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Hello, I have an old and partially damaged (screen is flickering) Windows notebook that I simply want to give to recycling, but first I would like to wipe/shred the hard disk completely. Please advice, what is the best way to achieve it using FreeBSD boot pendrive? My best idea is to simply...

Hello! While reading chapter 11 of Lucas's Absolute FreeBSD I got fascinated by filesystems. I have been using cd, cp, mv and rm for 30 years now, but I know next to nothing about the inner workings of files. I'd like to learn more – are there some good resources that people who are experts on...

I have been using FreeBSD for a week now (well, using and using, mainly testing and setting up, but it is definitely a keeper :)). I have some prior experience with simple Linux distro (Ubuntu & Xubuntu), and FreeBSD revealed itself to me as a perfect answer to the question: "Which distro should...

Thank you! Worked like a charm. Now I have to read about what exactly vt100 means, and also decide whether I will sail with xterm or with alacritty after all. :)

I had a similar issue, and I solved it by adding this line exec --no-startup-id "setxkbmap --layout no" at the end of my configuration file for the windows manager (.config/i3/config). Thanks, SirDice and T-Daemon, for pointing out that Xorg.0.log tells us which config files for Xorg actually...

Hello! While configuring my system I managed to screw up fonts in xterm. I wasn't touching fonts or xterm itself, so I guess I happened to pkg remove a package that took a crucial font setting or resource with it. Now, no matter which font and size I choose in .Xresources, xterm has ugly...

Hello everyone! I am 38, maths and science teacher, originally from Poland, but living in Oslo. I have been a FreeBSD desktop user for barely a week now, and I really enjoy it. My OS story is that I was running Linux Mandrake and Ubuntu in 2004-2010, but then for a decade I switched back to...