Let's Try BSD, Part 7 of 7: Conclusions About FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD
Here's a summary of my experiments with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD.
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Let's Try BSD, Part 6 of 7: Jump Into the Unknown With Me As I Install DragonFlyBSD!
DragonFlyBSD was a bit frustrating for me.
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Bored of the MIT and GPL Licenses? Switch From That Lame Old Legalese to One of These 10 Awesome Licenses!
The GNU GPL, BSD license, MIT...those are so last century. Today we have many other cool licenses to use and you should definitely switch all your code to one of these.
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Let's Try BSD, Part 5 of 7: Setting Up Nginx + Wordpress on OpenBSD! Almost!
Now it's time to look at OpenBSD, the security-focused BSD. We have quite a time getting things going and learn a lot along the way.
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Let's Try BSD, Part 4 of 7: NetBSD, the BSD That Runs on Your Grandfather's Pocket Watch
Last time we looked at FreeBSD. Now we're onto NetBSD. It wasn't a pleasant experience.
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The Time a Hard Drive Manufacturer Shipped Actual Bricks Instead of Drives. Bricks as in Masonry, Folks.
Miniscribe, a hard drive maker who flourished in the 1980s, once ran into serious inventory problems. And since a masonry brick is about the same size and weight of a hard drive from that era...
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Let's Try BSD, Part 3 of 7: FreeBSD, the Power to Serve
We're continuing our journey through the BSD universe and today we're trying out FreeBSD. Does it have "The Power to Serve"?
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Let's Try BSD, Part 2 of 7: How I Setup for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD
Here the Vultr VM I'm using for these BSD tryouts.
Read MoreLet's Try BSD, Part 1 of 7: Introduction (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD)
In this series, I'll be trying out each of the four major BSD operating systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD), including install, configuration, and web serving. We're paying a visit to the weird cousins from the other continent, and we'll have some fun exploring the OTHER free operating systems.
Read MoreShirley: My Quest to Create a Truly Useful AI Personal Assistant (Self-Hosted ChatGPT + Long Term Memory + RAG)
I'm on a quest to create the perfect AI-powered personal assistant. We're closer than I thought, but still have a ways to go.
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Apple Intelligence is Free: You Are Not the Product, You're the Currency
OpenAI is thrilled to get a new trove of Apple data to train on. Except of course, they promise, cross their hearts and hope to die, stick a needle in their eye that this won't happen.
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LowEndBox Album Drop: "Shawty Got LowEnd" Released!
LowEndBox's first album, "Shawty Got LowEnd" has been released! Likes to all 22 tracks with lyrics and insider notes!
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Google's Hamina Datacenter is Captain Planet's Fetish and is Growing Massively
Google's Hamina, Finland datacenter is a pioneering green datacenter, leveraging the chilly Gulf of Finland waters to keep it cool without climate-intensive chillers. Let's take a quick look at this datacenter now that Google has announced that they're making a substantial new investment into this former paper mill.
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The Best Read of the Year: Situational Awareness
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former safety researcher at ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has published a stunning series of articles forecasting Artificial Generalized Intelligence (AGI) - followed very shortly by Arficial Generalized Superintelligence (ASI) by 2027.
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So What do I Run On? Raindog308's LowEnd Empire and Preferred LowEnd Provider List
I like to host with the best, and my LowEnd empire is a star-studded cavalcade of great LowEnd providers. Who are you hosting with these days?
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What's On Tap For June Here at LowEndBox? A Walk on the Wild Side
Later this month we're doing a 7-part series on BSD. Here's a quick preview.
Read MoreLet's Catch You Up on the M&A Drama in the LowEnd Community
Both Hostaris and IKIHOST were acquired in the last few days as M&A fever sweeps through the LowEnd community.
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OpenAI Asks Sam Altman to Lie to Them About Safety and He Will Happily Oblige
The OpenAI board has asked a fox to guard their henhouse. What could go wrong?
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More Bits, More Atoms: How Datacenters Are Driving Nuclear Demand
Datacenters are power hungry and the only solution to keeping them powered may be nuclear. The Small Modular Reactor trend is growing.
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SHOTS FIRED: MailChannels vs MailBaby War Erupts on LowEndTalk
"Have you noticed MailBaby's service quality declining recently? That's because they stopped using MailChannels to send emails their own platform couldn't handle." And so it began.
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The Scarlett Johansson Debacle: Why Sam Altman Fumbled This So Badly
We've all read about how that ChatGPT voice sounds "uncannily" like ScarJo. That isn't an accident, and OpenAI has inflamed the artistic community by continuing to focus on the shiny instead of the safe.
Read MoreUnveiling a 256-Core Arm Processor for Data Centers!
Want a 256-core Arm processor in your server? How much would you pay? $7/month?
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Is This Video Legit: The Operator of Doxbin Being Held for Ransom and Tortured?
The proprietor of Doxbin has been kidnapped. Or maybe not.
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The Inevitable AI Bubble: Industry Pundits' Opinions
Of course there's an AI bubble coming. How could there not be? Industry pundits sound off.
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VMware Workstation and Fusion Pro Are Now Free. Good Luck Actually Downloading Them
Broadcom has blown chaos all over the VMware landscape with their acquisition but they're releasing desktop products for free. They just make it very difficult to download them.
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Are PayPal Chargebacks Weapons of Mass Involucration? What Does a Chargeback Do to a Provider?
Unhappy with service? Just hit that chargeback, right? Hold your horses.
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Microsoft Bought 10 Nuclear Power Plants' Worth of Energy
Microsoft Corp. and Brookfield Asset Management’s green energy arm signed the biggest corporate clean-energy purchase agreement ever announced, as the technology giant ramps up its investment in artif...
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HyperExpert Deadpools and It Might Be My Fault
Farewell, HyperExpert. I was a customer since 2020.
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