by Alexander Sharp | Oct 17, 2022
Today I had to install a Cloudflare Origin Server Certificate on my FreeBSD server. If you happened to come to the site in the last 24 hours and you noticed that it was down because of certificate issue, I apologize. I forgot to set a cronjob to renew my Let’s...
by Alexander Sharp | Aug 28, 2022
Before you install zsh + ohmyzsh on FreeBSD you need to install FreeBSD. I have a guide for installing it on a Raspberry Pi and one for installing it on a desktop. There are a lot of great things about FreeBSD but the default Bourne shell feels a bit dated. A couple...
by Alexander Sharp | Aug 24, 2022
I have decided to take the plunge and install FreeBSD as a desktop operating system. The machine is a 2012 HP Compaq with an i7 and an ATi FirePro 3900 (Turks) graphics card. The details don’t matter too much beyond what’s detailed in the title. If you...
by Alexander Sharp | Jul 28, 2022
In this series, I’ll use an exploration of Bastille to explain some basic functionality of FreeBSD. This article starts with perhaps the most structurally fundamental part of FreeBSD, the /usr/local/ directory. Unlike most of my FreeBSD/Raspberry Pi articles,...
by Alexander Sharp | Jul 15, 2022
If you are familiar with SSH on macOS or Linux, you’re in luck. SSH on FreeBSD works pretty much just as it does those systems (and you can use these steps to set it up on those systems). What is SSH? SSH stands for “secure shell.” Using SSH on...