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Raphael Ahrens
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I'm an open source enthusiast since the day my Windows machine had a total crash in 2008. The crash was caused by a driver problem of the motherboard. Back then I had some Linux experience from my education, so I switch completely to Ubuntu.

The more I worked with Ubuntu I started to tweak it to my liking and in the end I had my personal minimalistic setup with

  • a personal Desktop based on Openbox, SLiM and tint2.
  • ZSH as my interactive shell
  • and vim as my standard editor

With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 I switched my desktop to FreeBSD 8.1 and was surprised to see, that it was much easier to get my personal setup running on FreeBSD than on Ubuntu.

So since 2010 I'm a happy user of FreeBSD.

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How to go to the previous working directory in terminal?
Jun 30, 2013
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Why is root login via SSH so bad that everyone advises to disable it?
Jul 11, 2013
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Poweroff or Reboot as normal User
Aug 6, 2013
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In which cases is SIGHUP not sent to a job when you log out?
Aug 2, 2013
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Mac OS X: dircolors not found?
Sep 23, 2013
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Having multi lines in bash command substitution
Jul 8, 2013
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How do I install the latest gcc on FreeBSD?
May 16, 2014
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How can I create my own spelling file for vim?
Aug 5, 2013
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Why does no one use the true Bourne shell as /bin/sh?
Nov 5, 2013
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How does FreeBSD allocate memory?
Oct 9, 2015
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How to make a program that finds id's of xinput devices and sets xinput some settings
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Python - test a property throws exception
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How to check the version of the python API at compile time from a C extension module?
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How do I store Diffie-Hellman parameters in a X.509 certificate?
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