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Hello! i was thinking on explaining the why etc of me wanting to switch to FreeBSD but i don't think it's that important other than just finding the solution for music production well, i've been using Arch for about a year now but i don't have any reasons to keep using it really, i use KDE and...

Sorry, may be I just do not know the propper kewords*. I want to make sure that a special jail is starting after another jail, it depents on. What to do in jail.conf (FreeBSD 14) or elsewhere? Thanks * I'm not a native speaker

Hello, a while ago I tried to install FreeBSD on my 2006 computer (which model is an HP Compaq 6720s) although I have a problem, and that is that when the installation starts, when I click "boot multi-user" or "boot single -user" then after those numbers appeared below the ASCII art, the screen...

Hey, I'm just starting my adventure with freebsd. And the problem appeared right at the beginning, while running the first command pkg install bacula-server I get an error: FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. pkg: No packages avaliable to install matching...

hey, you all. Just switched to FreeBSD from Gentoo and I am honestly enjoying the experience so far. I am however wondering what you guys use for grabbing hex-code colors and saving them for ricing, convenience etc? I used Gpick while on Gentoo and unless I am blind, I don't see any color...

Hello, I have problem witch stat command, when create file the time stamp st_birthtim show date Jan 1 00:59:59 1970 The full command: root@pwgcz:~ # stat test.txt 100 79525 -rw-r--r-- 1 root pg 0 0 "Nov 19 15:53:20 2021" "Nov 19 15:53:20 2021" "Nov 19 15:53:20 2021" "Jan 1 00:59:59 1970"...

I want to set up freeBSD to a 16 gb usb driver. I tried to plug my usb while installisation and got Cam statues: CCN request completed with an error. So how can I avoid these errors and setup FreeBSD to my usb driver?

Hello ! I have a problem that has been turning my head for 1 day ... That's all, I tried to install FreeBSD on a VMWare virtual machine. I want to install KDE5. My installations and configurations: -xorg -kde5 -sddm sysrc dbus_enable="YES" sysrc hald_enable="YES" sysrc sddm_enable="YES" I...

Hello everyone, I'm having little problem with my setup of FreeBSD and Softether VPN. I want to be able to make connection with my VPN Server while firewall_type="closed". I thought I had to add these rules: add allow udp from any to any 67 setup keep-state add allow udp from any to any 68...

I have a mini router from netgate - the SG-1000. It is sold as a pfsense device but it has a microSD card slot inside of it. I have what I *thought* was a good recipe for writing a FreeBSD img file to an SD card, but when I put the SD card into the netgate SG-1000 (and insert the jumper on the...

Hello! I have been searching high and low and haven't found a satisfactory answer to my question, so I decided to bring it here and see what advice is out there. Currently this machine is running FreeBSD 12.1 as the daily driver. For my class I need to have a Windows machine. I grabbed a...

Hello, I recently installed FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. FreeBSD booted fine from a technical perspective, but took about five minutes to get to a login prompt. I reflashed the SD card with the RELEASE version, and the same thing happened. I noticed it hung up somewhere near...

I have 469 ports that portmaster -L listed and when I go to upgrade them the computer restarts.

This started happening a few days ago. I log into my session and everything works but eventually the application launcher doesnt work and the inside of open windows goes black and I have to hard restart the system to get it back to normal. Im on freebsd12 with a amd 570xt and didnt change...

Hey guys, (running freebsd 12.1, samba48) I have initiated a samba server, with the smb4.conf and the rc.conf file having samba_server_enable = "YES" line at the bottom. I am running FreeBSD off a virtual machine, and it has an inet address of 10.0.2.15 (checked using ifconfig). In the...

Hello, I am new to this community FreeBSD. I've read a lot article for FreeBSD. It's very secure and efficient operating system. Recently, I started working on new project. I'm building Raspberry Pi 4 embedded device. but the problem is that I can't able to edit operating system Raspbian OS. My...

Ubuntu Linux is often touted as “Linux for human beings”. This is really interesting. The other day on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine we were struggling to setup some very basic networking configurations. Something as simple as setting a static ip on a machine turned into a science project. A few...

Hello FreeBSD Community, I would like to discuss the following. I'm working on a project that aims to build a "distribution" of Web-based technology, inspired by Firefox OS, in the challenges I've been facing I've been reflecting on using FreeBSD and BSDs in general. The first thing I thought...

So I've been using FreeBSD in the past and didn't have much time to play with it to understand everything. At that time I had no idea what libre(free) software was and now that I looked into it I agree with the idea that we should all have the freedom to run the software for any purpose, study...

Hello All, I am attempting to find out what my issue is with my FreeBSD Router that I am attempting to build. I have set up the following tools on my OS on my router: HostAPD DNSMasq PF All of which appear to work and I can route through the AP. However; I am not getting nearly the speeds or...