Building vkQuake 1.22.0 on FreeBSD
The FreeBSD port is relatively old, and doesn’t support SDL 2.2. So I built version 1.22.0, which is current at the time of writing.
The requirements are the same als the port.
The FreeBSD port is relatively old, and doesn’t support SDL 2.2. So I built version 1.22.0, which is current at the time of writing.
The requirements are the same als the port.
This is a repeat of the test I ran in 2020 on the same desktop hardware, but now using the …
When I originally got this machine, I needed it for $WORK. That is no longer the case, so I wanted to install FreeBSD 13.1 in combination with ZFS to gain experience with the latter.
TL;DR Nice and quiet. Slightly faster than my i7-7700 workstation. Except for wifi, everything works.
At work I’ve been using several different USB headsets. Let’s see if they work on FreeBSD.
As a real-world benchmark I rebuilt the FreeBSD OS after the most recent published vulnerabilities.
Although I have a battery indicator on the bottom of my laptop screen I don’t alway check that often enough. That’s why I wanted to add an extra warning in the form of an audio signal. So even if I’m turned away from the laptop, it should still catch my attention.
On FreeBSD, ports save their configuration parameters under /var/db/ports
.
When you de-install a port, this configuration remains behind.
This is how to clean old configurations up.
Sometimes I’m too hasty with updating ported applications, and I need to roll
them back to a working version.
Since I use svnlite
to manage my ports tree, this is relatively easy.
But since it is different than I’m used to (since I mostly use git
),
I thought I would document it here for convenience.