Should you abandon Linux and switch to *BSD?

The popularity of Linux skyrockets these days: More and more companies adapt it and even the just-above-average who doesn't accept the imposition that is called "Windows 10" is often open to try it out. However at the same time, the popularity of said System seems to be fading among some of the more technical people, …

3+ months on TrueOS – a critical write-up

My journey into the *nix world has not been a completely straight forward one. I've used Linux (various distributions) exclusively for quite some time before I felt that more and more things were heading in the wrong direction. Sure, it's all open source and I could do things my own way. In fact I did …

Setting up a FreeBSD/OpenBSD dual-boot with full disk encryption

A bit over a month ago, I bought my first refurbished laptop. Previously I used a ThinkPad (owned by the company I work for) for on-call duty. It's running a Linux distro which would not be my first choice at all, it has a small screen and - it's not my property. I wanted my …

Top things that I missed in 2015

Another year of blogging comes to an end. It has been quite full of *BSD stuff so that I'd even say: Regarding this blog it has been a BSD year. This was not actually planned but isn't a real surprise, either. I've not given up on Linux (which I use on a daily basis as …

An interview with the Nanolinux developer

2014 is nearly over and for the last post this year I have something special for you again. Last year I posted an interview with the EDE developer and I thought that another interview would conclude this year of blogging quite fine. In the previous post I reviewed Nanolinux (and two years ago XFDOS). Since …

Tiny to the extreme: Nanolinux

It has been more than two years since I wrote about XFDOS, a graphical FreeDOS distribution with the FLTK toolkit and some applications for it (the project's home is here.) Mr. Potthast didn't stop after this achievement however. Soon afterwards he published Nanolinux. And now I finally found the time to re-visit the world of …

Arch:E5 update and more repos (x11, gtk, fltk)

Finally I found some time to update and expand E5 a bit. The biggest news is surely the release of the e5-x11, e5-gtk and e5-fltk repositories. On the top of that packages have been updated and more than 80 new ones added (mostly to extra). This update also fixes a few issues that E5 had …

GTK-based applications #1: Terminal emulators summary (3/3)

Here's the summary of the GTK terminal emulator test. It provides four tables for easier comparison of the results. Overall Ranking I'll begin with the overall rating here since that's the most important thing. I've compared all DEs in terms of 1. memory consumption (most important for me and thus weighted *3), 2. disk space …

GTK-based applications #1: Terminal emulators (2/3)

Here's the second part of the GTK terminal emulators test. It's N - Z today. Again we have 9 terminal emulators to take a look at. The candidates Here are the candidates: QuTerm / Homepage ROXTerm / Homepage Sakura / Homepage Stjerm / Homepage Termite / Homepage Tilda / Homepage Tinyterm / Homepage vTerminal / …

GTK-based applications #1: Terminal emulators (1/3)

Today we're in for taking a look at the various terminal emulators out there which are based on GTK+. This first part deals with the ones which start with A to M. The candidates Here's the list of available GTK+ terminals I got working on Arch: Dwt / Homepage Evilvte / Homepage Ftjerm / Homepage …