And, again, I hit something which is causing massive disk performance
issues. That, and suspend/resume does not work on either laptop.
I would try to debug the issues, but that means learning a whole new set
of tools, and I will not have time for a while. Next week, I am in week
long meetings which will run late every day, and then I have to finish
writing and present a training class the last week of the month. The
hour or two I can spare will be far better spent for me by backup,
re-installing ArchLinux than by starting to
learn the tools. Yes, a bit of a cop-out, but I need the machines to do
what I need to do. I will keep the servers FreeBSD, however, as it works
great there.
I will revisit the issue of FreeBSD on the laptops when I either get new
kit, or support for my models gets better.
As the month draws to a close, I am further into the switch. I have
rebuilt my main laptop to PCBSD. I am still
setting a few things up, but it seems to be going well.
Two things I need to fix:
Skype: While there is not a native client, there are lots of
folks who report success with the Linux client. I will need to do
some research.
Nikola: The software I use for my blogs. It throws a python
error when I run it, so I cannot update things. Again, I think I
just need to do some more research.
Today is day 14 (pushing day 15 at this hour), and things are looking very good. Today, I got word from the PCBSD Project that a patch which I submitted to fix the issue with the WiFi NIC. Well, I got notice today that PCBSD Bug #7330 has been resolved, and I tested on the R810. It works!
Now, I just need to get a few things configured here first, like snapshots, backups, and porting my SDCARD reading scripts over to FreeBSD, and I should be good.
Then, fun things like configure & use IPv6. I have two FreeBSD VSP servers to test with…it will be fun!