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About


The Neunix Gemlog is all about tech. Its articles cover mostly software-related topics (a lot of *BSD, a bit of illumos and some Linux) as well as everything else about the IT that I find time and motivation to write about. Focus is on FreeBSD as that is my daily driver OS but I try to touch on a lot of interesting things.


New posts


(February 2023) Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework - part 6: Jails (IV)

The fourth and final article on basic jails management discusses executing commands in jails from the host, changing a jail's configuration, updating the jail userland and managing snapshots of jails.


(December 2023) The TEK Cleave: A unique typing experience

My review of the TEK Cleave keyboard as well as thoughts on keyboard use cases and ideas for further improvement.


(October 2023) EuroBSDCon 2023 report (2/2) – Main conference, social event & conclusion

Second part of my trip report on EuroBSDCon 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal. This post covers the main conference days, the social event and the journey back home plus a conclusion.


(September 2023) EuroBSDCon 2023 report (1/2) – arrival & tutorial days

First part of my trip report on EuroBSDCon 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal. It extensively covers the arrival journey as well as both of the tutorial days quite extensively to (hopefully) convey some of that conference experience and feeling.


(May 2023) Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework - part 5: Jails (III)

The third article on jails shows how to create jails using _jconf files_ and via argument passing on the command line as well as deleting jails. It uses Seafile as an example on how to create a jailed private cloud and also briefly discusses the implications of using jails for networked services.


(April 2023) Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework - part 4: Jails (II)

The second article on jails covers the interactive creation script with an unusual use-case to show off a few less common options you have when working with jails. Also filesystem mounts for making jails partially read-only and still useful are explained.


(February 2023) Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework - part 3: Jails (I)

This article is about creating the first jail with CBSD and managing it. CBSD's dialog-like menu system as the easiest method is covered in-depth.


(January 2023) Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework - part 2: Setup

The second article of this series details the initial setup of CBSD which is necessary before it can be used.


Posts from 2022


Overview of 2022 posts

The gemlogging year started very late for me in 2022. After a very successful 2021 I took a long break to work on coordinating the Advance!BSD project and drive that forward

and repeated that later. Therefore I only wrote 5 articles in total and nearly missed the first half of the year entirely. What I got done are all articles that I'm proud of,

though: An article about revisiting the original FreeBSD 1.0 (from 1993!) in two parts; the summary of my thoughts about EuroBSDCan in Vienna after attending; and finally th

e first two article in a (surely longer) series on the CBSD tool for virtualization management. So 2022 was different but fine.


Posts from 2021


Overview of 2021 posts

The year 2021 has been incredibly productive and despite the additional work for bi-posting most of my articles, using my Gemlog has put the fun back into writing. I've published _three_ post series with four or more articles each. One was about PXE-booting various operating systems from a FreeBSD server, another about using OPNsense to get rid of my ISP-provided router and the last one about package building on FreeBSD with Synth. I've written two articles about Advance!BSD, a project idea to build a not-for-profit, community-based hosting provider and two more about a comparison of Pkgsrc and Ravenports. In two articles I explained my stance on why I think the Stallman drama was a pretty bad campaign and why that position does not make me a women hater at all. I've also written on a dangerous trend in Open Source to not let smaller projects participate and on re-learning touch-typing a second time with another keyboard layout.


Posts from 2020


Overview of post-EerieLinux posts 2020

There are only two post-"EerieLinux" posts in 2020, because the decision to re-organize my blogging activity by re-basing things on Gemini space happened only in the last quarter of the year. Those two posts are about quite different topics: The first one celebrates my first addition to the FreeBSD Ports Collection and is related to Gemini, the second is about IBM killing the classic CentOS Linux distribution and some thoughts on what could be done with a BSD-inspired Linux distro.


Old posts (from former "EerieLinux" blog)


I've decided to take some of the old articles from my former Weblog and make them available on Gemini as well. As a bonus you'll get to read slightly improved versions.


Posts from 2020


Overview of 2020 posts

This is the first part of my 2020 posts; the year is split due to me moving on from the old form of my blog (Web-only "EerieLinux") to my new platform (Gemini-based 'Neunix' which is only "mirrored" on the Web). This year was weird in other respects, too. Thanks to all the fuss with COVID-19 hitting the world and impacting all our lives, I didn't get around to post articles even after writing them. And just as I was getting back on track, I grew so sick of Wordpress that I decided to finally make a change. These are the posts that were still written on WP.


Posts from 2019


Overview of 2019 posts

After the exceptional 2018, year 8 of my blogging activities fell just slightly short of the great year 2017. I wrote Articles about FreeBSD on ARM hardware, using FreeBSD ports with tools, a series on various operating systems on ULTRA SPARC hardware and my first series on programming (daemonization on FreeBSD with Python). Single posts include a rant against GPL supremacy, one more article about Ravenports and a return to OmniOSce among other things.


Posts from 2018


Overview of 2018 posts

Year seven of my blogging activity meant the pinnacle of EerieLinux: While I published less posts than one year before, the page hits further increased after an already incredibly good year 2017. In the end over 25,700 visitors caused more than _46,700_ hits! I published two controversial articles about permissive licenses vs. copyleft and FreeBSD's adoption of a feminist COC. A series on email did not receive much attention and I got distracted after writing part 2. What distracted me was a new cross-platform package system: Ravenports. I wrote multiple articles about it. That year also saw me getting into Solaris land for the first time, taking a look at OpenSolaris derivative OmniOS.


Posts from 2017


Overview of 2017 posts

Over year six my visitor count skyrocketed: In all years except the first one, my blog had had around 7,000 page hits. 2017 saw over _32,000_. This was due to two series of articles that were very well received: One about an experiment of exploring and updating an ancient FreeBSD 4.11 system and one about building your own little home router. With 8 posts straight, the latter was also my longest up to this point. I also wrote about jails as well as package management and ports on FreeBSD and a couple of other things.


Posts from 2016


Overview of 2016 posts

Year five of my blogging career meant writing about various topics such as compression and version control. I did not deliberately choose BSD-related topics, but my interest in these systems simply never vanished after I had started exploring them. And so 2016 saw me getting deeper with articles on dual-booting, an overview of the four major BSD systems as well as Vagrant and Bacula on FreeBSD. It was an interesting time when I also wrote about comparing Linux and BSD: Regarding documentation differences in one article and eventually in general. The year ended with a well received article about using TrueOS as a daily driver for 3 months.


Posts from 2015


Overview of 2015 posts

My fourth blogging year started out with posts about touch-typing, but then I completely went down the BSD route. OpenBSD at first, then mostly FreeBSD. The year ends with some thoughts about a game studio giving away the Linux version of their game for free.


(Most) posts from 2014


Overview of 2014 posts

The beginning of my third blogging year was dedicated mostly to the E5 distribution experiment. After that follows articles on various topics: Licenses, RISC-V hardware, the incident known as "shell shock" and more on the light-weight side of Linux. I also published my first kind of "political" article despite never wanting to do that on a tech blog - but when there's danger to the freedom on the net I surely had to make a stand for sanity, didn't I?


(Some) posts from 2013


Overview of 2013 posts

In my second blogging year I mostly continued with more preparation for building my experimental Linux distro: A lot of applications that use various toolkits were tested and reviewed (I did not bring those posts over, though). Other than that I begun to be interested in the broader *nix family, peeking at some non-Linux operating systems and finally got my hands dirty digging into Linux systems and then beginning to build my own.


(Some) posts from 2012


Overview of 2012 posts

My first blogging year (or actually half year since I started in the second half of 2012): I'm writing about the Linux distribution experiment that I had in mind and evaluate available software to find good light-weight components to pick for the distro.



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