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In this post Stephan teaches you why he moves many of his servers from Linux to freeBSD.
Here is some background History of Mine:
Because I have been using Linux ever since the pre-alpha days, I know many things about the operating system that most other users do not. There was no other way to install the operating system in the beginning, than to compile the kernel on another operating system, to hex edit a boot sector, then boot to see if your kernel would actually properly spawn on your machine. In the beginning the hex editing was done on the floppy disk you could not boot from the hard drive.
From that point, you had to go back to the foreign operating system, compile the rest that you needed for minimum functionality, then put them in a convoluted manner on the file system which was then Minix.
It was normal in that period where you first installed Linux to do not just everything yourself, but to know what to do otherwise you would never get the functioning operating system.
In the end you would also compile GCC in that foreign operating system, because there was no way for you to do it in Linux with a compiler you did not have yet {chicken egg dilemma}
Only after GCC was compiled, were you able to do Native compiling in Linux on the Minix file system.
It is exactly this manner of thinking, that is still bothering Linux distributions today. Somewhere there are people who still think, that there are many users who want to Tinker with the operating system, when they just want to go from one major version to the next.
This manner of thinking breaks things when you need to upgrade from minor to Major version.
One thing that has always bothered me, is that a simple major update from the operating system from one person to the next can **still*" literally break things in unexpected ways, because of the way that Upstream handles certain commands.
For no good reasons commands like ifconfig where depreciated, the other example's also like arp.
Ifconfig has been in Unix Forever.
Ifconfig is in muscle memory of hundreds of thousands of system operators. Ifconfig is a specialized command which does only one thing and it does it in a perfect manner and it has been doing it ever since UNIX existed.
It's still baffles me that I need to separately install the ifcommands, before I can work on a Linux system today, and that's with any any distribution
This is just one of the examples of why it is wrong to change commands on the fly, depreciating another set of commands, without giving the people the choice, at the beginning, to include it with the installation of the distribution
The IP Command is a good one, nice modern with colour output, ifconfig is still a very good command, nice, **stable** decades old, leave it be!
These are the major things, that often bring system operators to seek operating systems, where stability is first, where updates from minor to minor version go smoothly, and updates from minor to Major versions usually also go smoothly and where don't disappear 
or are depreciated for trivial reasons.
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#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #RetroComputing #UNIX #History
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/01/24/why-were-migrating-many-of-our-servers-from-linux-to-freebsd/
Doing a bit of Light reading over here
Subject Unix
#sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #programming #RetroComputing #Unix #POSIX #Book
Have you ever asked yourself how the BSD Café Mastodon instance was built?
Stefano has written here what he has done. You should have at least rudimentary knowledge of what a jail is in order to follow everything and at least a simple manner.
In short a jail is much more efficient than a VM, uses much less resources and it's easier to control
If you take the time to Study all the subjects, you will be a will to build a freeBSD instance of Mastodon yourself; all the information necessary Is provided Here and Deep to very Deep details you can dig up yourself
https://wiki.bsd.cafe/bsdcafe-technical-details
#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #programming #JavaScript #Mastodon #freeBSD #ngix #json #POSIX #SocialMedia #webfinger
I have had an account on an instance where the System Operator had to shut down because the operational costs were too high to sustain the node. All proper precautions were made and the operator gave us more than six weeks to get all of our followers moved somewhere else. He also made sure that everybody got the message by sending it multiple times also through email. I've made an account there because that place was bot Friendly {https://botsin.space/} and I was going to Create a bot on that instance
However, since I put so few toots out there, on that account I didn't even bother to download them. And since I'm quite aware of high internet costs, I also make sure that I have accounts on different places because in the end somebody is paying for it either in cash or paying for it by using Surplus bandwidth and surplus disc area space.
We as Fediverse Community users should realise that nothing is free apart from Air and Water; everything else cost either Time, Space_Time or Energy, often a combination of the latter two.
I've just checked and https://botsin.space/ still seems to be up as a read-only instance.
#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #programming #JavaScript #Mastodon #freeBSD #ngix #json #POSIX #SocialMedia #webfinger
Continued thread
Make sure that you always think about the data that you divulge to big companies. Use the Easy Storage knowing that they will use your data also even your copyrighted photographs.
Within the Fediverse it's easy to own your data, very easy, always remember that and be thankful
#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #programming #JavaScript #Mastodon #freeBSD #ngix #json #POSIX #SocialMedia #webfinger
In this article Stefano explains to you how to use a web finger system so that people can always find your address
An important message here is that _you should always own your data_. So do not rely on cloud or web services to maintain your data. Always remember that many of those massive conglomerates use your data and sell it, literally sell it, or the metadata off it, to the highest bidder
Within the Fediverse it's easy to migrate from one server to the next, your followers will automatically follow your new account
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/08/using-a-permanent-webfinger-address/
#bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #programming #JavaScript #Mastodon #freeBSD #ngix #json #POSIX #SocialMedia #webfinger
#Facebook-muistoja taas viiden vuoden takaa (tänä vuonna sain #TSH:n loppuun vähän yli viikkoa varhemmin):
”Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth.” Mistä tulee mieleen, että se on vielä kokeilemati, että lukisin viimeisen luvun merenrannalla.
Pää-#Nazgûl, #Angmar'in kuningas, särki juuri #MinasTirith'in portin, mutta sitten kiekui kukko ja #Rohan oli saapunut. Hyvää yötä. #Tolkien #TSH #LotR #NytRytisee
Ainoa kohta, jossa #PeterJackson'in #travestia'n voi väittää kohentaneen #TSH:n juonta #Tolkien'in tekstistä on se, kuinka nopeasti #Gandalf hoksaa #Bilbo'n sormuksen #Sauron'in mahtisormukseksi. Sormus on Bilbolla 61 vuotta ennen kuin Gandalf alkaa tutkia asiaa. Sen jälkeen hän kuluttaa siihen *seitsemäntoista vuotta*, elokuvassa piipahtaa Gondorissa ja palaa heti takaisin. Hukkateillä olevia mahtisormuksia on vain kahdeksan. #LotR
Olikohan se suomalaisista #SF/#spefi-kirjoittajista #VeikkoRekunen, joka joskus esitti, että #TSH:n paras yksittäinen luku on ”The Ride of the Rohirrim”; joka tapauksessa itse väittäisin vahvaksi kilpailijaksi lukua ”The Stairs of Cirith Ungol”, missä Sam ja Frodo käyvät keskustelunsa tarinan luonteesta ja Klonkku viimeisen kerran käy katumuksen partaalla. #Tolkien #LotR
Suomessa on niin läpip*ska #sinimustahallitus , että minä lähden taas #Fangorn'iin seurustelemaan #entti'en kaa. Soromnoo. #LotR #TSH #Tolkien #kotijuttuja #politiikka #ahistaa