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When was the last time that you ran

`dmesg|less` on your linux system?

You **NEVER** did?

You dont know what you are missing my POSIX dweller!

Look at the awsome input to your brains!!!

Of course you should first run

`man dmesg` since you should not trust a command which uses sudo from a stranger on the internet

man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/…

<< dmesg - print or control the kernel ring buffer

Yes on debian based machines, for some odd reason you are not allowed to run dmesg anymore as a regular user, so I run

`sudo dmesg|less`

Now you know what dmesg does, run it and learn to the bit, what happens on your linux machine when you cycle through the POST sequence

#POSIX #Linux #dmesg #POST

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When was the last time that you've run 'dmesg' on your BSD system?

It's very easy you know you just type
$ dmesg
You don't even need to sudo it like in the Linux operating system

#POSIX #dmesg #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #dmesg #POST #programming

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One other thing I've also noticed with the freeBSD flat install; only daemons that are actually needed run in background.
I naturally installed htop / mc / bash / moc because those are programs I always use.

In Linux when I have x.org running, a lot of daemons are running in background. I have to say though that I deliberately also make kernel processes visible. But they overflow a standard terminal page in console mode

In freeBSD it's quiet in comparison which is pleasant to see

#POSIX #dmesg #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #dmesg #POST #programming

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As you can clearly see here, I'm using the excellent documentation provided with the freeBSD Operating System, which you can immediately install locally at the end of the freeBSD flat vanilla installation, which means that you can run your machine air gapped if it's some kind of super secure machine.

Naturally you need to know about the existence of links, the command line browser, and you need to know that you have to install links using the pkg tools.
That is something that I do not need to teach or tell you, because you already know how to work with the shell, I mean you've had a Amiga computer in the 1980s and you've had a Commodore 64 computer in the 1970s right?

And if you're a bit more mature you've worked with a PDP computer right? So you even know how to program with punch cards so I don't need to explain these things to you, right?

#POSIX #RetroComputing #PDP #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #dmesg #POST #programming

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This also means that I should have the FAQ, frequently asked questions, on my /usr/local/doc partition

That should also mean that I should be able to find the command sequence, needed to activate my secondary display fast

That IPS LED panel is connected through my Mini DisplayPort on my Mini PC

No let's check for the actual availability of the FAQ and find that information

Here is a beautiful photograph of my Wyse terminal, which I can use from boot in freeBSD without entering any Special command Line instructions

Only freeBSD makes this possible!

#POSIX #RetroComputing #Amiga #C64 #PDP #Wyse #Terminal #16550AF #Serial #Console #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #dmesg #POST #programming

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Who wants to guess the reason why I felt obliged to install freeBSD again.

The error I got was rather interesting one. I gave the installer the chance to do a semi-automatic ufs file system separation and it divided the 20 GB that I had in the following manner 7.8 gigs for root 2 gigs for swap the rest for home.

No you know what happened I installed a few utilities with PKG and unsurprisingly those filled up the root partition.

I'm not going to search for the reason why the installer made that unwise separation.
The reason for that is because the second time around installer seem to have gone wiser and just made one big root of 19 gigs and one gig for swap which means that home now also resides in the root partition, which is fine by me since this is just a test installation on the metal.

#POSIX #RetroComputing #Amiga #C64 #PDP #Wyse #Terminal #16550AF #Serial #Console #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #dmesg #POST #programming

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I'm going on a trip down memory lane, installing the console mode clients that I've been using many decades ago, which for some reason disappeared from the Linux distributions.

freeBSD does not remove tools which are functional and do not hamper or hinder the (basel installation.

Thus I was able to install Elm and also ncftp. It is such a joy to see Elm again a straight no frills powerful email client which runs in your console

#POSIX #dmesg #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #dmesg #POST #programming

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As you can see I'm playing again with ghostBSD. Don't worry this time I didn't wipe out the smooth running freeBSD test installation that I already have.

I went hunting for disk space and found a nice two and a half inch SATA HDD where I could spare some 20 gigs of space for ghostBSD

I again got that interesting quirk where after the installation I simply rebooted the machine and the boot manager told me that it could not find the kernel while the hard drive has not been moved anywhere in the sata tray

That's the reason why I'm running the ghost 👻 BSD installation again after wiping the previous installation

#POSIX #dmesg #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #dmesg #POST #programming

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The image shows a mobile phone screen displaying a web page titled "The rEFInd Boot Manager" by Roderick W. Smith. The page is black with white and blue text. The author's email, "rodsmith[@]rodsbooks.com," is highlighted in blue. Below the title, the page indicates it was originally written on March 14, 2012, and last updated on April 6, 2024, referencing rEFInd 0.14.2. The text explains that the web page is provided free of charge with no annoying outside ads, but the author mentions that web hosting costs money. It encourages users to consider making a small donation to help keep the site up and running. There are four donation buttons with amounts: $1.00, $2.50, $5.00, and $10.00, all in yellow with blue text. The URL at the bottom of the screen is "rodsbooks.com/refin." The status bar at the top shows the time as 05:19, Wi-Fi signal, full battery at 69%, and other icons.

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More resources on Source Forge

sourceforge.net/projects/refin…

#TIL #POSIX #dmesg #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #dmesg #POST #GRUB #Lilo #programming

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Because of the rEFInd discovery, I can now play 🎴 some music on a dedicated music & video streaming machine as told here
mastodon.social/@RadioAzureus/…
Simultaneously run awesome truck 🚛 simulations as shown in the photograph here, watch a fantastic video on another dedicated machine and juggle all needed operating systems smoothly thanks to rEFInd

#rEFInd #now #playing #streaming #TIL #POSIX #dmesg #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #Linux #dmesg #POST #GRUB #Lilo #programming

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