Alfonso Siciliano: coding and BSD

Posted on June 26, 2026 This is another post in the series “A Personal Multi Installer in Lua”. 3) FreeBSD “Multi” Installer at BSDCan 2026. <- This post 2) Proof of Concept for a “Multi” Installer. 1) Motivations and Ideas for a “Multi” Installer.

Posted on April 9, 2026 A system call is the mechanism through which user-space software requests services from the kernel.

Posted on June 28, 2025 nsysctl project is a utility for FreeBSD built on top of the sysctl system call.

Posted on June 22, 2025 SysctlTUI is a text-based utility that allows users to view and modify the FreeBSD kernel state at runtime via a text user interface built on top of sysctl(3).

Posted on May 29, 2025 The sysctl() system call can get or set the state of the system, the FreeBSD kernel exposes the parameters for sysctl() as objects of a Management information Base (MIB). sysctltui is a Text User Interface sysctl MIB explorer.

Posted on April 26, 2025 The FreeBSD Operating System provides the sysctl system call and utility to get and set system state at runtime.

Posted on March 18, 2025 This is another post in the series: “A Personal Multi Installer in Lua”. 2) Proof of Concept for a “Multi” Installer <- this post 1) Motivations and Ideas for a “Multi” Installer This post describes the current Work in Progress wi…

Posted on 2025-01-27 - Updated on 2025-02-02 This post is a list of “I would like this feature installing the operating system”.

Posted on February 23, 2024 MixerTUI is an audio mixer with a terminal user interface (TUI) for the FreeBSD sound system.

Posted on November 1, 2023 The FreeBSD 3q2023 status report is online!

Posted on September 3, 2023 The FreeBSD Operating System provides the Ports Collection to give users and administrators a simple way to install applications.

Posted on August 28, 2023 Important: This post is now obsolete.

Posted on August 20, 2023 The FreeBSD Operating System provides the Ports Collection to give users and administrators a simple way to install applications.

Posted on August 1, 2023 The bsddialog project provides bsddialog and libbsddialog, an utility and a library to build TUI dialogs and widgets.

Posted on July 27, 2023 I’m back!