Updating FreeBSD from source
Sometimes I need to update my FreeBSD operating system. I prefer to do that from the source code, so that …
Sometimes I need to update my FreeBSD operating system. I prefer to do that from the source code, so that …
More and more, IPython has become my tool of choice as the ultimate calculator and to try out concepts and …
These days it is commonplace to have hardware or software RAID1, even in common PCs. In previous machines I’ve …
Recently I updated my workstation to FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p1. Since my laptop runs the same OS, I wanted …
Every now and then I make backups of my FreeBSD system’s filesystems with the
venerable dump
program. This is …
There have been some changes in the FreeBSD update process. The
csup
program has been retired, source code updating is …
Now that I’ve switched to FreeBSD 9.0, I thought I’d repeat the write speed test I did …
Recently the question came up how fast the write speed of a disk drive on FreeBSD should be. I decided …
When running a virtual server in a jail, one would like to avoid replication of files as much as practical …
Updating my desktop to 8.1-RELEASE from 8.0 was pretty straightforward. I used the following steps