In the world of free operating systems, GNU/Linux is the best known and most used, but there are also other operating systems that are very robust, very stable and have excellent performance, such as the BSD family, within the BSD family there are 3 well-known operating systems: FreeBSD, OpenBSD y NetBSD.
NetBSD is a UNIX-like operating system with a focus on security, simplicity, elegance and clean source code, it is highly portable and robust.
MariaDB is a RDBMS created from MySQL 5.1 source code by the original MySQL developers and designed as a direct and improved MySQL replacement. MariaDB is fast, scalable, and robust, with a rich ecosystem of storage engines, plugins, and other tools that make it versatile and flexible in different scenarios.
NGINX is a web server with excellent performance and low memory footprint. NGINX can also be used as a reverse proxy (FastCGI, Apache, uWSGI), as a proxy for mail protocols (IMAP, POP3) and as a load balancer.
In this post we will install NGINX as a FastCGI proxy then the PHP requests will be redirected to a PHP-FPM server.
PHP 8.0 added new modern features such us: Union Types,Named arguments, Match expressions, Just In Time Compilation and others
Today we are going to install PHP 8.0 on NetBSD 9.1.
cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems, cron is used to schedule jobs at fixed times, dates, or intervals; cron runs every minute and detects if there is a new command or task (reading the files /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.d/* and /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*) to run.
If we want to “wake up” the computer at a certain moment, we can use the rtcwake command. rtcwake hibernates or suspends the system and to automatically wake from it at a specified time
mod_rewrite is a powerful and sophisticated Apache web server module that allows urls to be rewritten using regular expressions. To redirect the urls to the corresponding url with www in front.
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight text editor that has a modular architecture which allows to extend the basic functionality by selecting a set of plugins. It’s developed under GPL v2 license. Geany requires few space on hard disk, has few dependencies (not depends on KDE or GNOME libs)
NTFS-3G is a stable, full-featured, read-write NTFS driver for Linux, Android, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems.
Rsync is a fast and versatile file synchronization tool that allows to copy and sync files locally and from rsync service or any device that supports remote shell (Rsync does not support synchronization between remote devices). Rsync offers a large number of options that control every aspect of its behaviour and permit very flexible specification of the set of files to be copied.
