These are my notes, tips and howtos about installing and maintaining FreeBSD and third party applications for FreeBSD. If you have feedback, feel free to contact me.
The different shells, also known as command interpreters, are utilities, that reads commands from the terminal or from a file and presents them for the operating system to execute. Shells can have features, such as command line editor, word completion, word listing, spelling correction, history mechanism and job control.
Continue reading “The different shells in FreeBSD”The default audio device in FreeBSD can be set with the utility sysctl on the command line. This means default microphone input and default sound output. Note, that setting the default audio device in FreeBSD is different from setting the Output Device in Sound in GNOME, which only affects a few applications, such as Firefox.
Continue reading “Setting default audio device in FreeBSD”Sometimes, even though you have closed all applications, you can experience, that FreeBSD and other operating systems can not unmount an external USB disk drive or other mounted device, because of the error message Device busy.
Continue reading “Unmounting a busy device on FreeBSD”Review of Havit KB496L RGB backlit mechanical keyboard for FreeBSD desktop computers and Android smartphones.
Continue reading “Havit KB496L mechanical keyboard for FreeBSD.”In this example, a FreeBSD bootable USB memory stick will be prepared, so it can be used to boot a computer and install FreeBSD on it.
Continue reading “Preparing a FreeBSD bootable USB memory stick.”FreeDOS is a free and open source operating system variant of the classic MSDOS from the 90’s, just like DRDOS and PCDOS from the time. FreeDOS can be used to run legacy business software and classic games for MSDOS. In this example, FreeDOS 1.3 is installed as a guest in VirtualBox 6.1 on a FreeBSD 13.2 desktop computer.
Continue reading “How to install FreeDOS on FreeBSD.”In this example, the VirtualBox kernel module 6.1.36_1 for VirtualBox 6.1.36_1 on FreeBSD 13.2 is installed from ports to a fix version mismatch.
Continue reading “How to fix version mismatch for FreeBSD VirtualBox kernel module.”This is the procedure, with examples in FreeBSD, for how to create a virtual host in Apache HTTP server, including, how to create a seperate system user account, create the document root directory, setting permissions and constructing the virtual host configuration in Apache.
Continue reading “Create a virtual host in Apache HTTP server.”This is the procedure for how to install WordPress from the command line on a FreeBSD or similar UNIX- or Linux based web server.
Continue reading “How to install WordPress from the command line on FreeBSD.”Open dconf-editor and go to org, gnome, control-center and last-panel. Set the value to default. This worked for me. Thanks to bpurgar for the solution in FreeBSD Bugs. See more at Bug 259007.
