Usually we regard the phrase "the modern approach" as something that denote improvement over time, something that has changed to the better. However, the phrase "the modern approach" are often abused and we must be careful to separate fact from hype. https://unixdigest.com/articles/when-the-modern-approach-is-nothing-but-hype.html
A bad trend is becoming a standard at more and more tech companies when interviewing candidates for job positions. https://unixdigest.com/articles/job-interviews-in-tech-gone-haywire.html
As an operating system GNU/Linux has become a mess because of the fragmented nature of the project, the bloatware in the kernel, but mainly because of the manipulation by corporate interests. There exist several technical reasons for when a migration from GNU/Linux to BSD make sense, but this article isn't about that, it's an "analyzes" of the current status in Linux-land, and it is an opinionated rant, more than anything else. https://unixdigest.com/articles/why-you-should-migrate-everything-fr
This is the second part of the tutorial. In this part we're going to install Xfce and rice it a bit. You can look further down in the tutorial at the screenshots in order to determine if you like the results. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-freebsd-with-a-riced-desktop-part-2-xfce.html
In this three part tutorial I am going to show you how you can setup FreeBSD with a riced Xfce or i3 desktop. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-freebsd-with-a-riced-desktop-part-1-basic-setup.html
After I posted the first part of this article it got posted on Hacker News, Reddit and Lobsters, and someone named "harryruhr" posted a response on his blog which he titled Should you migrate from Linux to BSD? It depends.. In the response harryruhr makes a couple of erroneous arguments I feel the need to address. https://unixdigest.com/articles/why-you-should-migrate-everything-from-linux-to-bsd-part-2.html
In my previous article titled Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD I stated that "BSD is the place to be". However, this doesn't mean that there aren't any good Linux distributions! On the contrary, there exist some really good Linux distributions out there where the developers and maintainers have removed all systemd dependencies, and where people are also aware of the status of the kernel development and Red Hat's and Microsoft's corporate influences in todays development of Lin
In this part we're going to install i3 and rice it bit. You can look further down in the tutorial at the screenshots in order to determine if you like the results. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-freebsd-with-a-riced-desktop-part-3-i3.html
ZFS on Linux might get a lot of the latest features, and with a distribution like Arch Linux you have the bleeding edge, but it makes great sense to migrate everything ZFS related to FreeBSD. On FreeBSD ZFS is a first class citizen. This means that you don't have to worry about hostile kernel commits that suddenly breaks ZFS, or kernel modules that has to be re-compiled every time the kernel is updated. Being a first class citizen also means that the entire operating system is tailored to work r
A question I frequently get asked is how you choose between the operating systems OpenBSD and FreeBSD. In this small article I'll try to answer that question. https://unixdigest.com/articles/choosing-between-openbsd-and-freebsd.html
