2015 posts

• (61) Keyboards, layouts and ergonomics (pt. 1)

This blog post is the first of two about ergonomics and typing on a computer. It is about keyboards in general, touch-typing and injuries from frequent typing.

• (62) Keyboards, layouts and ergonomics (pt. 2)

The second part of this series describes another ergonomic keyboard and discusses keyboard layouts.

• (63) TEK – The “Truly Ergonomic Keyboard”

This post is my review of the TEK.

• (64) Puffy goes Pacman!

This is 2015’s April fool post: Presenting “ArchBSD/Open”

• (65) Pacman on OpenBSD (pt. 1)

This post is about my first attempt of getting Pacman to work on OpenBSD

• (66) Pacman on OpenBSD (pt. 2)

The second (and successful) attempt to bring Pacman to OpenBSD

• (67) FreeBSD – from the Linux user’s perspective (introduction)

This post introduces the most popular BSD system. Where does it come from? What is it good at? And why might you want to try it out?

• (68) Installing FreeBSD – a tutorial from the Linux user’s perspective

This blog post details the installation of FreeBSD (10.1).

• (69) Exploring FreeBSD (1/3) – a tutorial from the Linux user’s perspective

The first of three posts about what makes using FreeBSD different from using Linux. It deals with using the shell.

• (70) Exploring FreeBSD (2/3) – a tutorial from the Linux user’s perspective

The second post is about updating FreeBSD using binary updates as well as user and package management.

• (71) Exploring FreeBSD (3/3) – a tutorial from the Linux user’s perspective

The third and final post is about updating binary packages, the ports system and updating FreeBSD from source.

• (72) Thea: The gain of giving away for free

This post is about Thea, a game that was developed for Windows and an experimental port for Linux given away for free. I also write about a few thoughts on (more) open game development.

• (73) Top things that I missed in 2015

This post talks about some things that I would have liked to blog about in 2015 but didn’t find the time to do. (Perhaps there are some clues there what might happen in 2016?