*nix / unix like operating system  

Over the years I've written a number of informative articles breaking down aspects of Unix like operating systems; mainly FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Slackware Linux.

These days I mainly use MacOS as my personal workspace and have shifted to Fedora Linux which hosts the service you are currently on, though with the version rapidly slipping out of official support I will be updating over the next few months. So stay tuned for some new articles cataloguing my experiences.

Keeping with the historical theme; below are some screenshots circa the early 2000's:



In no real order, below are the current articles I have migrated from the archives.

 

The latest five  

Current article count: 2
 
Dual booting Slackware Linux and Windows XP
Posted: 1 August 2002 at 7:00 pm by Davey

Ever thought about setting up a dual boot Linux / Windows system? does the thought of crossing over to an ever growing operating system scare you, but your sick of blue screens and constant unstability? Here is the chance to keep Windows* on your computer and learn Linux at the same time, so that if...

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Building X on OpenBSD
Posted: 10 February 2003 at 1:35 pm by Davey

I recently installed OpenBSD on a spare box at home, hoping to have a play with it and a possible migration to it from FreeBSD (which I have been using now for about 2 years)

I found FreeBSD quite easy to install and have never really had any problems with the install and configuring XFree86 on i...

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