<p>My adventures with Manjaro Linux continue and I’ve even moved my “craptop” - a somewhat ancient Lenovo X240 that I use as a semi-disposable travel laptop - from XUbuntu to Manjaro Linux. But that’s a subject for another blog post. Today, I wanted to write about package download performance issues I started encountering on my desktop recently and how I managed to fix them.</p>

<p>Turns out it’s not only <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2013/06/16/windows-8-has-the-telnet-client-turned-off-by-default/">Windows 8 that has its telnet client disabled</a>, Windows 10 is in the same boat. I’ve been using Windows 10 for quite a while now and just discovered this issue. Anyway, the way to enable is as follows:</p>

<p>I’ve been a Xubuntu user for years after switching from OpenSuse. I liked its simplicity and the fact that it just worked out of the box, but I was getting more and more disappointed with Ubuntu packages being out of date, sorry, stable. Having to rebuild a bunch of packages on every install was getting a little old. Well, they did provide material for all those “build XXX on Ubuntu” posts. Recently I’ve been playing with <a href="https://manjaro.org/">Manjaro…

<p>This blog is self-hosted, together with some other services on a FreeBSD virtual server over at <a href="https://www.rootbsd.net/">RootBSD</a>. Yes, I’m one of those weirdos who hosts their own servers - even if they’re virtual - instead of just using free or buying services.</p>

<p>I’ve moved from using <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/">Apache</a> as a web server to <a href="http://nginx.org/en/">nginx</a> for various projects. The machines I’m running these projects on are a somewhat resource constrained and nginx deals with low resource machines much better than Apache does and tends to serve content faster in those circumstances. For example switching the machine that hosts this WordPress blog from Apache and mod_php to nginx with php-fpm improved the…

<p>Yes, I know <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> and <a href="http://xubuntu.org/">Xubuntu</a> already come with Chromium in their official package repositories, but sometimes it does help to have the official/commercial version installed in addition to the Open Source one. I actually both installed right now, plus Firefox and <a href="https://vivaldi.com/">Vivaldi</a>. You could almost think I’m some sort of web developer or something.</p>

<p>In a <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2014/03/12/improving-the-performance-of-git-for-windows/" title="Improving the performance of Git for Windows">previous blog post</a> I explained how you can substantially improve the performance of git on Windows updating the underlying SSH implementation. This performance improvement is very worthwhile in a standard Unix-style git setup where access to the git repository is done using ssh as the transport layer. For a regular development…

<p>If you haven’t heard about the bash “shellshock” bug yet, it may be time to peek out from underneath the rock you’ve been under ;). While bash isn’t installed as standard on FreeBSD, there’s a very good chance that someone either installed it because it’s their preferred shell or because one of the ports lists it as a dependency. Either way, now would be a really good time to check if your machine has bash installed if you haven’t done so…

<p>For security reasons, apparently. I can see that making sense with the telnet server but the client? It’s an invaluable network debugging tool, after all, especially in heterogeneous networks.</p>

<p>Long title, I know…</p>