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Author: -fab- <fab@redterminal.org> License: CC BY 4.0 Published on: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:47:57 +0200 Last updated: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:30:00 +0100
On monday, 3rd october 2022 I moved my gemini server to a smaller VPS and switched from Debian 11 to FreeBSD 13.1. Here's a list of the most notable software I use on this machine.
I switched from Debian to FreeBSD as my OS for the gemini server. This is mainly out of curiositiy. I want to gain some experience in running and maintaining a FreeBSD machine in the long run.
Services that are started by inetd, which comes with the FreeBSD OS:
fingerd: Finger service with my own scripts to handle connections
gophernicus: Gopher service which provides my gopher hole
I've reverted back to this server on 26 Feb 2024 because gemserv from int80h ran extremely unstable on my FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE machine. Someone advised me to go for molly-brown by solderpunk. I think I'll switch to this server although I have to compile it myself in go. But I'll approach this undertaking in a much more careful manner in a few days/weeks.
I used this server for a long time and it's mainly focused on security, which made it an excellent gemini server for my capsule. Unfortunately gmid dropped CGI completely with version 2.0.0 and I want to play around with it. So I switched back to gemserv from int80h. gmid is licensed under the permissive ISC license.
Kineto is a gemini2web proxy by Drew Devault. It is written in Go. I use it, so I don't need to convert my capsule gmi files to html. Easy to use and supports own CSS styles. It is licensed under GPLv3. It's also in the FreeBSD package repos, so it was easy to continue using it. In fact, I needed to compile kineto on my old Debian 11 box from the git repo. No need for that anymore thanks to the maintainers!
I use the gemlog.sh script from nytpu to create the index and feed files for my gemlog. It eases my work a lot. It uses the GNU AGPLv3 License.
I switched back to this server because I needed it's CGI functionality. Development of this server has fairly slowed down, so I don't know how long I still can use it. For now it's still packaged with the FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE packages. It's unclear if int80h will go on developing this promising project - so maybe I need to find another solution. gemserv is distributed under a free license.
A Gemini Protocol Server written by Drew Devault. It's written in C and provided under the terms of the GNU GPLv3. I dropped this one on my move to FreeBSD.
I want to thank these good people, who wrote this awesome and useful software and made their good work available for free.
All in all - have fun!
-fab-
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