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Stefano Marinelli

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

Föderation EN Mo 12.02.2024 11:57:20

Stefano Marinelli

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

Föderation EN Fr 09.02.2024 19:29:28

In 2007, I used to invite friends over to my place. Often, I would hear them burst into laughter when using the toilet.
This is a photo of my flush from 2007.

A close-up view of a shiny, metallic toilet flush button on a white surface, with a small rectangular sticker above it displaying the colorful Windows XP logo and the text "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP."

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Stefano Marinelli

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

Föderation EN Mi 31.01.2024 19:31:44

It's been an incredibly intense week, and it's only Wednesday. This morning, I had to drive 200 km through icy fog and heavy traffic. However, this afternoon was dedicated to setting up a FreeBSD server.

The client wanted to retain some of the features from their old Linux system. I came up with the idea of directly passing the two physical disks to bhyve and booting them. The boot was immediate, and there were no issues. The new FreeBSD server was up and running, and the 'old' Linux was now operating as a VM, working perfectly on the physical disks.

The client was pleased with the outcome and asked me to set up a native FreeBSD desktop, encrypted because they will store important data. I hadn't installed a FreeBSD desktop recently, but it turned out to be easier than expected (no wifi involved).

I installed xorg, the Nvidia drivers, nvidia-xconfig (which generated the configuration file perfectly), kde5, sddm, Firefox, LibreOffice, the Nextcloud client, and made a few small adjustments to get the keyboard audio buttons working. Even suspend/resume functionality worked flawlessly, which amazed the client.

I then created a jail on the server and set up zfs-autobackup to back up the client's PC on the server (of course, on an encrypted dataset). Time to go home, satisfied with the outcome.

Stefano Marinelli

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

Föderation EN Do 18.01.2024 15:11:09