Congratulations upon reaching one of the most remote places in the web.

■ How it started
Over the years, I've been often suggested to collect my posts on *BSD in
a structured and easily accessible manner. While personally I don't keep
what I write in such a high regard, this website  is born as a spare
time project to address such need.

A couple of times I've been persuaded into joining unofficial wikis, and
even started contributing, driven by novelty and cooperation spirit.
Following the initial enthusiasm, the project's leader himself would
quickly lose interest and become unreachable soon after, leaving a bunch
of contributors without the admin privileges required to do basic server
mantainance.

This time I thought I might as well self-host; at the very least in this
way I won't be able to blame anybody else but me, were anything to go
wrong. On the plus side, I can arrange things in accordance with my own
preference and timing, thus to keep this project the leisure activity it
is meant to be, rather than yet another commitment to honor.  Also, no
docuwiki, wordpress, cluttered forum design, just plain text wrapped at
80ch, which is more than enough for any form of clear and concise
communication.

■ How is built
This website adheres to the principles of simplicity and slowtech.

Hosted on Raspberry Pi4, relying on a 27 mm mini-fan connected to the
3.3V GPIO to keep temperature under an acceptable threshold.

The RetroBSD Net runs the latest version of NetBSD's bozotic HTTP
server. Posts are generated using Logarion, which you can find more
about at <orbitalfox.eu>.

As I live outside city, where internet connection and elecricity are far
from reliable, I cannot grant full uptime.

Still a work in progress.

■ Disclaimer
Please do not assume anything you read here to be 100% correct,
reproducible, and bullet-proof safe. I am not a professional and may
commit mistakes or provide debatable advise.

If you find anything useful on this site and wanted to try it yourself,
make sure to also look at the official wiki, guide and man pages.

Tips, fixes and contributions are welcome! E-mail me at
<mailto:vms@retrobsd.ddns.net>. You may also finger(1) the address to
find out more.