On a recent whim, I decided to spend a Saturday morning attempting to install Apache Tomcat 6 on FreeBSD 8.0. It turned out that it’s not as straightforward as some GNU/Linux distros*; particularly those that are Debian-based. Through some trial and error, though, I got things working as I liked. *It also turns out that I still hate non-free software, or software that comes with restrictions, which is probably why I drifted away from java more than 8 years ago. About the environment Since this was an experiment, I simply spun up a VirtualBox VM on my Debian workstation, and allocated 1 CPU, 512MB RAM, and 8GB of hard drive space — FreeBSD is famously small, light, secure, and fast. You can download the latest FreeBSD here. Installing [...]