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<article class="post-text h-entry hentry postpage" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Article"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title" itemprop="headline name"><a href="#" class="u-url">Back to FreeBSD aka Day 1</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="#" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2014-03-12T04:03:05-06:00" itemprop="datePublished" title="2014-03-12">2014-03-12</time></a></p>
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<p>So, a long time ago, I had a box which was running FreeBSD 4, running
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on a Pentium. This housed my public server, website, and mail server.
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After I while, I had to rebuild it, and went back to Linux.</p>
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<p>14 years later, I have decided to get back into FreeBSD, now at
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FreeBSD 10. I have it running headless on two boxes, and I have
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decided to take the '30 Day Challenge'. You know, all the bloggers
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tell you to try something for 30 days before you give up on it.</p>
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<p>I am going to try to give FreeBSD a go as my daily driver for 30 (or
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so) days. I cannot do this full time, as I so Linux support in my day
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job, so I cannot change over the work laptop (yet). I have installed
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<a href="http://www.pcbsd.org" title="PCBSD">PCBSD10</a> on one of my spare laptops. Why PCBSD and not pure
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FreeBSD? Well, I do not know enough yet to get past UEFI boot and the
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NVidia/Intel dual graphics, so I cheated. I imagine that I before
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the end, I will either reload this laptop or start from scratch on my
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current daily personal driver.</p>
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<p>So, most of my cli tools came over very cleanly, with the exception of
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abook. On Linux, I track the git repo, and the version in the
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ports tree is a bit older, so I will need to either compile it from
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git, or change my config to use the older version. But the rest,
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mutt, tmux, newsbeauter, irssi, and such, all work out of the box.</p>
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<p>In the X department, PCBSD has my current favorite window-manager, i3,
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so that is all good. The only issue I hit is the version of firefox
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in the PCBSD port tree is broken, and I am going to stay away from the
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something under windows, i.e. install the app, and all the libraries
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it needs to run. In my option, a waste of space, and un-patched
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libraries on my system. Thank you, I will pass. I ended up enabling
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the normal FreeBSD ports tree to install it.</p>
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<p>I have ported most of my custom scripts over. Most of the work is in
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the fact that bash lives somewhere different (/usr/local/bin vs /bin).
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There are a few commands either missing or I have not installed them
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yet, and a couple of core commands have very different syntax.</p>
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<p>I figure for most of what I do, this will be very easy to switch over,
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but the main area I am unsure of at this point is in photo editing and
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photo management. I use a commercial Linux package, and I will need
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to figure out how to make it work under the Linux compatibility layer.</p>
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<p>I do not promise daily updates, but I will try to keep a journal of my
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