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FreeBSD Perils

As stated in my last post, my server died several months ago, and I decided to take that unfortunate opportunity to gain some Unix experience by installing FreeBSD on its replacement. Although this server has been installed for several months, the main reason that this weblog has been down is because of multiple configuration issues with FreeBSD that, frankly, I think should have worked Out Of The Box.

A friend of mine who is adamant about FreeBSD told me to name this inevitable post "FreeBSD from a gentoo user's perspective." It's true that my desktop's distro of choice has been gentoo for several years, but I'm no ricer. I love gentoo because I love portage--the gentoo package manager which is, in fact, a derivative of FreeBSD's ports package manager. I don't care much for any package manager that doesn't give you the option to change compile-time options. Anyway, I'm going to try my best to leave any bias-ness I may have behind me as I work through the multitude of flaws that I encountered with setting up a FreeBSD webserver.

As a gentoo user, I can understand the expected perils of using a system that is designed to have both
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New Look!

Well, my old server died (I think the processor fried itself somehow). Due to school workload, I wasn't able to properly configure a new server until now, thereby this blog has been down for months (and, surprisingly, I've actually had people comment about it being down--mostly because they were unable to flame me, though *shrug*).

Anyway, I've finally got a new (actually, it's quite old) rack-mountable server (minus the rack) running FreeBSD as a replacement. Moreover, I've changed the theme, so this site had both a different software and hardware look!

Michael Altfield

Hi, I’m Michael Altfield. I write articles about opsec, privacy, and devops ➡

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