In this three part tutorial I am going to show you how you can setup FreeBSD with a riced Xfce or i3 desktop. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-freebsd-with-a-riced-desktop-part-1-basic-setup.html
I am currently in the process of migrating some ZFS storage servers from GNU/Linux Debian to FreeBSD and decided to do some simple performance tests. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/samba-and-nfs-performance-zfs-on-linux-vs-zfs-on-freebsd.html
In this part we're going to install i3 and rice it bit. You can look further down in the tutorial at the screenshots in order to determine if you like the results. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-freebsd-with-a-riced-desktop-part-3-i3.html
One of the questions I frequently run into is how to choose between OpenBSD and FreeBSD. In this small article I'll try to answer that question. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/choosing-between-openbsd-and-freebsd.html
Since the release of systemd in 2010 the project has been getting a continuous and steady stream of new features and added capabilities. With a code count of more than 1.3 million lines of code, where Lennart Poettering has just added yet another 20.000 new lines of code with the merge of his personal systemd-homed git tree into systemd, and with a continuous open issue counter at about 1.400 issues, where new issues and bugs keep popping up, systemd should be considered experimental and not saf
In my previous article titled "Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD" I stated that "BSD is the place to be". But this doesn't mean that there isn't any good Linux distributions left. There do exist some really good Linux distributions out there where the developers and maintainers have removed all systemd dependencies, and where people are also aware of the status of the kernel development, and Red Hats major corporate influence. Let's take a look at some of these great Linux dist
ZFS on Linux might get a lot of the latest features, and with a distribution like Arch Linux you have the bleeding edge, but it makes great sense to migrate everything ZFS related to FreeBSD. On FreeBSD ZFS is a first class citizen. This means that you don't have to worry about hostile kernel commits that suddenly breaks ZFS, or kernel modules that has to be re-compiled every time the kernel is updated. Being a first class citizen also means that the entire operating system is tailored to work r
In this tutorial I'll show you a simple way you can manage the configuration of i3 across multiple computers with different setups on each computer. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/how-you-can-manage-the-i3-window-manager-on-multiple-computers.html
The suckless philosophy is all about keeping things simple, minimal and usable, but some people seem to have misunderstood it completely. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/turning-suckless-into-suckmore.html
