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FreeBSD

Beastie and *nix

August 28, 2021 by Aaron Graves
Screenshot from XFCE on OpenBSD 6.9

Fair warning, this post may get a bit long, maybe skip to the TL;DR A brief history It was the late 90’s, early 2000’s that I first got a taste for *nix. At that time it came in the form of two distributions of Linux. One of them was a version of Mandrake titled “Linux4Win” …

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Categories Projects Tags BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, technology Leave a comment

A FreeBSD sysadmin’s adventure with Debian

May 9, 2012 by Aaron Graves

It’s been an interesting week-plus. I’m very much a FreeBSD guy. I know it. Like the back of my hand. I can control it. I can make it purr like a kitten (or a Ferrari). Debian, I’m familiar with. But of all the Linux out there, I’m the most comfortable with it. So I’m using …

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