Posted on So 17 Mai 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 Mo 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 Fr 16 Januar 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 Mo 05 Januar 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 So 04 Januar 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 Fr 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 Mi 15 Oktober 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 Sa 30 August 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with NetworkManager, OpenVPN, SELinux
On a Fedora or CentOS system with enables selinux you need to store your certificate and configuration in /etc/openvpn to avoid selinux is blocking the access of NetworkManager to this files. There is a way of setting some sebooleans to allow selinux to read them from user home directories …
Posted on Di 26 August 2014 in Blogging • Tagged with email, infrastructure, Jabber, Tor
Even if you're not a familiar with configuring complex computer systems, there are easy ways to get started. Go to your local Linux User Group or search the web for groups in your town that help others with technical problems. Start to read blogs and tutorials about running an email …
Posted on Sa 23 August 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with Fedora, Grub, initrd, iscsi, network boot
Today I had a nice discussion with someone on the Fedora IRC channel about a problem booting from an USB stick with an iSCSI root filesystem and a bridged interface. He was facing the problem that the brctl tool was not available at boot time. CentOS and Fedora are using …