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Gemlog
The gemlogging year started very late for me in 2022. After a very successful 2021 I took a long break to work on coordinating the Advance!BSD project and drive that forward. Therefore I only wrote 5 articles in total and nearly missed the first half of the year entirely. What I got done are all articles that I'm proud of, though: An article about revisiting the original FreeBSD 1.0 (from 1993!) in two parts; the summary of my thoughts about EuroBSDCan in Vienna after attending; and finally the first two articles in a (surely longer) series on the CBSD tool for virtualization management. So 2022 was different but fine overall.
(June 2022) Legends start at 1.0! – FreeBSD in 1993 (pt. 1)
This is the first part of a short series of articles on exploring the historical FreeBSD version 1.0. It provides a short general introduction and then covers the preparation work as well as the first part of the installation on actual hardware.
(June 2022) Legends start at 1.0! – FreeBSD in 1993 (pt. 2)
The second part finishes the installation and then explores various areas of the system like _keymaps_, _building from source_, _custom kernels_, _ports_, _packages_ and so on.
(September 2022) EuroBSDCon 2022, my first BSD conference (and how they are different)
My report of what EuroBSDCon in Vienna as first-timer to any BSD conference. The goal is to give people interested in such conferences a good idea of what it has been like. At about 4,500 words I'd say that it does contain quite some detail.
This is an introductionary post about virtualization, emulation and containers meant to be as simple to understand as possible.
This post presents an introduction to what CBSD actually is and covers both the installation and the tool's filesystem hierarchy.