Essen Hackthon 2015 — last day status
I committed the 64bit support for the linux base ports (disabled by default, check the commit message), but this broke the INDEX build. Portmgr was faster than me to revert it. All errors are mine. I...
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Essen Hackathon 2015 — How it looks like
For those curious how it looks like: Clockwise starting from the bottom left: flo, rodrigo, dru, Tux (in the background, acting as a guard-dog^Wpenguin of the Linuxhotel), bcr, lme, kp, brueffer. From...
View ArticleTransition to nginx: part 1, converting Horde webmail
I am a longtime apache user. It may be that I touched apache 1.2 for the first time. Recently I decided to check out nginx. So I decided to do it on my own webmail system. The end result is, I replaced...
View ArticleTransition to nginx: part 2 — converting a gallery v2 installation
In my first transition to nginx I wrote that I was happy about the speed increase I got for my Horde webmail setup. Afterwards I converted a Gallery v2 installation (yes, old, not under active...
View ArticleTransition to nginx: part 3 — short and easy config snippets
After some medium-difficoulty transitions in part 1 and part 2, here some easy ones: phpMyAdmin: take the basics from one of the two other blog posts (see above) without location directives. For...
View ArticleTransition to nginx: part 4 — CGI scripts
I still have some CGI scripts on this website. They still work, and they are good enough for my needs. When I switched this website to nginx (the WordPress setup was a little bit more complex than what...
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HOWTO: “Blind” remote install of FreeBSD via tiny disk image (ZFS edition)
In a past post I described how to install a FreeBSD remotely via a tiny UFS based disk image over a linux system. In this post I describe how to do it with a ZFS based disk image. Invariants Given a...
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iocage: HOWTO create a basejail from src (instead of from an official release)
Background So far I have used ezjail to manage FreeBSD jails. I use jails since years to have different parts of a software stack in some kind of a container (in a ZFS dataset for the filesystem side...
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Essen Hackathon 2018
Again this time of the year where we had the pleasure of doing the Essen Hackathon in a nice weather condition (sunny, not too hot, no rain). A lot of people here, about 20. Not only FreeBSD committers...
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Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant
Since I participate in the FreeBSD project there are from time to time some voices which say FreeBSD is dead, Linux is the way to go. Most of the time those voices are trolls, or people which do not...
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