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Running FreeBSD on Pinebook, a review

FreeBSD has an official image for Pinebook, 14″ edition which was initially released on November 2018. Since then they have released multiple versions which the latest one at the time of authoring this article is r342020, released on December 13. In this article, first, we go through the installation process of FreeBSD on Pinebook. Then […]

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How to fix corrupted filesystems in FreeBSD

I have an installation of FreeBSD on VirtualBox and once in awhile I work with it. Working with FreeBSD indeed is very amazing and it is a world itself. Anyhow, few days ago when I was working with the FreeBSD on VirtualBox on my Ubuntu machine, Unity got crazy and crashed. Therefore, I had to […]

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Reinstall package manager in FreeBSD 10.X

pkg_info/pkg_create/pkg_add commands have been replaced in FreeBSD version 10.X by pkg. Personally I think the new package manager is quite amazing and way better than the old one. For more details about new features, refer to this link. However, on very rare and unusual occasions pkg might break and stop working. For instance, in my […]

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How to change command prompt in FreeBSD

By default FreeBSD does not show anything in command prompt such as path, username, hostname except $. For many this can be quite annoying. As an example user does not know the current path and to get that must run pwd which is a redundant step. To have a more user friendly prompt, just small […]

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How to install FreeBSD 9.0 on VirtualBox

The article expresses about installing FreeBSD version 9.0 as a virtual machine on ViirtualBox application. In the first part of tutorial you will familiar about installation procedure of FreeBSD. The next step is about configuration and installation VirtualBox Guest Addition package on FreeBSD. Finally, the last section talks about Graphic User Interface(GUI) in FreeBSD and […]

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