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    critical vulnerability in devel log4j

    Quietly patching some applications, without telling anyone what I'm doing... :sssh: Low profile, no panic, everyone happy :)
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    nfe0? resolv.conf? error network !!

    In my system (with nfe card) I have to put these lines in /boot/loader.conf: hw.nfe.msi_disable="1" hw.nfe.msix_disable="1" otherwise network goes down after a few minutes with a "watchdog: timeout". As a side note, from here (Italy) today I can ping pkg.freebsd.org but pkg upgrade is...
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    backup media ?

    This could be useful (but not in the near future...)
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    FreeBSD is too much a a headache for me...

    From what I have read, I can hardly believe it
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    New motherboard and processor, kernel load very slow

    With "nvidia chipset" I was referring to the motherboard chipset and, consequently, the disk controller. More precisely, I have tried nForce 5xx and 6xx chipsets and both are painfully slow during boot. I don't think it's a chipset "bug", because every other OS (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD+UFS)...
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    New motherboard and processor, kernel load very slow

    Same problem here, never solved it. I've moved this problem in the "I'll give up/don't care" section of my todo list. I have tried every single combination I can think of: different motherboards with different chipsets, single disk and mirror, AHCI and non-AHCI, MBR and GPT partitioning...
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    Boot stuck on trying to mount from root:zroot/zfs/defaults []

    Maybe you should change root: with zfs:. If it's just a typo in your post, I suggest you to boot from a live cd and: # mkdir -p /tmp/mypool # zpool import -R /tmp/mypool -N zroot # zpool status -v just to see if the pool is ok.
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    What would you like to see in FreeBSD

    So we talk the same (alcoholic) language! Great... Sure. No problem, mate! We're not too distant... I'm from Italy. Stop here. We are off-topic, and I hear the moderators coming... :D
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    What would you like to see in FreeBSD

    No, I have simply taken your post as a starting point to express my opinions about this thread topic: "What would you like to see in FreeBSD". You said that FreeBSD should be easier to non-professional users, and I simply replied: "I disagree." and I explained why. I've just expressed my...
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    What would you like to see in FreeBSD

    This is quite extremists. There's no need to reinvent the wheel. Just to confirm the fact that there's no need to reinvent the wheel, here is my reply (Thanks ANOKNUSA, I could not have said it better!): Why do you take this personally? The word "you" in my post was not aimed at *you*...
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    What would you like to see in FreeBSD

    I totally agree. Well said. I disagree. I think that it will be far better to make things simpler for professional users rather than non-professional ones. If a user wants to become a professional one, he must get his hands dirty: clicking buttons on KDE dialogs won't make you an expert. If I...
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    Google Analytics now on forums.FreeBSD.org

    I understand and I fully agree with the concept "What I do is not your business", but I think it's too broad. The central point is: what informations can be used in a harmful way and how? How? I think that here lies the thin difference between "be safe" and "be paranoid". Let's suppose that I...
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    Google Analytics now on forums.FreeBSD.org

    We are typing in a public forum, so I don't see nothing wrong in that. True, but can we say that these kind of informations are "dangerous" to the user's privacy? For example, if Google knows that I like old b/w horror movies and suggests me to buy a remastered version of Bela Lugosi's...
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    Google Analytics now on forums.FreeBSD.org

    Thanks, you have confirmed what I already thought. Now I don't want to play devil's advocate, but I don't see anything bad/dangerous in that. Frankly, spam messages in my mailbox are several orders of magnitude more annoying than ads. Oh, well, if somebody at NSA waste his time tracking my...
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    Google Analytics now on forums.FreeBSD.org

    I am quite paranoid regarding security and privacy, but I have never seen Google Analytics a such great "threat". Can we be more specific about what informations this script can retreive? Personally, I don't think that collecting informations is a threat to my/our privacy a priori. We must...
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    Using packages and ports at the same time?

    Mmh no, this is not what I meant. I'll try to explain it better. Example scenario: a home desktop machine used by an average (read: not-so-skilled) user. Usually he use packages because it's simpler and faster to install and update software. One day he want/need (for any reason) to install some...
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    Using packages and ports at the same time?

    I agree, and as I said there's nothing wrong in trying new things - I often hang myself with over-complicated setups just for the shake of curiosity, and poudriere is on my "soon-or-later-I-must-try-it" list. What I'm trying to say is that in a single-machine scenario poudriere may be simply...
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    Using packages and ports at the same time?

    In my opinion, this is the central point. If I am familiar with both the ports system and package manager, then probably I am skilled enough to resolve a conflict between ports and packages, and I don't need to setup poudriere. But there's nothing wrong in trying new solutions.
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    Using packages and ports at the same time?

    Yes, but in the end, he still need to compile from sources. Plus the effort of setting up ports-mgmt/poudriere. Totally agree.
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    Using packages and ports at the same time?

    What about pkg-lock? He can keep a package locked to prevent updating, and use pkg-unlock when he wants to eventually update the package using ports. But I never tried this, it's just an idea - maybe a wrong one.
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