Fabio Temporiti·22h agoGhostBSD: FreeBSD as a daily desktop on an old DellI wrote this in Italian on temporiti.xyz. AI translated it into English, I reviewed it.
InLevel Up CodingbyDrPsychick·1d agoMy Journey back to FreeBSD (2/n)Booting and installing FreeBSD over the network (TFTP)A response icon1A response icon1
Umair·Oct 30Why you should never redirect command output to the file you are reading in BashSuppose you want to replace every occurrence of foo with baz in a text file. It looks like a straightforward job with sed, and there is a…
Jayakumar Thanakodi·Oct 29What It Took to Bring io_uring to FreeBSDCopying an interface is the easy part. Making it behave is where the work is.
InLevel Up CodingbyDrPsychick·Oct 26My Journey back to FreeBSD (1/n)Triggered by a friend, going all-in after EuroBSDCon
Umair·Oct 8Permanently Modify the MAC Address by Rewriting the EEPROMThe problem started when I set up a server and found it was experiencing inexplicable packet loss of 50%. At the same time, another machine…A response icon2A response icon2
Umair·Oct 3I Run My Own DNS Resolver. Then I Started Hosting the Root Zone TooRunning your own DNS resolver on a LAN gives you considerably more control over how name resolution works. Instead of sending every…
Umair·Sep 13How Do You Show Asterisks for a Bash Password Prompt?Someone asked how to use a Bash script to prompt for a password while displaying an asterisk for every character entered. Bash can already…A response icon1A response icon1
Umair·Sep 11Bash Has an IFS. But Where Is OFS?Bash has a variable called IFS, the Internal Field Separator, which controls how the shell separates words during operations such as word…
