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Why Handy resources Talks Factoids Things that feel different Software management and ports Ports patching init system coreutils Scheduling Block devices My setup NFS xorg dwm st powerd++ ntp fonts Why Mostly curiosity. I’ve been a GNU/Linux and free software enthuiatist since the late 90’s and that’s not about to change. More concrete reasons: GNU/Linux won the war. However… The Berkeley Software Distributions are family of open UNIX-like operating systems with lineage back to AT&T UNIX They come as complete and cohesive systems, not a distribution of disparate pieces The BSD license is wonderfully permissive Bill Joy (the father of Sun, BSD, vi, RISC) Marshall Kirk McKusick ZFS, DTrace and Clang It feels so damn neat, tidy and robust It wont be my daily driver, however it’s nice to be aware of what {Free,Open,Net}BSD each bring to the table Handy resources FreeBSD Handbook FreeBSD Porters Handbook FreeBSD Wiki Freshports the place for ports and most recent commits bsd-hardware.info papers.freebsd.org the collected works of the FreeBSD community as presented at various conferences and summits Talks Using boot environments at scale - by Allan Jude The ZFS Filesystem workshop - by Philip Paeps Factoids The term daemon comes from Greek mythology and represents an entity that is neither good nor evil, and which invisibly performs useful tasks. This is why the BSD mascot is the cheerful-looking daemon with sneakers and a pitchfork. Things that feel different My Linux biases are deep rooted. It’s so fascinating to learn how the BSD’s have gone about things differently. ...

Contents Install base Tex system Pandoc Author paper Create bibliography (BibTeX) Render the paper as PDF Use Git Resources LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; features are designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. It’s the de-facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents, and available as free software. LaTeX is actually built on the TeX typesetting system created by the legendary Donald Knuth. LaTeX is nothing more than a series of TeX macros, providing ready made commands for common formatting and layout needs, such as section headings, footnotes, bibliographies and cross references. ...

Update: 2022-04-26: Overhauling to be simplier and bsd/clang friendly. Rules of engagement Style The language Basic Types Integer Types Real and Complex Floating Types void Memory Access Operators Strings The Pre Processor Macros Patterns vtables person_s.h print_vtable.h print_vtable.c main.c Libraries C standard library C POSIX library Unit Testing Sample C code Rules of engagement How I program C by Eskil Steenberg Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike The Ten Commandments for C Programmers by Henry Spencer Style suckless FreeBSD man 9 style The language Basic Types Integer Types C99 with stdbool.h introduced boolean type _Bool (1 byte), and macros true (1) and false (0). ...