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I certainly don't mean to make a "case for Rust" (or Vale) but I thought this might provide some insight into Rust's borrow checker etc. Perhaps understanding *why* Rust has these features might make us appreciate them and may be even help us...

Linear types are so easy to understand! I may have to try to write some Vale to see if they're as useful as they seem.

Not only coming from Linux. UFS is a fully sufficient, fast, reliable, sophisticated, pleasing, while at the same time easy to setup, easy to use, and easy to maintain filesystem. I run it on both my laptop drives, and I would never think of...

No problem. You're welcome. Since you've chosen the title of this thread well, some other newbies might take a look here. I always try to write my posts in a more general way, so also others, even not registered users may profit from it, since...

I'm interested in a MSR tool (rdmsr/wrmsr) for undervolting! On Linux I did this for -100.6 mV Offset Voltage and max IccMax on a i5-8400H: wrmsr --all '0x150' '80000011F3200000' wrmsr --all '0x150' '0x80000017000003ff' wrmsr --all '0x150'...

Another possible clue is that if, at the command prompt, as normal user, I input firefox I receive a no screens found And, since I cannot seem to get into Firefox while using my FreeBSD installation, I am having to switch back and forth between...

Well, this is interesting: typing sysrc kld-list returns kld-list nvidia-modeset fusefs usbhid, which seems to say that nvidia files ARE installed. Inputting the above command results in vendor = NVIDIA CORP...

This is the default configuation for pkg. # # To disable a repository, instead of modifying or removing this file, # create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file, e.g.: # # mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos # echo "FreeBSD-ports: {...

Split the X/Nvidia driver issue off in a separate thread: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/x-stopped-working-after-upgrading-to-14-3.99714/

I don't think that port is what you think it is. It has nothing to do with 3D engines. It is actually an (The most popular?) IRC server ;) I did get excited though for at least 3 seconds whilst the freshports page was loading. So thank you for...

Ok, it has been a long time replying in this post...but I've recently released version 4.26.2. Release notes etc can also be found over there. They're quite extensive this time and contain some interesting information. I have added a...

For those who is eager to test Plasma 6.5 by compiling from ports - the ports are ready in the area51 branch of my repo. You will also get KF 6.19.0 and Gear 25.08.2 as a bonus. Unfortunately Plasma Wayland does not start for me after update, so...

Fix for 286592 has been committed to main branch of Ports git repo, and separately, to 2025 Q4 branch... 👏🎉 If anything else is a showstopper for KDE Wayland on FreeBSD after THIS - please post here, with as much detail as practical! Success...

The UZDoom (forked from GZDoom, now the successor to it) team is looking to improve UNIX support for UZDoom, but they don't have any maintainers for the BSDs. I don't have enough experience with the way UZDoom works internally (kind of a messy...

HI as your HDD has no reallocated and no unrecoverable Sectors with only three Months Power on time , it appears to be healthy. A FEW DMA errors is not uncommon. From a Population of 20000 HDDs we used...

I was concerned about keepassxc and botan2 for a bit (post-install message), but iirc it was updated to use botan3 and is fine now!

It's almost like there's no easy way out of dependency hell (or DLL hell if you're a Windows type.) But hey, keep writing more and more package managers that allow you to download the Internet and damn the consequences. A sad irony that seems to...

It's almost like there's no easy way out of dependency hell (or DLL hell if you're a Windows type.) But hey, keep writing more and more package managers that allow you to download the Internet and damn the consequences. A sad irony that seems to...

Hah. Many commandline commands (coreutils in Linux speak) re-written in Rust for security, now causing a security issue: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Broken-Upgrade " Besides the early fallout of switching to Rust Coreutils on...

It's inherently better than any other option. Because the ports framework is being managed by those providing an operating system. Who knows the intricacies of a platform software runs on better than the ones developing it. There's less risk...

It is an interesting question whether you should kick out libraries that are unmaintained and known vulnerable. Doing the kickout would make all projects using the library (even as an indirect dependency) fail to compile.

This thread is now even older, but I just wanted to say that you don't need the chown. Ownership is linked to the user id, not to the username. Since the user id doesn't change, the home directory shows the correct ownership as soon as the...

This how-to is about the update of the bootcodes on FreeBSD as it's little to no documented. It only covers the GPT scheme and is intended for people with little knowledge of FreeBSD. Edit: I wrote a script that gives the right commands to...

Running a GPU and CPU stress test is a good PSU tester occasionally; I had a couple PSUs not handle that after a few years (fine for lower-powered stuff), and the first one I ever tried that on failed instantly :p (implying that might have been a...

Short update for 15.0-RELEASE, I've just tested this with 15.0-BETA2: - jlduran@ has imported blocklist 2025/04-/28 in https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=e2dcc9fc4 - upstream has renamed blacklistd -> blocklistd so we have followed suit...

I would still expect a power supply with a ten year warranty to last a good ten years, especially if it is reasonably over-provisioned and a brand name device. Also, I would expect such a device to fail "cleanly" instead of going haywire and kill...

Yes :) I will inspect the issue first. If it occurs again I will try to replace SATA cables. If that doesn't work different ports, etc. Power Supplies should be changed after 5-7 years I think. Mine is 3 years old now, and always running in eco...

Funny fact: for me it was an EVGA Platinum 1000W power supply that failed. Granted, it was ten years and a bit old, but it was a 10 year warranty power supply so it was still unexpected. But agreed, not very likely, so it is at the bottom of the...

My last HDD Raid also behaved similarly. Due to letting some drivers out, I guess.

1. Camcontrol devlist and smartctl clearly didn't show my HDDs correctly, now they are, after adding some options to my custom kernel I assume very highly that it is either option 2 or 3. More likely option 2 though as the SATA cables are very...

There's no logged bad sectors or pending sectors so i think your disk plates are good. The 8 errors that you see can be caused by bad SATA connection, power interrupts (disk reset) or bad connection between the controller and disk head. After...

As far as I know the NVidia drivers (and their DRM driver counterparts) aren't included in the kmods repository yet. But those shouldn't be needed anymore, as the repositories are now built for 14.3-RELEASE specifically. But due to various...

sysrc kld_list # to check what kernel modules are loaded if any sysrc kld_list+=nvidia-modeset # to load nvidia.ko & nvidia-modeset.ko on reboot kldload nvidia-modeset # for using it without rebooting # -- this may or may not work... Reboot...

Hmmm....it seems obvious to me that I should not have upgraded to 14.3 until after 14.2's EOL. Oh, well. It is a learning experience for me, at least. Ken Gordon

I pretty much agree with the ideas VladiBG said, so making a short list here of possible causes: Your driver mods might have been the issue, if this does not happen with a GENERIC kernel, you know what the problem was. Bad SATA Cable Bad...

Hmm. My servers downstairs, connected to a KVM switch, don't run X. What's being discussed here doesn't work. I simply power off the monitor. Job done. ;)

You can use xrandr For example, I turn off the laptop screen with the command: xrandr --output LVDS-1 --off

I am looking for a desktop menu program that would launch Xorg applications. Something with big buttons for touchscreen use. Any suggestions. I have tried xmenu but it is not what I want. x11/xmenu...

From this, I would conclude that FreeBSD repos are being constantly built. Each release version has several architectures (amd64, aarch64, and so on). With close to 40,000 packages (which need to be rebuilt for each release AND each...

Yeah. All my systems here at home use both. They boot off UFS while ZFS is for data. The reason: I clone them rather than install them from scratch. For example, when I cloned my old laptop to my new laptop I simply had to change a few settings...

DE has not been updated in years. GZDoom has all of the latest mapping features for WAD creators, and has progressed so far it is basically just an unrelated engine that happens to be able to play Doom WADs (it was even used for a few Indie...

After my 'experiences' with N95/N100/N150 systems ... I omit them in any way - they are FAR from 6W TDP like Intel 3150N were ... After my adventures with various Mini NAS systems: -...

ZFS does provide better data recovery. A minimum of three copies of metadata are written to disk. Each block is checksummed with a hash. You will almost always know when your data is corrupt with ZFS. UFS and old-school filesystems like it don't...

How's GZDoom compare to Doomsday Engine? I used Doomsday for years with Hexen and it seems fine on FreeBSD too.

ZFS does provide better data recovery. A minimum of three copies of metadata are written to disk. Each block is checksummed with a hash. You will almost always know when your data is corrupt with ZFS. UFS and old-school filesystems like it don't...

Now we know. Thanks. You may be interested in 279978. Cherry-picking a patch or a referenced commit from it should allow you to see proper error diagnostics instead of "Auto-Sense Retrieval Failed". That may shed more on the actual problem...

This is not cheese but a nightmare.

I'll try anything but don't know if I'm that brave :p

Also the one below? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu

PkgBase offers besides individual packages, so called "package sets" (meta-packages, see freebsd-base(7) manual for details on PACKAGE SETS). One of them is FreeBSD-set-base. With that base meta package, you can install/maintain the base system...