Category: Operating Systems
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FreeBSD Part 4
Today, I am getting my development environment all set up. I wanted to use VS Code, but it wasn’t in the pkg system for 12.1. So I tried to use the ports system, however, the 49GB slice I have for my /usr folder was filling up — fast. OK, so instead I decided to see…
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FreeBSD Part 3: Boot Loading
So one of my laptops is a ThinkPad Yoga that I use Windows 10, Fedora, and FreeBSD. The adventure was figuring out how to get FreeBSD to boot. I am using GRUB2 from my Fedora installation to chainload the bootloader. To do that, I had to add the following entry to the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file. After…
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The BSDs and System V
NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. They are all fun. They are different than Linux. I am of course talking about the kernel rather than the GNU software that is typically available on all of them. The BSDs have a vintage feel about them. I like it. I wish that it was easier to try System V…
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FreeBSD Part 2
So I tried FreeBSD in VirtualBox. Step 2 was to try and install it on my Thinkpad. Unfortunately, I am having boot issues. Perhaps it was too many operating systems. I deleted everything but Windows 10 and then reinstalled Fedora 29. I may try again on my Intel NUC that I am currently using PopOS…
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Playing with FreeBSD 12
So my use case is run FreeBSD in VirtualBox in Windows. The first experiment ended up in failure, but not because I was using Windows, rather because I can’t get the X server to behave. So I will need to attempt this again. I will say that my goal is to do 3D graphics and…