FreeBSD Fun

Hello! Just finished my exams last friday.

I have been having lots of fun with an old machine that I had salvaged from Jamie's home quite some time ago.

Its a Pentium MMX 200Mhz machine, with 80MB RAM, a CDRW drive I salvaged from a dead PC from my dad's office, an old 20GB HDD from my granddad's PC. I bought a cheap realtek PCI ethernet card and plugged it in so I have access to the internet.

After I have all the required hardware in place, I installed DSL (Damn Small Linux) and a bigger version of the DSL, the DSL-n (Damn Small Linux - not). I had some fun with them, they were minimal OSs with a simple desktop environment, but their shell apps were not enough for me to perform tasks properly, as they ran out of an application emulator of some sort.

So i decided to move on and get myself FreeBSD. I seriously had lots of fun tweaking and installing packages to get everything working properly for me. At first I ran RELEASE-6.2, then I found out that many packages were out of date, so I switched to RELEASE-7.0. The system is great (extremely easy to install too), and relatively fast judging that it ran on quite a slow machine (I'm pretty sure there are other hackers out there running even slower machines and using them as web servers or other purposes...). I have the latest firefox browser, running on xfce4.4. xfce4 is really simple (which I really like alot), it has a simple panel at the bottom of the screen which allows me to open a simple text editor (mousepad), my browser, terminal and the xfce menu if I want to do other stuff.

I enabled the sshd (secure shell daemon) so that I can login to my system from anywhere (I also forwarded the port in my gateway), so that next time I can also serve files on my FreeBSD system! :)

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