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A fanless thin client PC lacks ECC and multiple network interfaces, but some have a PCIe slot to add a low profile dual card. Things with fans must be hacked and silenced with a massive aluminum heatsink, perforated sheet metal case and natural convection air flow.

I started using NanoBSD for my home router, then sometimes used a desktop on it, but was not comfortable with volatile /var in RAM when using pkg, and do not like a writable /etc. I left NanoBSD and did a normal installation with custom /etc/fstab that mounts read-only almost all partitions...

I will probably use ZFS, but how much work and knowledge of FreeBSD internals are needed to support write on XFS or EXT4 ?

What were the best Thinkpads with ThinkLight and less wide screens like UXGA or SXGA(+) ?

dd and geom safety to prevent foot shooting is a treasure. Without it on Linux, I nuked once my 1TB data disk because I forgot to check if drive letter /dev/sd? was still the same after reboot.

In the same water dispenser analogy, how should be drawn RAID-Z for non-techies ? To show off ZFS, maybe with smaller bottles feeding the larger ones, through lots of tubing, sensors, pumps and motor valves, with a PLC and HMI displaying a water treatment plant schematic.

After recently switching firewall from Cisco IOS to FreeBSD pf, I found many helpful good tutorials and examples for classic syntax and ALTQ, and will never accept or need OpenBSD's new pf.

Cherry Cyboa@rd Combo RS13000, white with light blue panel of small multimedia round keys and blue wrist rest. But I hope one day keyboards will break free from the legacy of qwerty staggered layout and software keymapping (don't you hate when you type a key and you see another on the screen ?)...

I wonder if development and sales of commercial software relies heavily on integration with commercial OS featuring slick desktops and more advanced graphics/video/audio stacks.

I've seen data loss (mangled lines) too on many i386 FreeBSD's local console connecting to router's serial port with cu, even at slow speed. It may not always be related to lack of flow control, since it only happens in bare sc, while serial input is always correct on full load at 115200 in a...

Hello embedded superusers, I'd like to see a supported ARM development board with USB OTG not in host mode, that can be seen by other hosts (running any OS with full USB support) as HID or audio I/O (PCM or MIDI) or Media Transfer Protocol device. Does it exist? Can FreeBSD USB stack be modified...

Is there only to replace the divert natd ruleset shown in IPFW handbook with ipfw nat rules as shown on ipfw man page? I am trying to build a home gateway, using net/mpd5 that also has NAT. Is it better to use IPFW in-kernel NAT?

I can't let pkg deinstall or reinstall anything that was not requested on the command line, just because a few dependencies are unable to know if they match packages that were installed from ports. In the source of pkg, where is the code that checks for dependencies, and create a list of (not...

Samba NAS Wireless hostap Torrent transmission-daemon Asterisk PBX on separate voice VLAN Postfix + Dovecot mail used to be a world [re]builder until the switch to svn and pkgng, now building world and ports on much faster VM. Hardware: i386 HP t5540 thin client server, 2 GB, 32 GB SLC SSD...

net/nemesis expired because llibnet-1.0.2 was removed. But they can still be retrieved from http://nemesis.sourceforge.net and https://ips-builder.googlecode.com/files/libnet-1.0.2a.tar.gz, then compiled with devel/gmake and devel/gcc.

While trying to reuse some junk PC as a fanless/headless server with FreeBSD 8-STABLE, it needed audio/beep to make some noises, but the port has expired. I can still install the package, but not hack the source as intended. After extracting the port from an old ports tarball, the distfile was...

Re: Building a NanoBSD image quickly using pre-compiled bina I stopped using nanobsd.sh. I lost the hacked one, and it became too monolithic, with customer-specific heredoc's everywhere. The target image is partitioned with gpart. Some applications with removable USB stick can include a FAT32...

pkg did not care about my ports built with custom options, and wanted to reinstall/overwrite them with default packages from repository. Had to comment out the relevant lines in the source of pkg.

Is anybody trying to use Bluetooth as a cheap WiFi replacement? I tried btpand to share the uplink connection, bridging the Ethernet interface and tap0 created for btpand, between two hosts running 9.2-STABLE i386. In /etc/bluetooth, hosts and hcsecd.conf were edited with bdaddr of devices found...

Re: Building a NanoBSD image quickly using pre-compiled bina Thanks for this much needed rewrite of NanoBSD script, using binaries instead of source. I hacked nanobsd.sh to avoid wasting image space in addition to build time. My goal is to run NanoBSD on thin clients reused as network...