So, I am starting a new personal project at the house, and I need a new server. As I was wanting to learn more about the *BSD, I started looking around at things like FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD.
- -Since there was a security part, I started with OpenBSD. One of -the things I noticed quickly while doing my research is that while -there is a lot of documentation, they do not really seem to care about -making it easy for new folks to join the project, nor are the trying -to support new-fangled hardware, like bootable USB -drives. -This strikes me odd, as FreeBSD has instructions (see -2.3.5).
- -Since I want to use pf, I am going to stay with OpenBSD for now.
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- -It is all tagged with -cli -for easy searching, plus I added a whole mess of other tags.
- -Enjoy.
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- -Oh, and Happy New Year!
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- -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 -PCBSD10 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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- -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, 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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- -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 and this blog post is that I can have a fancy screensaver at the console! Pretty rad. :) Next steps will be improving the screen resolution in text-mode.
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- -I have also been playing with x11/xpra which bills itself as 'screen for X11'. That, combined with sshuttle, lets me get in from work and do some work during lunch. It may also give me a tempory way to use AfterShotPro 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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diff --git a/posts/2014/03/201403freebsd-challenge-day-3.meta b/posts/2014/03/201403freebsd-challenge-day-3.meta deleted file mode 100644 index 7b1a71b5..00000000 --- a/posts/2014/03/201403freebsd-challenge-day-3.meta +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -.. title: FreeBSD Challenge, Day 3 -.. slug: 201403freebsd-challenge-day-3 -.. date: 2014/03/14 05:03:44 -.. tags: FreeBSD,sa,30DayChallenge -.. link: -.. description: diff --git a/posts/2014/03/201403freebsd-challenge-day-4-6.html b/posts/2014/03/201403freebsd-challenge-day-4-6.html deleted file mode 100644 index ca0d361c..00000000 --- a/posts/2014/03/201403freebsd-challenge-day-4-6.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ -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, 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 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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- -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 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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- -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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- -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, which is an awesome video/audio podcast on all things BSD.
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- -It is called HTMLy. This should let me update this a bit more. But, I have said that before.
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