http://lioks.buffout.org FreeBSD tutorials & tips for beginners Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:58:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Although I mostly use FreeBSD to perform many tasks, it can also be useful to have access to Windows binaries. Multiple choices are available: emulation, dual booting and virtualization. I personally dislike wine since it is not capable to run every binaries and even the ones he can emulate sometimes ... http://lioks.buffout.org/?p=71 I often hear from people who don't use FreeBSD that it's an operating system only dedicated to server/production purposes. In a way, yes, FreeBSD is not as user-friendly than popular Linux distributions and it's sometimes hard to get what you want working the way you want but I don't think that ... http://lioks.buffout.org/?p=39 Mounting usb devices is a common task and many system take care of it without user's intervention. Under FreeBSD you can use hald (Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon) which use D-Bus objects for each device and mount your usb devices automatically, but you can also do it directly with the mount command. Connect ... http://lioks.buffout.org/?p=24 sshd is the Secure Shell Daemon and allows an user to gain a remote shell on a foreign machine. Unlike telnet, it allows one to exchange data on a secure way over the internet/a private network. Although it's often configured for simple password authentication, it can also be set up for a ... http://lioks.buffout.org/?p=18 This may be obvious for most Un*x users but this is a question I'm asked so frequently... If you don't have Xorg already installed, it may be a good idea to start by installing it: # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make config-recursive install clean The FreeBSD ports system will take care of building and ... http://lioks.buffout.org/?p=14 Ok, there we are, my first post in this blog, humm I suppose I should explain a bit the why and the how of this... My name is Marc Lebrun and I live in France (mostly in Nantes). After some different (and not really satisfying) jobs/studies, I have decided to go back to ... http://lioks.buffout.org/?p=9