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    2024: The year of desktop FreeBSD?

    Been using FreeBSD as desktop since ... 2010 says my profile here :) and I'm planning to keep doing so. Why shouldn't I? Time to time I've been made to switch to Windows for some tasks, but wasn't much impressed. LibreOffice works better (for me) on FreeBSD than in Windows. And MS Word doesn't...
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    is "vi" worth learning in 2022?

    You're right. And it's not kind of "young vs old generation". It's really the world getting hastier every year in its race after... what???? Happiness? No way. Happiness is in , among other things, TAKING YOUR TIME, my goodness. Taking your time to read, educate yourself, meditate, do things of...
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    is "vi" worth learning in 2022?

    Yeeees... and that's also when you are in position to judge whether this thing you've just learned to use is actually lousy or not. Now VI is absolutely amazing in its effectiveness, flexibility etc. If it wasn't for "formatting" of the documents, I would absolutely do ALL the editing in VI. All...
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    is "vi" worth learning in 2022?

    Yes, and this can be true of about any other thing. Unless you get to know it, it would seem "strange'. Was DOS not strange the VERY FIRST time you started using it? Did you know right away how to start or stop a program?
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    is "vi" worth learning in 2022?

    A pretty long discussion it has proved to be, hasn't it? ;);) Well, I like vi because yes, it's been there from the start. So there's that to it -- it's history. But it's also VERY useful, not only because it's in every Unix(like) OS out there. Yes, it seemed strange at the beginning... in that...
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    IPFW is there a way to Port DragonflyBSD's IPFW3 to FreeBSD

    OK, the least I can tell you, DragonFly BSD runs perfectly well in bhyve. WiFi support is practically nonexistent, but who would want that stuff on his router (except for myself LOL). So for the time being you just run it in bhyve and use IPFW3 all you like. If you don't have VT-d supported on...
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    VT-d supported, but no IOMMU?

    Exactly! And I am also using one of those z77 mobos, and passing thru of USB 3.0 part works fine! And BTW, you can click Thanks there LOL.
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    VT-d supported, but no IOMMU?

    Did you try to passthru the on-board USB bus? At least to see how it would work. I'm sure the bhyve message about VT-d "not being supported" doesn't mean much. It only reports the results of its own efforts to do what it's meant to DO with whatever resources are made available to it by other...
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    VT-d supported, but no IOMMU?

    How would anybody know you did it all if you don't say anything? Nor how the "iommu" directive ended up in your /boot/loader.conf . Anyway, as yours is a PCIe USB card, those cards don't ALL play well with bhyve passthru -- which I know from personal experience. First I tried to passthru my...
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    VT-d supported, but no IOMMU?

    Hi. Missing here is any information about your having read any FreeBSD-related sources on how to enable/use passthru on FreeBSD. Good chances are, then, that your failure here is due to not properly using FreeBSD tools for that. Like this, for example. I, personally, am not aware of a setting...
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    How to ignore ssh known_hosts

    All right, don't know what it was, but I got rid of it by purging /etc/ssh and repopulating it anew. Still wondering, WHERE did it get the wrong remote host keys after I deleted ~/.ssh/known_hosts??...
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    How to ignore ssh known_hosts

    Before I added these things, the refusal looked like this (note it doesn't even mention ~/.ssh/known_hosts file):
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    How to ignore ssh known_hosts

    Hey everyone) I'm having this strange problem right now, out of the blue. Refuse to connect to a certain host. Even having done all the above, the refusal message now simply says: Host key verification failed. What can be the problem? Even removing .ssh/known_hosts doesn't help anything. Never...
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    Kernel panic after upgrade to 14-STABLE

    Ah yes, thanks. This is what I've missed :))
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    Kernel panic after upgrade to 14-STABLE

    I mean. How can 14 be "stable" when the RELEASE hasn't happened yet. Have I missed something? It used to be "current" until the alphas, betas etc start being built. EDIT: It says on releng page: main: Active development branch for 14.0-CURRENT. So... where does one get a 14-stable?
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    Is it possible / sensible to install FreeBSD in a laptop partition

    Hey, we're in 2023 now. Are you sure a notebook that would not support GPT (not talking about not supporting UEFI) would yet be able to run FreeBSD in any useful way (if at all)? It seems to me, such hardware will typically be so old and have so little RAM available, that it can hardly run...
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    Installing 13.1 hangs on IBM ThinkPad T41

    Don't get me wrong, that machine was made into a good terminal station: basic Debian i386 + X+ Remina -> connect to our Windows server, worked fine for remote administration. With 512M of RAM (wouldn't boot with 256M), if I remember correctly. That was when my respect for Debian as a distro grew...
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    Installing 13.1 hangs on IBM ThinkPad T41

    On the second thought... a year ago I was trying to boot installer on an old 32-bit computer. The problem was eventually found out to be -- not enough RAM! So we added RAM and finally were able to boot Debian. Nothing else.
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    Installing 13.1 hangs on IBM ThinkPad T41

    Hi ) Just why would you need memstick/cd at all? With your installation experience would it not be easier for you to go manual install? I mean, manually install latest (or any, for that matter) distribution and see if it boots. It's just a matter of extracting kernel + base, to start with. Won't...
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    pkg_bundle - A proof of concept to make relocatable installs from binary packages

    No, not the only one. I liked Solaris for what it is (i. e. was, when it was free to use). And it is those minor details/different approaches that make things what they are (as in different from one another). So, instead of being critical, my approach is to try to understand WHY ppl have done it...
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