guides.freberg.guru — a field manual for GNU/Linux

The slow, steady release. Notes on apt, sources, security updates, and the small ceremonies of running Debian on a server you'd like to ignore for two years.

Arch underneath, with the sharp edges filed off. Kernels picked from a menu, branches you can switch on a whim, and a graphical package manager that keeps the pacman.log honest.

No releases, no codenames, just today's packages. Reads the news before pacman -Syu, keeps a snapshot before everything, and rewrites its init system over coffee.

Not Linux. ZFS as the default filesystem, jails as the original containers, pf as the firewall, and a base system that doesn't share a single byte with the package tree.

Distribution-agnostic terminal and system topics: pipes, awk, ssh, filesystems, disks, backups, recovery. Rooted in Linux and the BSDs, and crossing over to Windows and macOS wherever the subject does.

Ubuntu underneath, with a Cinnamon coat and a strong dislike of surprises. Great first distribution: the installer is friendly, the update tool is loud when it matters, and Timeshift is set up before you've made your first tea.