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...
by Alexander Sharp | Jul 9, 2022
Several years ago I began using elementary OS as my primary desktop operating system. I thought it was exciting—a Linux for the everyman, a Linux desktop environment that copied Apple rather than Microsoft, a Linux distro that didn’t package a bunch of software...
by Alexander Sharp | Jul 9, 2022
In a previous post I explained how to set up an NFS server on a Raspberry Pi. Here I provide info on how to set up an NFS client on common devices. I can’t cover all devices, but fortunately if it’s *nix the FreeBSD/Linux examples should work fine for most...
by Alexander Sharp | Jun 30, 2022
I originally purchased my Raspberry Pi to run Pi-Hole, which functions as a whole-house ad-blocker. Technically, Pi-Hole is just a script that installs and configures dnsmasq and loads a bunch of domains to block at the DNS level. When a website tries to load...
