About seven years ago, I wrote my first article for Dæmon News about my experiences of installing FreeBSD on a Compaq iPaq desktop which would become my web and mail server for about six years.
About a month ago, I purchased a pre-owned HP dc7700 Small Form Factor desktop with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 1.86GHz, 2GB of RAM and came with an 80GB SATA-II hard drive. I decided to purchase a new hard drive, a Seagate Barracuda ES 250GB SATA-II hard drive and keep the 80GB drive untouched. Since the system had quite a bit of processing power and resources, I decided to not only replace my aging web and mail server, but also to consolidate internal network services on to the new system.
Starting in mid-2000, I became involved in the BSD Dæmon News community and started to post BSD-related news items and worked my way up to writing articles based on my experience with BSD. That later grew into a series of BSD and networking related articles and several book reviews.
After the summer of 2003, I started getting writer's block and later withdrew myself from being an active writer. Instead, I was given the opportunity to proofread and review working drafts of "The Complete FreeBSD, Fourth Edition" by Greg Lehey.
Since then, I have found other ways to contribute to the BSD community by maintaining several FreeBSD ports and submitting bug reports here and there.
Below are the articles that I have written for Dæmon News available in a recently cleaned up versions, as well as links to the published versions.
- August 2000
- March 2001
- May 2001
- September 2001
- October 2001
- January 2002
- March 2002
- June 2002
- July 2002
- October 2002
- December 2002 (submitted for Dæmon News Print Magazine)
- January 2003
- March 2003
- June 2003
- August 2003
