The most powerfull Intelligence Assistant is your brain. When you forget what a command does, or don;t know which one to use you can enter the world of

`man man`

I had forgotten how I could use wc so I only typed man wc in a shell and started to read.

I use wc in my website building workflow for which I use hugo

Wordcount is a gorgeously simple comand

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #fish #Linux #POSIX #Programming #man

p156

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #9front #linux #comic #ksh

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Puffy is going on a trip, leaving behind Girl and Penguin. He addresses them as he's getting dressed. Puffy: "I'll be back in a few days. You know what to do?" Girl, holding The NEW Kornshell book: "Page 156!" Puffy, to Penguin: "And you?" Penguin, annoyed: "Nobody touches your nethack save..." Puffy leaves. Girl to Penguin: "Get the 9front iso." Penguin gulps. ... Puffy traverses the desert at night, reaching a memorial stone. It reads: "In honor of the fish who gave their lives for freedom" Dozens of fish emblems follow.

Just dropped oksh-7.7, get it from the usual place: https://github.com/ibara/oksh

#unix #linux #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #shell #ksh #kornshell #opensource #freesoftware

Studying an interesting subject after running into a set of nice Bhajan musical pieces many thirty minutes long played in acoustically fantastic sounding mandirs

#Hinduism #Bhajan #Mandir #Sikhism #Jainism #Buddhism #Islam #Judaism
#Links #Terminal #bash #csh #ksh #zsh #tksh Browser #OpenSource #No #JavaScript #NoJavaScript

@maulanahirzan @gyptazy

In My country the support is there
But the price that you have to pay for IPv6 is ridiculously high so I tunnel out from IPv4 and I use a IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel service. Try using one of those

.🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX

Don't tell me you still don't have a boxyBSD VM. Request one while they last

Here's the status of the hypervisors running boxyBSD VMs

@gyptazy

https://boxybsd.com/status/

.🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX

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The screencap shows a terminal screen with a black background and white text. At the top, there is a status bar displaying the time (22:12), battery level (81%), and temperature (27°). The terminal window is titled "BoxyBSD" in a stylized font. The command line shows the user "guest" logged in to the system "mgmt-boxybsd" with the command "cat status.md" being executed. The terminal output includes a "Status" section listing hypervisors with their locations and latency times, such as "virt01: 42.1 ms (Location: France, Ro)" and "virt09: 277. ms (Location: Japan, Toky)." Below this, there is a "[looking glass]" section with miscellaneous information like "Website: Online," "Matrix Bot: Online," "Provisioning: Enabled," and "gyptazy services: Online." The "Statistics" section shows "Boxes provisioned: 500+," "OS Images: 7," and "Uptime: 99.9%." At the bottom, there is a note about contacting support and the system's creation date (2025-04-12 11:59:34.695945). Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.310 Wh

Linus Torvalds has proper motivated reasons for really disliking file systems without a case sensitivity.

Read this with me from the kernel lkml, regarding bcachefs.

Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.15-rc4 - Linus Torvalds
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjajMJyoTv2KZdpVRoPn0LFZ94Loci37WLVXmMxDbLOjg@mail.gmail.com/

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tcsh #fish #git #Linux #lkml #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #coding #1024DaysOfCode #github #programming #Torvalds #filesystem

@rl_dane @amin @sotolf

Thank you for this wonderful tip

So it's

:match Conceal /^.*$/
:set conceallevel=3

:highlight Conceal NONE

When you finish, just do

:match

#vim #VimMasterRace #BramMolenaar #Amiga #C64 #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD  #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #RetroComputing #UNIX #History

@mff @nixCraft

@mff @nixCraft

'vim'

without any file name is all you need to type in your Bash to see the welcome screen of vim.
Bram Molenaar who created vim on the Commodore Amiga, even tells how you can support Children in Uganda, if you bother to read the help file in its initial headers. The information was updated, for as far as I know, until his departure of life.

I'm currently on mobile otherwise I would have put up in a screenshot

#vim #VimMasterRace #BramMolenaar #Amiga #C64 #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tsh #freeBSD  #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #POSIX #Programming #Patch #RetroComputing #UNIX #History

nostalgie

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #fish #daemon #ksh

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Fish and Daemon with a halo touch a computer skull.

I still need some more feel at home config help. As you can see here I love having vertical gradients on my displays, but in KDE and Vallpaper I have not found how I can set gradients on the side of my wallpaper which are deliberately not 16:9 since I love to look at (vertical) gradients. Where do I need to look to achieve that? Is there a KDE action that I need to define for all my 20 KDE desktops?

.🖋️ #xFace #KDE #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #gPartEd #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #hugo #gvfs #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw

I've encountered an annoying problem

A critical shared Library that's used by FFMpeg and of course also used by MPlayer was not in the installation. It was an odd because even a remove reinstall of FFMpeg didn't fix the problem.

Since I'm in no mood to install a development environment from the command line to compile FFMpeg from scratch I just wiped the KDE distro and started all over.

While I was busy with the new installation so I was on the live ISO FFMPEG worked just fine and the library was there working perfectly.

You can already guess what happened when I booted into the new installation.

FFMPEG was installed by default by the distribution, since VLC is installed by default, but the shared library was missing!

¡WTF!

Then I encountered even more bugs, privilege escalation errors!

These bugs and errors have nothing to do with KDE!

They have to do with problems with the distribution from the perspective of my maintainer. It is my task to see if I can reproduce the problems after I fix them by hand if that does not take too much time and effort.

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #KDE  #Gnome #Linux #POSIX  #fresh #programming  #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw

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The photograph captured in total darkness shows a multi-monitor setup with two screens. The top screen displays a blue background with a landscape image of a sky with clouds and a body of water, along with a window showing a list of items. The middle screen shows a blue background with a text-based interface, possibly a command prompt or terminal, with white text on a black background. The bottom screen features a dark background with abstract light streaks in purple and white, and a blue bar at the bottom. The screens are arranged in a staggered formation, with the top screen tilted to the right, the middle screen tilted to the left, and the bottom screen positioned horizontally. The overall color scheme is dominated by blues and purples, with white text and light streaks providing contrast.

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The photograph captured in pitch black and absolute darkness shows a computer screen with a dark blue background featuring a large, stylized white arrow forming a loop. In the center, there is a white window with black icons and text The window is labeled "10x:26:16 Libretto." The screen also displays a taskbar with icons for "FAQ," "Inbox," and "My List," along with a clock The bottom left corner of the screen features a small logo with the text "Libretto." The overall design is sleek and modern, with a focus on functionality. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.769 Wh

When was the last time you paid close attention to warnings in a partition Management program? You don't remember? I'm going to tell you a beautiful story.

Jerry has his data on an SSD. Being the power user he is, Jerry totally disregarded the fact that he had to make a backup of his data. Jerry wanted to use a partition management program like the one I have included in the photograph I've just made.

He took a few precautions, made sure that he wasn't any browser, made sure that he wasn't on the internet, hell he even plugged out his internet router.

One thing Jerry did not anticipate was a catastrophic failure of a piece of critical hardware in his beautiful computer.
His gorgeous AMD processor had damage, heat damage

*TSC = unstable*

His GPU integrated in his CPU also had heat damage. When he makes certain simple moves, like moving a window, the GPU goes haywire, sends bad data to the CPU with the unstable TSC and everything cascades down, resulting in a beautiful green screen which Jerry had seen hundreds to thousands of times. These screens usually occurred only when Jerry had opened a browser. Jerry figured he was safe since he had not opened a browser since this session of the Operating System had started

**Wrong**

In the middle of operation that I have just described in the photograph, in fact at the beginning, within just the second minute of the operation that needs two to three hours, the machine did not crash to green screen, it terminated his Xsession effectively destroying his partition editor.

Jerry was flabbergasted, something he had not anticipated occurred.

All his data was lost

Since he was not running ZFS, there was no way that he could restore or roll back a snapshot

^Z

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The photograph portrays a computer display showing a partition management interface. The background is dark purple, and the text is white, making it stand out clearly. The interface is divided into several sections, with the main area on the left listing completed operations, such as copying and optimal block size adjustments, with details like the amount of data copied and the block size used. The right side of the screen provides additional information, including the total amount of data copied (6.46 GB of 179.92 GB) and the remaining time (02:21:41). There is a progress bar indicating the completion of 0 out of 3 operations. The interface also includes navigation options like "Cancel" and a vertical menu with options such as "File," "Edit," "Adjustments," "View," "Pals," "Tools," and "Sync." The overall layout is structured and organized, with clear labels and a consistent color scheme. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.234 Wh

Im starting to achieve platform distro OS translucency regarding more and more projects. Now I can smoothly work in my hugo projects from any distro I want in Linux. All I need to do is keep the copies I work on in sync.
Since I dont run zfs jet on a centralized HDD / SSD I simply use mc -a to do the job manually.
Normally it should be trivial, but the hugo projects want rm -Rf dir otherwise old files with similar size can be changed, thus screwing up continuity

Since my KDE MX install is moothing out in cfg features I need, which is a combo of XFce components and KDE, I can smoothly switch to the KDE distro and work further while I tune it.

I chose to keep XFce seperate from KDE distro wise due to size constraints I;ve put on my boot partition

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #gPartEd #xFace #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw

Linus Torvalds has coded git two decades ago.

Learn about why how who and where here

https://youtu.be/sCr_gb8rdEI?si=s8tDVh1e8dBTGWkJ

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tcsh #fish #git #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #coding #1024DaysOfCode #github #programming

@gyptazy

How can I apply for one for my boxyBSD VM? do I have to contact you on Matrix?

🖋️ #tunnel #IPv6 #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #freeBSD #boxyBSD #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming

@gyptazy @BoxyBSD

As you know Tunnel Brokers does not work for me due to my current network setup without a static pingable IP

I am keenly interested

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #freeBSD #boxyBSD #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming

@jimbolaya

I've installed the statically linked version. Now I rock the latest version of ffmpeg

#AskFediverse #ffmpeg #programming #Linux #KDE #MXLinux #iso #bash #tcsh #ksh #zsh #sh

This error in MX Linux KDE edition is now annoying

I cant work withou ffmpeg and Im NOT going to install a programming ENV: just to build one programma

>>
$ sudo apt install ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
ffmpeg-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ffmpeg
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,816 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,437 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 ffmpeg amd64 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1 [1,816 kB]
Fetched 1,816 kB in 2s (992 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package ffmpeg.
(Reading database ... 342056 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ffmpeg_7%3a5.1.6-0+deb12u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ffmpeg (7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1) ...
Setting up ffmpeg (7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
metalloid@bugrupola:~
$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

<<

Who knows a fix apart from compilation?

#AskFediverse #ffmpeg #programming #Linux #KDE #MXLinux #iso #bash #tcsh #ksh #zsh #sh

Look at the year 2K17 yet I still used DVD storage to boot ghostBSD!

.🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #ghostBSD #BSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #tcsh  #distro #KDE  #DVD #RetroComputing #retro #storage #POSIX  #fresh #programming

The next step was to config KDE connect in this KDE. Luckily I know that I need gufw to migrate my profile, from the xFce MX linux to this KDE MX linux.
It was a matter of installing gufw, which is not default in KDE distro, since it has its own nice interface. For me sticking with what I know is the easiest since I want to drive KDE on desktop again after so many decades, even though XFce is still going to be used most, due to shortcut muscle memory

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper

You can use these tips to do it with activities, because those are good to learn too in KDE

I have 16 desktops on multiple IPS LED panels so for me that's not an option

https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-get-kde-5-plasma-to-have-separate-wallpapers-and-separate-widgets/3770

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper

Vallpaper can be found here https://store.kde.org/p/1197828

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper

My next step was something unexpected.

In XFce4 my desktops all have different backgrounds per IPS Led Panel. Its a matter if context menu key (on my keyboard I have one) select background and move the program to the next display beside it and repeat, then move it to the next desktop, display besides AD Infinitum

KDE says HELL NO to that ease.
I did some reasearch and saw that it was easy peasy in KDE 4.5.x then got replaced with activities in KDE Plasma 5.x
The simple command is now a lot of keystrokes and annoying. Instead of getting pissed I went further and found that what the programmers replaced with activities (which are POWERFULL and versatile) and also usuable for wallpapers per VTop (Virtual desktop) was eased back (in 2022) with VallPaper

Source is here

https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-12-03-implementing-different-wallpapers-on-kde-virtual-desktops

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #backgrounds #wallpaper

I've probably tooted about this before, but I don't know why this isn't standard.

It's just so obvious, at least to me. ;)

~ $ type mcd
mcd is a function
mcd () 
{ 
    [[ -n $1 ]] && mkdir "$1" && cd "$1"
}

#shell #UnixShell #ShellScripting #sh #bash #ksh #mksh

@dirkdierickx
Thank you. I found all the actions needed in kwin and I've defined the keyboard shortcuts for them

🌺💜🎼 🎶 🎸 #Lobi ✨ 💖💕🌹💐💖 💙💜💖🦋

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #KDE  #Gnome #Linux #POSIX  #fresh #programming

@nixCraft

One of the hashtags _guru

#bash #csh #ksh #sh #parameters   #Linux #XEN #VM #Boot #Proxmox #programming  #POSIX

What I still need to do is find out again where I can configure custom shortcuts to quickly switch between desktops using the keyboard

@dirkdierickx

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #KDE  #Gnome #Linux #POSIX  #fresh #programming

@dirkdierickx
What is the name of it?
Thank you for enlightening me

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #Linux #POSIX  #fresh #programming #KDE

There's one thing I had not done in a long time which is install a distribution of my choice with a full KDE desktop manager. I haven't done that in more than 2 decades. KDE has been wonderful at it's infancy and KDE is still wonderful now.

Since MX Linux is my distribution of choice, it's logical that I installed the KDE version of that distribution even if it's just for a test drive.

I've allocated just 20 gigs for KDE which means it's tight with space but it's still usable for a test run.

One tool I immediately missed was gparted the powerful gnome UI, which puts the precision of partition manipulation at your fingertips, without the chances of making costly mistakes if you don't pay enough attention or are not affluent enough with the commands in your favorite shell.

I missed that tool during the installation of mxKDE because I needed to add partitions before the installation could proceed I just left Blank Space on an SSD.

Apart from that I can tell you from the initial view that KDE has not just matured, advanced and elevated itself. KDE has become so lightweight in resource usage that it can complete with very Light Desktop managers.

You can still edit your widgets up to & icons almost the pixel. The things that I love about KDE from decades ago are still there and are even more powerful.

Since I started to use KDE when GPU usage on the desktop was not even a thing, you can imagine how fast the DE is now and a period where GPU usage is normal for everything.

Out of the box KDE is already fantastic. Go and see what KDE can be for you, by installing it yourself

@kde

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The photograph shot & composed in total darkness shows two screens displaying a user interface, likely from the KDE Desktop. The top screen has a blue background with white text, indicating a welcome message and system information, including the date "April 22, 2023." The bottom screen shows a music player interface on the second IPS LED panel with a track titled "The Division" by Pink Floyd, labeled as "Progressive Rock," with a progress bar indicating the song is at 00:44 out of 01:01. The word "Music" is visible on the right side of the bottom screen. The screens are angled and partially overlapped, with the top screen tilted to the right and the bottom screen tilted to the left. The background is dark, emphasizing the blue glow of the screens.

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The photograph is of an IPS LED panel showing off the KDE desktop manager in gorgeous Glory with a dark blue background featuring a large, stylized white arrow forming a loop. In the center, there is a white window with black icons and text, including a list of keyboard shortcuts such as "W" for "Windows," "E" for "Explorer," and "R" for "Run." The window is labeled "10x:26:16 Libretto." The screen also displays a taskbar with icons for "FAQ," "Inbox," and "My List," along with a clock showing "10:32" and the date "Thursday, April 11." The bottom left corner of the screen features a small logo with the text "Libretto." The overall design is sleek and modern, with a focus on functionality. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.748 Wh

When you want to run a middleweight Linux distribution and you already love & know Debian but don't want to run on super stable Server level since you are running a workstation *not* a server MX Linux is a very good choice as a distribution for you

You've got the power of Debian you'll get the stability of Debian yet you are bleeding edge and don't have applications which are rock stable but for a workstation a tad old
If you don't have a recent MX Linux installation you can download the new ISO version 23.6

If you have v23.5 there's no need to execute a fresh installation. The updated executables will roll out to you automatically.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming

This is how my terminals look like when I compile a kernel. I love the wonderful colours that I generate

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #kernel #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming #lolcat

After having read what horrors people experience when they upgrade their Hugo binaries, I made sure that I've kept the version that I used to make my test site and also consequently use *that* version to continue to teach myself a high level of fluency in the markdown language

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Hugo #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming

$ alias 'rm = rm -i'

This is a standard alias in all my POSIX installations
I use it to curb accidental removal incidents of important and large directory trees

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #100daysofCode #640DaysOfCode #1024DaysOfCode #programming

On my new NetBSD install I'm using 'oksh' - the portable version of OpenBSD's ksh - as my shell and wondered what in the world was going on with my arrow keys and moving through the shell history!

Adding...

set -o emacs

... to my ~/.kshrc sorted things out:

https://gitlab.com/dwarmstrong/dotfiles/-/raw/master/.kshrc?ref_type=heads

Slowly learning!

#oksh #ksh #NetBSD #RunBSD

Should've made this a long time ago:

function ciglob {
    #case-insensitive glob generator
    echo "$*" |while read -N1 c; do
        case "$c" in
            [a-zA-Z])   echo -n "[${c^^}${c,,}]";;
            *)          echo -n "$c"
        esac
    done
}

~ $ ciglob "Hello, world!"
[Hh][Ee][Ll][Ll][Oo], [Ww][Oo][Rr][Ll][Dd]!
~ $ ls -ld $(ciglob documents)
drwxr-xr-x 52 ~~~ ~~~ 20,480 Apr 10 11:45 Documents

(Not the most useful example, but I did have a use case in mind when I wrote it ;)

P.S. (This is a valid way to close a parenthesis. Fight me ;)

#bash #ksh #sh #shell #UnixShell #POSIX #PosixShell #ShellScripting

It's going to take awhile. Let's hope I like it when I'm done!

#ksh #oksh #werc #selfhosting

Yes you have seen it correctly, I'm now including __links__ the sh & console based browser, in my workflow, since it uses few resources, doesn't understand many of the modern languages, which results in pleasure and fun on the internet. You can even use links on a serial console like my Wyse terminal!

An Adblock is not need in this modus operandi.

The places which are properly coded, do not need even JavaScript are where I frequently get my information from

#POSIX #RetroComputing #csh #sh #ksh #bash #fish #Terminal #16550AF #Serial #Console #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #JavaScript #programming

I've obtained a separate HDD for my BSD installations.
This time I've made sure that I did not even turn off the SATA tray, in which the HDD resides

I've been able to repeat the exact error which I had gotten when I installed the freeBSD Operating System on the SSD:

After booting a Fresh installation, the FreeBSD bootloader barfs at the fact that it cannot find the kernel even though the drive was not moved

The fact that I used ghostBSD as a flavour variant doesn't matter since it's the latest version of ghostBSD which resides on the latest version of FreeBSD.

I love it when I find little bugs which are easily repeatable
I'll grind to the depths to detect why the bug occurs, repeat it and when I know why, I'll report it to the freeBSD team.

Just reporting bugs not my thing; I also want to report a fix.

🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #AskFediverse #WTF

I've reinstalled the ghost BSD gfx distro; I have manually wiped the partitions before running The installation sequence again.
ghostBSD does something very nice when you have enough memory
It creates a Ram disk with the whole install sequence in there which makes it lightning fast

This time after the reboot I could get into the operating system contrary to the last time

I'm still hunting down why that occurs
Images maybe included later I'm now busy with the PPE for cycling

I've just included three photographic compositions of the installation process for ghostBSD 👻

.🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #AskFediverse #WTF

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The photograph shows a computer screen displaying the Ventoy boot menu. The background of the screen is a light pink color with a subtle mountain landscape. At the top of the screen, the word "Ventoy" is prominently displayed in large blue letters, with a blue icon resembling a USB drive next to the letter "o." Below the title, there is a list of ISO files available for booting, including "AME_2H1_2021-08-09.iso," "atlas_v0.5.2.iso," "FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso," "GhostBSD-25.01-R14.2p1-XFCE.iso," "GhostBSD-25.01-R14.2p1.iso," "gparted-live-1.7.0.1-amd64.iso," "MX-21.1.July-x64.iso," "MX-21.3.ahs_x64.iso," and "MX-23.3.ahs_x64.iso." The list is contained within a gray box with a blue border. At the bottom of the screen, there are several function keys with their corresponding commands: "F1:Language," "F2:Browse," "F3:TreeView," "F4:Localboot," "F5:Tools," and "F6:ExtMenu." The version of Ventoy shown is "1.0.99 UEFI."

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The photograph shows a computer screen displaying the "Partition Editor" window from the "GHOSTBSD Installer." The window is pink with a black header and contains a table listing various partitions on a disk. The table has columns labeled "Partition," "Size(MB)," "Mount Point," and "System/Type." The partitions listed include "da0," "da0p1," "da0p2," "da0p3," "da0p4," "freespace1," "da1," "da1p1," "da1p2," "da1p3," "da2," "da2s1," "da2s2," and "nda0." The sizes of the partitions range from 2 MB to 488,386 MB. The "System/Type" column shows various file systems such as "CPT," "linux-data," "ms-basic-data," "none," "GPT," "linux," "linux-swap," "mix_cata," "MBR," "ntfs," "efi," and "CPT." The "freespace1" partition is highlighted, indicating it is selected. The window also includes buttons for "Create," "Delete," "Revert," "Auto," "Back," "Cancel," and "Next." The background of the screen is dark with a blue and green geometric pattern, and a cartoonish pink mouse is visible on the right side of the window.

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The photograph shows a computer desktop screen with a blue background featuring a geometric pattern. On the left side, there is a vertical file directory with various icons, including "Applications," "File Sync," "Touch," "Install," "Linux," "VMware," and others. The desktop also displays a window titled "Installation in progress" with a message thanking the user for choosing ghostBSD and providing information about the installation process. The window features a logo with a stylized "G" and a silhouette of a mouse. The bottom of the screen shows a taskbar with several icons, including a music player labeled "Music." The screen is part of a larger setup, with another monitor visible in the bottom right corner, displaying a blue background with the word "Music."

To make sure that everything starts up normally even when regular things are done, which should not influence the procedure, I left my ghostBSD installation alone for about a day

I inserted the external HDD in the tray, at the exact location where I had installed the Operating System, rebooted that MiniPC and fired up ghostBSD. A couple of nice things occur when you install ghostBSD instead of going flat with just freeBSD.

Configuration parameters for my HDMI IPS LED panel Zero was always added flawlessly since that is the display which I look at at boot

My secondary display which is connected to a mini DisplayPort (Zero) and then goes from mini DisplayPort to HDMI with an Active cable with circuitry in it, at the HDMI end, is automatically detected in the freeBSD configuration provided by the ghostBSD team.

That is a tremendously good feature which pleasantly surprised me.

Another BSD user told me here, that in the regular freeBSD installation you have to go and figure that out yourself, which is fine but not something I intended to do at this point.

Here are some images I just shot of the login screens with both IPS LED panels enabled

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The photograph shot in total darkness, features a close-up view of a window with horizontal slats, through which blue light is filtering. The slats are arranged in a diagonal pattern, creating a series of parallel lines that cast shadows and highlights. The light varies in intensity, with some slats appearing brighter and others darker, suggesting a gradient effect. The background is predominantly black, emphasizing the blue light and the slats. The image is vertically oriented, with the slats running from the top left to the bottom right, creating a dynamic visual effect. The overall composition is minimalist, focusing on the interplay of light and shadow through the slats. The secondary display shows the login requester for the current user

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The photograph features a close-up view of a structure illuminated with blue and turquoise lighting, creating a striking visual effect. The lighting is arranged in diagonal stripes, with varying shades of blue and turquoise, giving a sense of depth and movement. The background is predominantly dark, which enhances the brightness of the illuminated stripes. The image is divided into two sections, with the top section showing a slightly different angle of the same structure, and the bottom section providing a closer view of the illuminated stripes. A handle is visible on the left side of the bottom section, suggesting the structure might be a door or a panel. The overall composition emphasizes the interplay of light and shadow, creating a modern and dynamic aesthetic.

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The photograph shows two screens displaying a ghostBSD Xfce UI. The larger screen on the right is vertically oriented and shows a blue background with white geometric shapes, including a diamond shape in the center with a white silhouette of a landmass. There is a vertical white arrow pointing downwards, and a list of text on the left side. The smaller screen on the left is horizontally oriented and displays a similar blue background with white geometric shapes, including a diamond shape in the center with a white silhouette of a landmass. At the top of the screen, there is a row of white rectangles, possibly representing a timeline or progress bar. Both screens are set against a dark background, emphasizing the bright colors of the UI.

Now I am working on a test installation of freeBSD raw on disk.
The mechanical SATA HDD is of course running on the USB tray

This installation will have all the bells 🔔 and whistles including the sources and ports.

It takes a long while to extract the files since a RAM: disc is not made just as in ghostBSD

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The photograph displays a large blue screen with a smaller white window in the center displaying text. The text in the window reads "Extracting distribution files..." and lists several files being extracted. The window also shows a progress bar with the status "Done" in green. The screen is set against a black background, and there is a smaller blue screen in the bottom left corner with the word "Music" written on it. The overall color scheme is predominantly blue, with white and green text.

It's possible you've not heard of #boxyBSD

I was lucky to get a TIL moment when @stefano boosted it's existence into my feed.

However you should know about it, learn something about the user perspective from proxmox in the process, while working with a boxyBSD VM.

Here are some nice screencaps of the boxyBSD site so you can ask nicely for a VM and learn to play with one of the *BSD flavours from a distance.

I'm sure you can duckduckgo the address of boxyBSD when you analyze the screencaps, right?

🖋️ #bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

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THe screencap displays a black background with white text, featuring a terminal interface. At the top, the text "BoxyBSD" is prominently displayed in a stylized font. Below this, a command line reads "guest[@]mgmt-boxybsd-5:~$ cat services.txt," indicating a user named "guest" is executing a command to display the contents of a file named "services.txt." The text in the file describes a platform offering free virtual machines (VMs) for learning and practicing BSD-based systems and open-source projects. It specifies that the VMs come with IPv6-only networking, 1 CPU, 1 GB of RAM, and 10 GB of disk space. The network configuration includes an IPv6 subnet of 64/48 availability. The operating systems available are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MidnightBSD, DragonflyBSD, and OpenIndiana. The text also mentions that new boxes can only be registered by the BoxyBSD bot in their Matrix channel, with more information available on the website. Additional services offered include DNS, email, web hosting, runners, and shared shell, with a note encouraging users to contact for further information.

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shows a web browser window displaying the BoxyBSD.com website. The background of the webpage is black, with white text and a logo in the center. The logo reads "BoxyBSD" in a stylized font. Below the logo, there is a section titled "Info" with a paragraph describing BoxyBSD as a non-profit initiative and hosting provider dedicated to supporting the BSD community. The paragraph mentions that BoxyBSD offers free virtual machine hosting, email hosting, and web hosting solutions to help enthusiasts, students, and professionals gain hands-on experience in system administration, networking, and security without financial barriers. The text is in a monospace font, and the website's URL is visible at the top of the page. The browser's address bar shows the URL "https://boxybsd.com" and the page title "BoxyBSD.com 1.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) boxybsd.com/". The browser's tabs and bookmarks are visible at the top, with some of the tabs showing names like "MX Blog," "MX Forum," and "OpenVPN - Debian Wiki." The bottom of the page includes a copyright notice for 2025.

It has arrived. proxyLB v1.1.0 the loadbalancer for proxmox clusters. Instead of telling you the features of this major version I invite you to read about it yourself, download proxyLB then play with it.

As with any great Open Source project, this has grown out of a necessity that @gyptazy has for his other amazing project boxyBSD, which just needs a versatile tool like this.

Now go and play.

https://gyptazy.com/introducing-proxlb-1-1-0-as-an-advanced-loadbalancer-for-proxmox-clusters-a-complete-code-refactor-for-enhanced-performance-and-stability/

🖋️ #bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

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This is a screenshot of a blog post by an IT Consultant named Gyptazy. The post is titled "Introducing ProxLB 1.1.0 as an Advanced Loadbalancer for Proxmox Clusters: A Complete Code Refactor for Enhanced Performance and Stability." The date of the post is April 1, 2025, and it is categorized under "CODING, DEBIAN GNU/Linux, OS, PERSONALLY, PROJECTS, PROXLB, PROXLB, PROXLB, PROXMOX, VIRTUALIZATION." The post features an illustration of two server towers labeled "ProxLB" with a small blue car on a conveyor belt, set against a background of binary code. The text below the illustration reads, "April, April! No, even it's the first of April – this is real! After months of development, I'm thrilled to announce the release." The navigation bar at the top includes options for "ABOUT," "BLOG," "TALKS," "PROJECTS," and "SKILLS."

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The image shows a screenshot of a personal blog post by a user named "gyptazy," who is identified as a developer. The post is titled "April, April! No, even it's the first of April – this is real!" and announces the release of ProxLB 1.1.0. The post is dated mid-2024 and highlights the project's journey, mentioning that it was sponsored by credativ GmbH, allowing the author to work on it during work hours. The post emphasizes the significant milestone of the latest version, which includes a complete code refactor, improved load balancing behavior, and numerous bug fixes, making ProxLB more stable and capable than ever. The author explains that ProxLB was created as a straightforward load balancing solution for Proxmox clusters for their BoxyBSD project, similar to VMware's DRS. Additionally, several customers at credativ GmbH requested DRS-like features when migrating to Proxmox. The blog post is displayed on a dark background with text in white and orange, and navigation tabs at the top include "ABOUT," "BLOG," "TALKS," "PROJECTS," and "SKILLS."

Slides have been released on this wonderful piece of balancing software for your proxmox clusters proxyLB
Now you can learn even more about this piece of wonderful software

Courtesy of @gyptazy

🖋️ #bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

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The screenshot is of a mobile application interface, likely a version control system like GitHub. At the top, the time is displayed as 10:34, the temperature is 27 degrees, and the battery is at 94%. The username "gyptazy" is visible, followed by the repository name "ProxLB." The main image features a graphic of two server racks labeled "Prox LB" with a conveyor belt and a small truck on it, set against a background of binary code. Below the image, there is a warning message in a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark, stating "Important: ProxLB 1.1.x is coming." The message explains that the repository is under heavy work and changes, which may result in issues, non-working pipelines, or incorrect documentation. It advises selecting a stable release tag for a suitable version during this time. The interface also shows one open pull request.

@izder456

I am an individual who often does things in many fields, especially computing, in a weird and unexpected way. That's why I'm one of the efficient bèta testers for many different software programs which started in the days of the Waffle BBS's somewhere in the 90s of the last Century and still goes on to these days.
Going to the absolute beginning I even started to bèta test software on the Casio FX-700p; then I moved to the Commodore C64, the C128 where I debugged CPM software, then I moved on to the 286 PS2, the machine was loaded with the 287 Mathematics Co-processor, essential for running CAD software.

The reason for my specific booting of the SSD, the starter SSD, on the USB tray, a dual slot device, is because I currently have not made any specific space free for the operating system.

I miss going to my beautiful boxyBSD system which resides on the boxyBSD Network.

The reasons for that are somewhere in another thread, but it comes down to the fact that my brain dead ISP doesn't give us any IPv6 addresses from the get-go, while we pay them through the Nose for a puny 10MBit Connection on a obsolete xDSL router.

So I just went to one of my machines, a AMD MíniPC with 32GB RAM, didn't find any space where the operating system wanted to install on my resident m.2 SSD (no space due to Sound Engineering Audio projects) and my resident SATA SSD, for identical reasons.

In the end space was made on a SATA SSD which floats on my different SATA trays which are dual port.

I shrunk a partition and made 8GB free, which the installer divided in 7.1GB and 407+MB for Swap.

I immediately have to say that the installer teaches you what doesn't work and give you hints on where you can go and look for the reasons why.

I have an MBR SATA HDD, where I wanted to install the operating system.
The installer immediately warned me that I would get a non-bootable situation and it was right it didn't tell why but that's not important.

The SATA SSD was already converted from MBR to GPT, where of course it lost all data but that was unimportant, since it was scratch data. gPartEd warned me about the data loss

The semi-automatic installation liked the fact that the SSD was GPT, partitioned and happily did it's magic creating the file systems.

When after the installation, I powered down the tray and inserted a HDD in the open slot, not moving the SATA SSD, the FreeBSD boot environment told me that it could not find the boot partition.

For me that was a WTF moment since the SSD wasn't moved.

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The following must have occurred.

The installer did not use UUID to identify the boot partition. I assume it is because I use the semi-automatic method. I will repeat the installer to see how it happens when I use the full manual method;
I presume that I can then, tell the system that it needs to use the UUIDs for the identification of the partitions regarding root, home and the partitions regarding swap.

Until I get a dedicated SSD for my BSD installations, I shall not be able to make a separate partition for usr and other important sections of the tree which are better managed on separate partitions

🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #AskFediverse #WTF

Gotten tired of those massive browsers hogging GB (*1024 = MB) of ram? Want to go back to the days of text based browsing?

Links has got you covered. For decades (lynx and later) links gives us back the nostalgic feel of *sh* based browsing, just like BitchX gives it with IRC in the shell.

Look how smooth and fast it works with DuckDuckGo

#retroComputing #bash #csh #ksh #zsh #links #lynx #BitchX

I have found an interesting quirk with my freeBSD installation, running on my SATA SSD, which I mount through an USB tray, directly to the USB port on the computer.

As long as i leave the second port of the USB tray open, everything runs fine and smooth. The moment I mount another drive in the second port, freeBSD only does the initial part of the startup sequence and then complains that it cannot go any further.

No further explanation given

Seeking for log files is not an option because the operating system itself doesn't boot.

Where in the documentation should I look for this type of issue?

🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #AskFediverse