Tag Archives: freebsd

Feedjack got a new home

Things have been moving in the Feedjack front. There are new planets using it, like Debian PerĂº, Planet SCM and Planet Python@TW, but also apps that use use feedjack on the background like Ian Holman’s Economy Chat and VC Chat.
Also in the news: Feedjack just went into the FreeBSD ports, and I hope to see [...]

Enjoying ubuntu: Desktop migration from FreeBSD

Months after I discovered FreeBSD’s excellent performance, and because my debian unstable desktop became, well, unstable, I decided to give FreeBSD as a desktop a try.
My desktop needs are pretty basic, I just need:

GNOME: Originally I migrated from fluxbox to Gnome to “try linux as a real final user”, now I just can’t live without [...]

Lighttpd and FastCGI: Migration from Apache

The Apache HTTP server is by far the most used web server in the world. It is an excellent, feature packed and standards compliant web server. Extremely configurable, with an endless amount of modules, superb documentation and, due to its license, is being used commercially by companies like Oracle. There is only a small problem [...]

Debian Security and some comparisons

Debian is having serious problems with its core security infraestructure. The main issue being that there is just one (overworked) Martin “Joey” Schulze in charge of the security updates, and the rest of the security team is, well, busy. It is even said that one of the security team members is working in Ubuntu, which [...]

Free Software in Corporate Environments

There has been some adoption of free software lately at my current job. I’m not talking about the servers running apache, postgresql, samba, postfix, squid, etc. I’m talking about free software in everybody’s computer. Note that everybody (but me) is still using Windows, but hopefully once they all use free software a migration to Linux [...]