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!
It is the 10th day of the month, and I am 10 days in trying to use
FreeBSD as my daily non-work driver. How is it going?
Well, for the most part, well. I can spend most of my personal work-flow
on the FreeBSD laptop with no issues. There are a couple of things I
have not moved over yet, and those relate to my photo work-flow. The
main application, AfterShotPro is installed
and working (see
[my previous desciption <freebsd-challenge-day-4-6>]{role=“doc”} of
installing in), however, I have not moved over the scripts I use in the
flow. I believe they will just come over, but I have not had a chance to
test them.
I was using Chromium, but any Flash site did not
work. I need to revisit this at some point, but for now I went back to
Firefox, and it is working create.
The only major thing right now I need to figure out is how FreeBSD deals
with sound. I can hear things from the speakers just fine, but I need to
figure out how to enable and use an USB headset. Not the biggest, but
still. I also need to either install & configure Skype, or find a
replacement video chat to use with the wife while traveling that works
under FreeBSD. I like the second option better, but I have not really
had the time to do the research.
And, the new site generating suite I am using works under FreeBSD. I
wrote and posted this from the FreeBSD laptop.
As 2014 draws to a close, I look back at the year.
Overall, it was a good year. The family staid reasonably health (just a
case of the flu which every one of us caught).
Work slowed down a bit after only three trips, and the last one was in
June, but I did get to spend two weeks in London which was cool. While
the work has been not what I really want to be doing, it has been
interesting, and next year promises to be very interesting. I have no
clue if travel is in the cards or not, but I will keep the camera handy.
In the coming year, I plan to focus on health, photography, and
technology. I want to get back to taking photos every day, and to bring
the quality back up to art level over the snapshots and historical
documentation that I have been doing.
Also, I want to revisit the 30 Day FreeBSD challenge again in January. I
have the old HP R810 running PCBSD 10.1 already
set up that I have been using for a couple of days working the kinks out
of it, so I think I can do it this time. Normal caveat applies...I have
a work laptop which dual boots Windows 8.1 and Fedora 21 for my work
stuff. The home stuff should work nicely on the laptop.
Just to prove things, this post was written under FreeBSD.
I also need to fix up my virtual host farm. I have one too many, and do
not need it, but of course, it is the one with the main mail and other
services, so I need to hurry up and migrate things off of it.