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title = "Daemonic BSD Site"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-03-06T14:45:00+01:00
categories = ["bsd"]
draft = false
weight = 1001
abstract = "A site dedicated to BSD family of systems"
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BSDs are a family of operating systems derivative from Berkley Standard Distribution.
While not a popular as GNU/Linux, they are the defect descendants of the Unix Operating System.
This site is dedicated to two of those systems: FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
Those are the systems I daily run on my personal computers and servers.
And, while they come with significant problems, it's very easy to fall in love them.


## History of BSD {#history-of-bsd}

Does computer history have any real appliance?
Not really.
Does it explain certain, potentially baffling things? Certainly.
But does it make great beer talk?
Absolutely!
Especially when discussing systems with such rich history as BSD.
I will be gentle here, I promise.
No _Hardcore History_ in sight.

{{< menu "bsd-history" >}}
History of BSD
{{< /menu >}}


## FreeBSD {#freebsd}

{{< img-r "freebsd-beastie.png" >}}
Beastie, the BSD mascott
{{< /img-r >}}

FreeBSD is the oldest living BSD system.
It's full of features which I found essential to my happy computer usage.
It's hard to live without ZFS or Jail system.

Here are my guides to those features:

{{< menu "bsd-freebsd" >}}
FreeBSD
{{< /menu >}}


### FreeBSD on a Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen2 {#freebsd-on-a-thinkpad-x1-extreme-gen2}

I run FreeBSD on my personal laptop.
This comes with significant problems: battery life is bad and WiFi is a hit miss.
You can find some of my wins bellow:

{{< menu "bsd-thinkpad" >}}
FreeBSD
{{< /menu >}}


## OpenBSD {#openbsd}

{{< img-r "openbsd.png" >}}
OpenBSD Logo
{{< /img-r >}}

The sites you are browsing is running on OpenBSD.
The idea behind this idea is to make it security-first.
And this is what the system achieved: the most secure OS I know of.
It comes with a lot of interesting (and strange) things, so it's also an interesting experiense.

Here you can find some of my guides:

{{< menu "bsd-openbsd" >}}
FreeBSD
{{< /menu >}}


## Varia {#varia}

Sometimes I write non-technical articles on technical subjects:

{{< menu "bsd-varia" >}}
FreeBSD
{{< /menu >}}