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| author | Tyler Davis <tyler@gluecode.net> | 2025-03-01 04:06:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Tyler Davis <tyler@gluecode.net> | 2025-03-01 04:06:25 +0000 |
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diff --git a/posts/2025/freebsd.md b/posts/2025/freebsd.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d773cd --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2025/freebsd.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Switching to FreeBSD 14.2 + +_Published 2025-02-26_ + +Brief update from [previous][1]: the website is now being hosted on +FreeBSD 14.2 (RELEASE) and Nginx (1.26+), instead of NetBSD 10.1 and +Caddy (v2.9.1). Here's [the dmesg][2] + +Why make such a change? I finally got to test the network and hardware +performance of my system against a worth opponent (thanks, Ben) and +found the server lacking. FreeBSD has received a lot of Netflix +contributions to directly improve x86_64 performance, so, it stands to +reason that FreeBSD will do better and be a bit more consistent. + +Don't get me wrong, I love NetBSD and found it very clean, simple, and +fully understandable, but I went off the deep end with packages and had +too many ongoing performance quirks to *not* spend the time upgrading +and fixing it. + +[1]:2024/tech-updates.html +[2]:https://gluecode.net/backups/freebsd-T7810-dmesg.txt |