freebsd

  1. RetroComputingCollector

    FreeBSD development seems lost

    With the upcoming changes in 15.0, and some of the major changes before, FreeBSD development seems lost. There are solutions being applied and thrown around, without a problem. I think that the rust-in-base, deprecation of longstanding base utilities, and the push for more "toe-in-the-water"...
  2. RetroComputingCollector

    Biggest FreeBSD update?

    What do you think the biggest major FreeBSD version release was, in terms of the amount of users its changes would impact (not counting dropped hardware), and the amount of changes it made? I am curious to see what people's experiences with prior updates were.
  3. rcbsdpge

    FreeBSD source tree development on the GitHub platform

    Hey group, I always make sure to update my fork of base system on GitHub. I was inspecting and looking over the CI/CD pipeline when syncing my forked repository and I tabbed over because I noticed some security notifications. I guess CodeQL popped some bugs during the builds. What does this mean...
  4. ShelLuser

    A 4th way to "Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes" (Hyper-V)

    Hi gang! Editorial (brief) So.. the FreeBSD foundation posted a new article on their blog today (= time of writing) which explains 3 ways to try FreeBSD. I really enjoyed the article, but... uhm... what about us Microsofties? ;) They addressed Apple Macbook, Amazon (Lightsail & EC2), but...
  5. kupereal

    How to use ports and packages system together?

    Preamble. I installed utility sudo from ports system. Everything is fine! In my version of the OS the package manager (pkg) is already installed. I enter pkg info, and see sudo in the list of applications. It turns out that now I can perform any operations with this software through the package...
  6. zonefileyouth

    Scroll up/down mousewheel

    I got it working with Linux, so if anyone knows why that my Logitech bluetooth mouse (host) as guest 3.0 USB doesn't permit. I'm talking about, "a working mousewheel".. Does the Xorg come to be culprit because I rebooted after adding hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 To /boot/loader.conf The behavior...
  7. T

    Apple MacBook Air 13.6 M2 - arm64

    So I got myself a cheap (well, everything is relative) Apple MacBook Air 13.6 M2, this is comparable to the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge - everything is soldered in. Of course I had to try booting FreeBSD on it for fun. I used the...
  8. NapoleonWils0n

    Google Gemini gem search the Freebsd Handbook, Forum, Youtube and Vermaden's site

    Google Gemini has a feature called the Gem manager This allows you to create your own gems which are custom prompts for Gemini So you can create a Gemini prompt that searches the Freebsd Handbook, Forum, Youtube and vermaden's site you can also set it to exclude Google results so you only get...
  9. NapoleonWils0n

    Shell zsh check os with ostype and uname

    i have 3 jails that use nullfs to mount the home directory each jail has zsh installed and so they all use the zsh config files i need a way to check the os, so i can have different shell config for each jail so they can have different shell paths XDG_RUNTIME_DIR directories, or use X11 or...
  10. D

    Other COSMIC desktop for FreeBSD

    Good moorning, I need help for install COSMIC desktop on FreeBSD I need the instructions, please Thanks
  11. T

    Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge - arm64

    I have this Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge laptop now. As everything is soldered in, it is more of an overgrown phone, but anyway. For fun I tried booting a recent FreeBSD snapshot on it, the snapshot was FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20250227-8a85584785e3-275712-memstick.img.xz which I put on a...
  12. NapoleonWils0n

    Freebsd 14.2 p1 is out

    Just a heads up Freebsd 14.2 p1 is out freebsd-version -kru 14.2-RELEASE-p1 14.2-RELEASE-p1 14.2-RELEASE-p1 uname -a FreeBSD pollux 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64 there is an update for musicpd note if you have a custom musicpd rc.d script in...
  13. M

    Other FreeBSD look and feel on a major Linux like Debian?

    I have this idea that I thought that Linuxulator is great when it runs a Linux program. But there exists programs which do not work with Linuxulator or are not developed with Linuxulator or FreeBSD in mind. So when such software exists, I want to use Linux, because the program is made for it...
  14. re600900ra

    [Bluetooth] CSR Bluetooth Dongle not working on FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE (BabaOS) - Need assistance

    Hello FreeBSD (BabaOS) community, I'm experiencing issues with a Bluetooth USB dongle on my FreeBSD system and need your help. System details: FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE releng/14.2-n269506-c8918d6c7412 GENERIC amd64 Hardware: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Vendor ID: 0x0a12...
  15. NapoleonWils0n

    Freebsd has more up to date packages than Ubuntu

    Freebsd 14.2 quarterly has more up to date packages than Ubuntu 24.10 wlroots on Freebsd is version 18, on Ubuntu its version 17 dwl 0.7 requires wlroots 18, a lot of other wlroots wayland compositors require version 18 Freebsd is better if you want to use a wlroots wayland compositor...
  16. tutu23

    Simple questions about FreeBSD at the beginning of the journey

    Hey, everybody! Guys, I have a few questions. I've switched from linux to openbsd on my laptop for a few months now and I'm loving it. But I have questions about freebsd on my PC, which I also want to migrate from linux to freebsd. The only thing is that I really like the PoE game series. I...
  17. K

    FreeBSD Support wifi cards

    I can't find an answer to my question anywhere so I decided to post on the forum, is my tp link archer t600u plus adapter supported under freebsd or not?????
  18. F

    Steam is no longer working (linux-steam-utils)

    I just installed linux-steam-utils on my main machine after trying it out in a VM yesterday but either it's no longer working or I did something wrong. This is all I get when running the steam command after following the steps I got after installing it and rebooting (Linux is already enabled)...
  19. F

    Black screen if I reboot after installing drm-kmod

    I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my PC (Switching from Arch Linux) and for some reason installing the drm-kmod package the handbook says to install I no longer even get a console when I reboot. Instead when I boot everything appears to be successful and then randomly my monitor goes black...
  20. GrandAdmiralThrawn

    Display turns black when the i915kms loads FreeBSD 14.2

    Hello, I have just upgraded my old HP nc6320 notebook from FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE to 14.2-RELEASE following the manual to the letter. The machine boots all the way to the login screen and I can log in remotely via ssh. Thing is I can't see that local login screen (terminal login), because the...
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