Xorg
This post is about installing FreeBSD 10.1 RC2 or FreeBSD 11 - CURRENT on a Thinkpad T420 with Intel graphics. This is for testing only up to now!
The T420 comes with an unpatched BIOS/UEFI bug which prevents to boot from a default …
Posted on Thu 21 August 2014 in FreeBSD • Tagged with Nginx, openssl, ssl, tls
The guys from bsdnow.tv did a great job by putting together a tutorial with some more details on a proper Nginx configuration and a very good choice for SSL parameters. There where some parts I didn't know neither and the tutorial is create as always.
If you want to …