Certainly managing a Unix-like server includes SSH and less often local console the screen resolution on the local console isn’t much of a matter, though having a little bit more than the standard can be nice when browsing through large files or grepping through logfiles. Thankfully as I learned, on the current (yet upcoming) FreeBSD 10 … more
I’ve have been doing some progress on my journey with bare FreeBSD, the BSDNow.tv tutorials are good and provide reasonable defaults to get started quickly. I quicklygot both a poudriere package builder inside a VM of my workstation and ezjail up and running on a small homeserver with an Atom CPU (that is quite not that … more
As per FreeBSD 8.4 9.2 and 10.0 (BETA as of writing) pkg will start replacing the old pkg_* tools, but the installed pkg command is only a bootstrapping command that downloads a current version of pkg and install it. I like pkg, and coming from Debian apt-get and Redhat yum, the old pkg_* tools looked … more