FreeBSD Install Notes

Some notes on what I do when I install FreeBSD on my main desktop machine. Will likely never be fully complete.

Using a memory disk to reduce hard drive wear and tear while building ports

I carved out some of my computer's RAM to use to build ports and save some write cycles on my SSDs.

BSD-Hardware dot info

I used a small program to tell the FreeBSD team what kind of hardware I installed it on.

Setting up musicpd, musicpc, and ncmpcpp

Setting up the standard alphabet soup of console-based media players.

Using sshfs, mpd, ncmpcpp, and VirtualBox to listen to crap I want when I'm not home

I didn't stop with mpd, mpc, and ncmpcpp. I also used sshfs to access my music remotely when I should probably be working

Sound Blaster Z

My motherboard's onboard sound is buggy, so I try a discrete sound card for the first time in... a while.

Fixing FireFox 116.0.2,2 Sound on FreeBSD

I ugraded FireFox and then it couldn't play sound. This is how I fixed it.