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date = "2014-03-12T04:03:05-07:00"
title = "Back to FreeBSD aka Day 1"
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So, a long time ago, I had a box which was running FreeBSD 4, running on
a Pentium. This housed my public server, website, and mail server. After
I while, I had to rebuild it, and went back to Linux.
14 years later, I have decided to get back into FreeBSD, now at FreeBSD
10. I have it running headless on two boxes, and I have decided to take
the \'30 Day Challenge\'. You know, all the bloggers tell you to try
something for 30 days before you give up on it.
I am going to try to give FreeBSD a go as my daily driver for 30 (or so)
days. I cannot do this full time, as I so Linux support in my day job,
so I cannot change over the work laptop (yet). I have installed
[PCBSD-10](http://www.pcbsd.org) on one of my spare laptops. Why PCBSD
and not pure FreeBSD? Well, I do not know enough yet to get past UEFI
boot and the NVidia/Intel dual graphics, so I cheated. I imagine that I
before the end, I will either reload this laptop or start from scratch
on my current daily personal driver.
So, most of my cli tools came over very cleanly, with the exception of
abook. On Linux, I track the git repo, and the version in the ports tree
is a bit older, so I will need to either compile it from git, or change
my config to use the older version. But the rest, mutt, tmux,
newsbeauter, irssi, and such, all work out of the box.
In the X department, PCBSD has my current favorite window-manager, i3,
so that is all good. The only issue I hit is the version of firefox in
the PCBSD port tree is broken, and I am going to stay away from the PBI
as much as I can. I feel that PBI are too much like installing something
under windows, i.e. install the app, and all the libraries it needs to
run. In my option, a waste of space, and un-patched libraries on my
system. Thank you, I will pass. I ended up enabling the normal FreeBSD
ports tree to install it.
I have ported most of my custom scripts over. Most of the work is in the
fact that bash lives somewhere different (/usr/local/bin vs /bin). There
are a few commands either missing or I have not installed them yet, and
a couple of core commands have very different syntax.
I figure for most of what I do, this will be very easy to switch over,
but the main area I am unsure of at this point is in photo editing and
photo management. I use a commercial Linux package, and I will need to
figure out how to make it work under the Linux compatibility layer.
I do not promise daily updates, but I will try to keep a journal of my
progress.

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date = "2014-03-27T05:03:20-07:00"
title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 12-15"
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Half-way point.
Much progress made in the world of a bootable USB stick to get my
new-fangled WiFi chip working. I was able to make a new image, wrote it
to a new USB stick, booted it, and was able to successfully scan for my
Access Points! W00t!
Tomorrow, I will take the second laptop (HP EliteBook Revolve 810), and
load it with 10-Release (slightly patched). I do not expect everything
to work (it has a touch screen), but enough should work that I can start
using it for the daily driver. Having real wifi will help a lot.
My updates have been a bit slow due to craziness at work. I am taking a
trip, and the departure date has been reset many times. I am on my 5th
set of airline tickets. With things settled, I need to decide if I am
going to bring the second laptop (the R180) with me or not. Weight
issues and all.
How do I think this is going? Well, the two major issues I thought I
would have going in, WiFi and Photo editing/management, are for the most
part solved. Can I use this for my daily non-work driver? Yes. Can I use
it for my work daily driver? Maybe. I have set up a few jails on the
FreeNAS box (btsync, dns/dhcp, [taskwarrior\'s
taskd](http://taskwarrior.org/docs/server_setup.html), and Plex), and
they are mainly working well together (the Plex will not play nice with
btsync, yet), but I need to figure out a bit more, and set it up as a
target to backup my laptop\'s ZFS snapshots.
Next steps are to find those performance monitoring tools/docs, and to
look at something like puppet/chef/salt.
Thanks for reading\....

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date = "2014-03-29T05:03:18-07:00"
title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 16"
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Busy day with other things than play computers, but I found a little
time. I have FreeBSD 10-STABLE loaded with the custom WiFi hack on my
[Elitebook Revolve
810](http://notebookplanet.blogspot.com/2013/04/hp-elitebook-revolve-810-g1-tablet.html)
. I would have to let it try to boot off the USB stick. After multiple
tries, it would finally run the installer. I tried ZFS a few times, but
if I did not select MBR format for the partition table, then it would
not boot (no OS error). With MBR and ZFS, it would fail to mount the ZFS
filesystem with \<strong\>error 2\</strong\>. After trying the various
fixes listed on-line, I gave up and went with MBR and UFS.
Once installed, it was fairly easy to get going. I have not configured
it to take on the role of daily driver yet. If I have time tomorrow,
then I will do it then, otherwise, it will have to wait a bit as I am
getting on a plane this weekend, and I will not have room for the second
computer. I will try to get it as far as I can with ssh.
The neat thing I found based on [this email post from
2005](http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-April/083317.html)
and [this blog post](http://www.freebsdonline.com/content/view/829/524/)
is that I can have a fancy screensaver at the console! Pretty rad. :)
Next steps will be improving the screen resolution in
text-mode.\</body\>\</html\>

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Just a quick update. Yesterday, I got abook working. Kind of a hack,
though. I used gcc to compile it, vs. clang. I will have to revisit this
and offer up some patches to the abook project.
I have also been playing with **x11/xpra** which bills itself as
\'screen for X11\'. That, combined with
[sshuttle](https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle) , lets me get in from
work and do some work during lunch. It may also give me a tempory way to
use
[AfterShotPro](http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4670071&amp;cid=catalog20038&amp;segid=6000006)
until I get the whole Linux compatability layer thing figured out.
Next up is learing how to use *ports(7)* working to be able to install
**10-STABLE** while the host is **10-RELEASE**.
Yes, my issues are not normal. :)

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No major work on the laptop today because I set up a FreeNAS box. I was
able to get 4 x 3T drives, and set it up. Pretty easy. I am now busy
moving my media over to it.

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Sorry\...busy time at work and with the family.
Small updates: I have the external VGA dongle working. No config needed,
just plug it in and it works. I really need to fix the WiFi so I can
stop using the USB dongle on it. Also, I have updated mutt to 1.5.23,
and that upgrade went smoothly. Since I am not using the default build,
it was a matter of *portsnap fetch && portsnap update && cd
/usr/ports/mail/mutt && pkg remove mutt && make install clean* and all
is good!
My biggest update is that I got AfterShotPro working! It as a simple as
reading the pages in the
[manual](http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html),
and changing the path to bash in the launcher script, and all is good! I
should really look into what it takes to make a port so when I set up
the next few computers, I will not have to do this by hand again.
Next thing to figure out is how to get the sound to come out of my
headphones instead of the speakers. Since I did not have to do anything
to get sound, I figure this is just a bit of RTFM\'ing on my part.

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AKA Fight with Thunderbird and Lightning.
I broke down and installed a PBI for now. I could not get Lightning, the
calendaring AddOn for Thunderbird to work using the native FreeBSD pkg
or the linux-thunderbird one. The linux-thunderbird package actually
refused to start for me. I need to go figure out how to generate a PR.
The other thing I am playing with is building a memstick image after
patching the kernel using this
[post](https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=35467) in the FreeBSD
Forums. This is for the **Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi Driver**
which I have in all my laptops. The data wants to be free! from wires.
Since it is chunking away, I will test tomorrow.

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Again, work is dragging, so not much to update.
I have install btsync and I am now syncing home dirs between the laptop,
desktop, and the FreeNAS.
My attempt to build a custom kernel to deal with the new WiFi was mixed.
I was able to build the kernel and world just fine and it made a USB
image for me. But, it would not boot\...I do need to figure out how to
debug this. :)

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date = "2014-03-22T17:03:03-07:00"
title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 9-11"
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Ah, life with kids\...not enough spare time with soccer and volleyball
practices and games.
Things are going well. Found a few more small utilities that I use under
Linux and added them via pkgng, and all is good.
Next up: system debugging. The system will slow down at random points,
so I need to go find a good performance debug guide. The only thing
changed was I imported my music library (\~60G), but my drive is still
plenty empty (\~37% used), so I do not think it is ZFS, but I am not
sure.
The other is the custom boot stick I made does not work. The initial
loader will start, but then it stops. So, I need to find the docs on the
boot process there.
Oh, and welcome to all the folks from [BSDNow](http://bsdnow.tv), which
is an awesome video/audio podcast on all things BSD.

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title = "New CMS (Again)"
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Still not going with a database on the back-end, but this one has a cool
real-time visualization editor.
It is called [HTMLy](http://www.htmly.com/). This should let me update
this a bit more. But, I have said that before.