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    • UNIX: ZFS
      IT Discussion • linux storage unix raid sam linux administration freebsd bsd lvm zfs software raid solaris logical volume managers file system • • scottalanmiller  

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    • How to Update Packages on TrueOS
      IT Discussion • unix freebsd bsd trueos • • scottalanmiller  

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      Traditionally TrueOS has been a good desktop.
    • Salt-Minion Fails to Start on TrueOS BSD
      IT Discussion • unix saltstack freebsd bsd trueos salt-minion • • scottalanmiller  

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    • Lumina Desktop 2.0 Leverages QML and is Due Soon
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    • Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD
      IT Discussion • unix ssh bsd dragonfly bsd • • scottalanmiller  

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      @black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD: @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD: Dragonfly is tough by default because unless you use something like Salt, you can't connect to it to get keys to it in the first place. You can curl keys to it, of course. But you need totally different processes than you would typically use with any other OS to get it set up. That means it's not even Ansible friendly. Pretty much agent-based tools like Puppet, Salt, etc... is the way to go. Yup, unless you have some way to push the Ansible key ahead of time, like in a curl. So back to the beginning there
    • Errors Installing SaltStack on NetBSD 7.1.1
      IT Discussion • unix saltstack salt bsd netbsd netbsd 7.1.1 • • scottalanmiller  

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      @scottalanmiller said in Errors Installing SaltStack on NetBSD 7.1.1: Got it, it was a packaging versioning issue. I had accidentally set the verison to 8.0 when it was 7.1.1. I got a clean install and set the package version correctly and now it works fine. If you want to know how to set the version accurately automatically, try this that I just made... export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/`uname -m`/`uname -r`/All/" That's exactly what I was thinking but didn't say anything. I wanted to see what you'd do.
    • Bootstrap or Install PKG on FreeBSD Automatically
      IT Discussion • unix freebsd bsd pkg • • scottalanmiller  

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    • FreeBSD 11.1 Failing SaltStack Install Error
      IT Discussion • saltstack freebsd bsd freebsd 11.1 • • scottalanmiller  

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      I would check if there are any DNS errors trying to get the Repos or sites then look at this: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/issues/996 More recently on this: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225104
    • GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce
      News • unix phoronix freebsd bsd xfce mate unix desktop bsd desktop ghostbsd ghostbsd 11.1 • • mlnews  

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      @black3dynamite said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce: @scottalanmiller said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce: My Xfce download is underway. What's GhostBSD default desktop environment? MATE and Xfce. Those are the only two that they make.
    • DragonFlyBSD 5.0 Has Released
      News • unix phoronix bsd dragonfly bsd hammer dragonfly bsd 5 hammer2 • • mlnews  

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      The Linux world is complex enough for normal users. BSD just pushed them that much farther over the edge.
    • Simple Proofs that Linux Is Not an Operating System with Ubuntu and Debian
      IT Discussion • linux windows ubuntu debian bsd kernel operating systems it basics gnu hurd gnu linux • • scottalanmiller  

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      My Linux is better than your Linux.
    • BSD Based Secure Smartphone Project
      News • telephony freebsd bsd pfsense smartphone bhyve • • mlnews  

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    • Phoronix Benchmarks of DragonFly 4.8
      News • unix phoronix bsd dragonfly bsd benchmark dragonfly dragonfly bsd 4.8 • • mlnews  

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    • DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released
      News • unix softpedia bsd dragonfly bsd • • mlnews  

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      @dafyre said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released: @scottalanmiller said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released: @matteo-nunziati said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released: for curiosity sake: who is actually using dragonfly bsd and why? I've deployed it a bit in labs. I'm always watching it closely because Hammer is very important. Hammer? One of the world's most advanced fileystems. Dragonfly is important as a kernel alternative ecosystem to FreeBSD, from which it split (in many ways Dragonfly is the real FreeBSD and FreeBSD is the "new" product that split from it) but its real relevance is as a filesystem research platform. The kernel maintainer there writes a totally unique filesystem, called Hammer, just for Dragonfly.
    • Popular Enterprise UNIX Server Operating Systems 2017
      IT Discussion • linux unix bsd • • scottalanmiller  

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      I have a copy of SCO Unix. Very niche. Full box and license. Found it when i was clearing out the IT attic at work. I havent seen a Solaris box since 2010.
    • UNIX: sudo
      IT Discussion • linux security unix sam linux administration freebsd bsd solaris sudo sam freebsd administration • • scottalanmiller  

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    • FreeNAS Domain Failure on AD
      IT Discussion • freebsd bsd freenas samba samba 4 kerberos freebsd 10.3 winbind kinit • • scottalanmiller  

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      @DustinB3403 said in FreeNAS Domain Failure on AD: @scottalanmiller any news yet? Nope
    • UNIX: The root user
      IT Discussion • linux unix sam linux administration bsd system administration • • scottalanmiller  

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    • ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID
      IT Discussion • linux storage ubuntu unix raid freebsd bsd zfs freenas solaris hardware raid filesystems trueos openzfs truenas • • scottalanmiller  

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      @tjatwood109 said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @scottalanmiller Thanks - I will proceed without using ZFS - I prefer hardware RAID. Tim ZFS is perfectly fine with hardware RAID, if you like ZFS' features otherwise (like zsend is nice) then there's no reason to avoid it. If you don't plan to use any unique features, then XFS is my "go to" choice by default. Very fast, very stable.
    • UNIX: What Is a Tarball
      IT Discussion • linux unix sam linux administration system administration bsd solaris compression tar sam freebsd administration archive tarball • • scottalanmiller  

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      @JJoyner1985 said in UNIX: What Is a Tarball: So, do you think the reason I am seeing a lot more gzip in use with tarballs is due to the familiarity of gzip and the negligible difference in the compression between it and bzip2? Basically, bzip2 doesn't make enough of an improvement with sufficient regularity to entice people to move away from gzip, or is there some other benefit to gzip that my training material hasn't covered? That's correct. The difference between the two is generally small enough that people are not concerned. And lots of systems still don't have bzip2 installed by default so if you want scripts or whatever to work universally you often use gzip because you know that it is always there and predictable.
    • First Look at Lumina 1.0 on PC-BSD
      IT Discussion • unix freebsd bsd pc-bsd lumina unix desktop pc-bsd 10.3 • • scottalanmiller  

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    • Lumina Desktop Hits 1.0.0 Release
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      Now that I'm on fiber I seem to be able to post screen shots. More to come tomorrow. It is very late here.
    • Linux: Using tar
      IT Discussion • linux unix sam linux administration bsd system administration compression tar archiver • • scottalanmiller  

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    • UNIX Scheduling with cron
      IT Discussion • linux unix sam linux administration bsd solaris cron crontab cron job • • scottalanmiller  

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    • Installing FreeBSD 10.3 with ZFS on Scale HC3
      IT Discussion • scale scale hc3 unix freebsd ntg lab bsd freebsd 10.3 • • scottalanmiller  

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      zroot is #1 reason to love ZFS !!
    • OpenBSD 5.9 Install on Scale HC3
      IT Discussion • scale scale hc3 ntg lab bsd openbsd openbds 5.9 scale hc2100 • • scottalanmiller  

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      I'll definitely share! ))
    • FreeBSD 10.3 Released
      News • freebsd bsd freebsd 10.3 • • mlnews  

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      Updated our slave database servers to 10.3 a couple of weeks ago... we roll out phases since we've got so many damn servers. It's always a nightmare. If no issues for the next couple of weeks or additional patches, we'll roll out to primary database servers (they're all sets of master-master, the slaves are for search primarily, but also are useful for a live test if everything passes staging, and they're a hot backup too if any issues arise) and then web servers. We never go down so it's a painfully slow process.
    • Introducing UbuntuBSD
      News • ubuntu open source unix softpedia bsd ubuntubsd • • mlnews  

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      @tonyshowoff said: @BBigford said: @tonyshowoff said: @BBigford said: @scottalanmiller said: Yeah, the GNU/Linux people seem to have died off long ago. It was one of those big trends once upon a time. Richard Stallman died off? .... (joke) I swear, in EVERY conversation I've heard him engage, he spins the conversation into the naming (GNU/Linux... NOT Linux). I think in the flick Revolution OS he talked about it no less than 60 times. That movie also hinted at what a total psycho Eric S Raymond also is with his bizarre explosive behaviour. He's also pretty... pretty extremely sexist and actually not even really that technical, he's more like Stallman. What I do like is him complaining about Stallman, sometimes it's pretty funny what he writes and calls him out on. I don't remember him being explosive in that movie. Got any examples to refresh my memory? Well when the interviewer brings up that some people compare open source to communism, something that actually almost never happens in real life, his face turns bright red, he flips out and gives a very 1950s ice America view of life under Marxism. As someone from such a country, it was really strange. It did seem like he was trying to restrain himself. Haha I forgot about some of those lines. Thanks for the refresh. Been a while since I've watched that flick.
    • Installing and Testing PC-BSD 10.2 on the Scale HC3
      IT Discussion • scale scale hc3 freebsd bsd screenshots pc-bsd pc-bsd 10.2 bsd desktop ixsystems • • scottalanmiller  

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      @KOOLER already tested vanilla FreeBSD
    • Phoronix Tests 3 BSD and 10 Linux OSes for Performance
      News • linux ubuntu fedora phoronix opensuse intel debian bsd opensuse tumbleweed pc-bsd opensuse leap dragonfly bsd openbsd arch linux antergos clear linux • • mlnews  

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      @scottalanmiller said: For home laptop use (non-gaming) be sure to check out PC-BSD. It's screaming fast, super stable and very responsive. In this particular article it was a solid, but not fastest, performer in the transcoding benchmarks they ran, which were about as close to web serfing and video watching. PC-BSD is the fastest bar none if you're compiling software or iops intensive workloads.