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-<p><a href="/" alt="avatar" title="home page"><img src="sehnsucht.jpeg" class="w3"></a></p>
-
-# Sehnsucht runs BSD
-
-I'm 24-years-old Italian Medicine student and apprentice (6th year
-at Sapienza University of Rome), free-time Unix and retro-computing/gaming
-passionate. My other interests include philosophy, rock and classical
-music, inline-hockey/skating, skiing, mountain biking, black & white
-movies and seinen manga.
-
-I've been a computer geek practically since I have memory. Living
-in the country-side and lacking easy means of transport I was often
-held back from playing with other kids and this resulted in me
-spending a significant portion of my time playing 15/18+ games
-(Doom, UT, Shadow Warrior, Daggerfall, Max Payne) and hacking around
-on computers. I recently came to the conclusion that most people
-of my age first came in contact with computer software either through
-Windows XP or OS X Leopard; this results in them not being comfortable
-with command line and expecting the computer to automatically do
-things for them. That's neither bad or unfortunate, it's just a
-matter of fact. Yet, my story went a little bit different, and I
-think it gave me the chance to learn a lot while having tons of
-fun.
-
-My family got its first PC in '98, second-handed and practically
-for free, thanks to my uncle performing a hardware upgrade towards
-P6 Pentium and letting us take his 1993 IBM PS/1 (486SX, 6MB RAM,
-512MB IDE HDD, currently sold for parts), which used to come with
-PC-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1. My uncle taught me the basic commands
-to type in order to launch games. As a 5 years old and curious kid,
-whose favourite toy up to that moment had been a fake laptop, I
-immediately fell in love with it. With the passing of time I started
-wanting to know more about DOS, try new commands and quickly became
-the first tech-aware person in my family (my parents both still
-have great limitations in using Windows or Android nowadays), albeit
-I managed to mess the system up several times, in spite of all the
-core files having `ATTRIB` set to `+RSH`. By the turning of
-Millennium, with the spread of PCs, Internet, Windows and MS Office
-in offices and schools, we needed a machine capable of running
-modern 32-bit Office and IE versions. In Jan '01, my mother told
-a programmer friend of her to build us a brand new machine, which
-turned out being a fabulous PC, equipped with a Netburst Pentium
-IV, 256 MB RAM, running Windows ME on a FAT32-formatted 60G storage
-(currently running Illumos, Tribblix 0m20.4 x86 on UFS), with a
-remote-band dial-up 27 kbit/s connection, which can be easily
-accounted as my favourite PC of all times.
-
-Every Sunday morning at the newsstand, I used to buy a magazine
-named "Games for My Computer" which usually came bounded with great
-game titles, mods, patches, reviews, demos, shareware, up to date
-DirectX, at the modicum cost of 3-5 euros. As the years passed by,
-I started buying other software-related magazines, until my attention
-was caught by an article speaking of the proprietary UNIX system
-history and its derivatives. It intrigued me so much, that I spent
-the following days doing researches on this fantastic OS, and the
-other CPU archs than x86/IA-64 it ran on, all of which I had been
-completely unaware of until that moment.
-
-I wanted to learn use it, and Solaris was the one which looked most
-promising and interesting to me at first sight, although running
-it was _obviously_ completely out of question, being it a
-server/workstation oriented OS meant for professional usage, running
-on way too expensive hardware, in a time when all I needed was a
-simple notebook for high school supporting an office suite and few
-more programs. I had already made up my mind to either buy a MacBook
-or get a Mandriva CD and Linux-supported laptop, when I discovered
-about the pending release of OpenSolaris: open source Solaris with
-focus on desktop including the latest GNOME, Firefox, Adobe Flash
-Player and OpenOffice versions: "that's it", I thought, and few
-months later I had my parents order a Toshiba Tecra M10 based on
-Centrino 2 platform (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM DDR2, Intel
-Wireless, currently running OpenIndiana 2018.04) coming with
-OpenSolaris 2008.05 pre-installed. Everything worked out of the
-box, exactly as I expected, even better and I began appreciating
-the value of FOSS.
-
-I spent a lot of time playing with it, especially on customizing
-GNOME2 (it was so good! still using MATE now) and attending DeviantArt,
-in accordance with my previous experience with Windows XP customization.
-I remember the eye-candy OpenSolaris screenshot on DeviantArt by
-Vermaden. I learned about general Unix command line, started shell
-scripting, and decided to pick up some Java programming basics
-(OpenSolaris included NetBeans) as a self-taught.
-
-After the Sun acquisition by Oracle and the following OpenSolaris
-withdrawal, I kept using it as long as it was worthwhile (c. 2011).
-Later on, after having briefly considered the possibility of
-OpenIndiana, I decided I wanted to try something new, with a wider
-software availability. Providing I wanted to see how Windows was
-faring too, I ended up switching back to Windows and installed 7.
-During the last 3 high school years in fact, my interest towards
-software as leisure-activity was progressively eclipsed by other
-things, mainly friends, girls, books, the hockey championship.
-Choosing what to do of my life turned out quite the hard task: I
-loved many things, especially physics, biology, Latin and Greek,
-computer science and philosophy. But I knew myself all too well, I
-knew where my path was headed, I wanted to help people, and realized
-my choice had been taken already.
-
-At University, I slowly began missing all that geeky stuff and
-started thinking about installing a Unix OS and dedicate part of
-my spare time to it once again. I remembered reading about the BSD
-OS family and downloaded [FreeBSD] 9.3 in late 2013, putting it on
-the Toshiba first (on UFS2), and later on on a 2011 Samsung NP-R519
-(even this one, fully supported) laptop, which my father gave me
-after having totally messed it up and giving up with it, even though
-he told me he had been forced to buy more powerful hardware for his
-job (the program he needed didn't require more than 300 MB RAM).
-I loved FreeBSD and its Handbook from the very first time. Well-designed
-OS, stable, and consistent, very featured userland especially in
-regard of networking tools, amazingly performing. The community
-(and the BSD community in general) is very friendly, competent,
-professional, but also prone to joke and have some fun from time
-to time. FreeBSD increased my interest towards netsec, firewalls
-and servers, until I ended up building a cheap FreeBSD box serving
-as a FTPS NAS first, and jailed NextCloud on AMP stack next, behind
-a IPFW firewall. This was mainly for learning/fun purposes. In the
-meantime, I've also experienced setting up a media server (Plex,
-Icecast + MPD-httpd, and LAN UPnP with minidlad + Kodi client).
-Thanks to this, I learned a lot about networking and security, and
-FreeBSD tools and documentation surely made that job smoother.
-Lately I've also found the time to try bhyve and I must admit
-developers did an amazing job improving it in the last few years.
-It's become a serious, neat and performing hypervisor to the point
-I think it's significantly underrated (Joyent wouldn't have ported
-it to Illumos otherwise, already having KVM!). Around a year ago
-my savings reached a dignitous-enough amount to allow me to buy and
-build a custom desktop PC (not calling it workstation, cause that's
-not the case). It currently runs FreeBSD 11.2 on ZFS with a FVWM
-desktop, residing inside the rented flat I share with a colleague
-in Rome, I also use it as a MPD music station with a SNDIO backend
-(+a couple of good speakers), as host for bhyve and VBox VMs (the
-OpenSuSE VM is dedicated to Netflix and Spotify), native FOSS and
-Wine gaming: I discovered that many games I used to play in the
-early '00s actually work very well under wine, so I'm having great
-fun on it; also, here I want to thank the #openbsd-gaming community,
-and Pertho in particular, for hosting the Quake Tournaments.
-
-Meanwhile, I got bored again and decided to try other OSs. I tried
-Linux, Illumos, the other BSDs, and FreeDOS.
-
-Be it PC-DOS nostalgia, but I became immediately committed to the
-FreeDOS community and development, participated to mailing lists,
-deployed FreeDOS retro-gaming stations for friends, while starting
-over playing a lot of 16-bit games, wrote tutorials, went back using
-Corel Word Perfect 6.22 as my writing suite, started learning C on
-it, analyzing FreeDOS internals through Pat Villani's FreeDOS kernel
-book, reported bugs on new OpenGEM desktop release, and even committed
-some patches. Currently I run FreeDOS on my mother's old Acer
-TravelMate (from 2000).
-
-Trying Illumos instead brought my old Solaris love back to life and
-even enhanced it. SMF, RBAC, CrossBow, Zones, SunStudio and the
-fantastic Solaris userland are still there kicking. OpenIndiana is
-the spiritual continuation of OpenSolaris anthe most true to it. I
-run OI-Hipster on my Samsung laptop with a fluxbox desktop. In the
-future I'd like to actively contribute to the IPS OpenCSW community
-repo. Tribblix is a very well-thought piece of software. The fact
-it's only maintained by a single person (who's actually also quite
-keen to help users) really puzzles me: clean, lightweight Illumos
-distribution, still supporting SPARC and x86, with a fantastic
-packaging system (zap overlays) and up to date software, what else
-could I ask? It brought my old Pentium IV PC back to life, showing
-off some true old school taste with the latest CDE 2.3.0 release.
-My plans for (a rather distant, due to lack of time and money)
-future include buying a Sun Blade 1000 and building a v9OS (Illumos
-distro) SPARC box.
-
-The BSDs are all terribly alluring. It's incredible how different
-they can be from one another (well, that's what happens after 25
-years of divergent development with different goals in mind), and
-how each one is perfect in its own way and still carries great
-advantages over the others. From my perspective, there's no clear
-winner among BSDs: they all do exactly what they're thought for in
-a (almost) shameless way.
-
-Personally speaking, given my tastes, and priorities, I came to the
-conclusion that the only BSD I like (slightly) more than FreeBSD,
-is [NetBSD]. NetBSD is fun to use. I find it difficult to explain,
-but it's a really enjoyable OS. It has those uncommon yet effective
-design choices which make you stop and say: "hey, that's brilliant!".
-NetBSD stands firm on its roots and is still very Unixist, actually
-in my opinion the most consistent with 386BSD. NetBSD is extremely
-simple, neat, lightweight, versatile, and portable. Performs
-wonderfully on limited specs, old hardware, older archs and especially
-embedded hardware. ARM SoCs support is astonishing, and it's improving
-fast, especially on aarch64. Xen dom0, pkgsrc, NPF, Rump Kernels,
-KASLR, nouveau, LVM, the almost ready ZFS, are other great features.
-
-Currently I run NetBSD on the old Toshiba, on my Rpi3 and on Pinebook
-(both through aarch64 port). The Rpi3 works as NPF firewall, while
-I use the Pinebook as IceWM desktop. I've successfully carried out
-some nerd experiments on NetBSD, like running 4 Xen domU VMs at the
-same time, building and running NeverWinter Nights Linux client
-under the SuSE compat layer, setting up my mother's private office
-router as a NetBSD box, building a NetBSD/HEAD Cinnamon desktop
-using pkgswc-wip, deploying my personal Mail Server (OpenSMTPd,
-Dovecot, Rspamd, dkimproxy, SquirreMail, NPF, Squid, Clamav):
-eventually dismantled it due to time and money required to maintain
-it and compared to advantages. Fastmail user now! I've seen many
-people using NetBSD as learning platform: indeed I continue learning
-C on it.
-
-In the last year I've been into *BSD and Illumos advocacy a lot on
-social media. Those OSs are often undeservedly ignored and should
-get more attention as examples of Unix done the right way. Wish I
-could also help user Trihexagonal with his [tutorials on FreeBSD
-desktop](http://trihexagonal.org). For the moment, I'm just
-contributing with screenshots. I think so far I managed to bring
-to BSD no more than a couple of pen friends known on *nix fora, one
-to OpenBSD and OI-Hipster, the other to NetBSD. An Italian friend
-of mine (IT graduate) decided to put FreeBSD on Chromebook, after
-hearing me talking about it. My interest towards FreeBSD, led me
-to make new precious acquaintances, especially Scott Robbins
-(scottro), veteran admin and fantastic person, with whom I keep
-corresponding by mail.
-
-In contrast with some Linux users spawning Arch Linux installs on
-their relatives/friends/partners laptops, I'm of the opinion people
-mustn't be forced, neither allured or convinced with false promises.
-People need to be shown, providing they have the time and the will
-to hear, make up their minds by their own-selves, and only then see
-whether the red pill is suited for them or not. This more or less
-applies to every single field of knowledge, not solely operating
-systems: for instance, it applies to Medicine too.
-
-Find me on FreeBSD Forums and DaemonForums (@Sehnsucht94), as well
-as [Mastodon](https://bsd.network/@sehnsucht) and
-[Twitter](https://twitter.com/Vins_Quotes).
-
-_[21 Aug 2018](/raw/people/sehnsucht.md)_
-
-[FreeBSD]: https://www.freebsd.org/
-[NetBSD]: https://www.netbsd.org/
