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I've been trying to get a gui running for FreeBSD with QEMU, to no avail. I've asked in the WM forums and the solutions I've been offered from the helpful people there sadly did not work for me, so I'm wondering if it's an issue with QEMU. answers for either X or wayland would be helpful, i've...

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...

Hey all! I've been switching from Linux and have tried to install Steam. I think I installed everything, yet Steam only shows 'Steamwebhelper is not responding' and even that window is not rendering fully. Here are the full logs of Steam in my terminal, Thanks for any help! I'll answer any...

Keep in mind I set up a wireguard server and 3 ubuntu clients. we wg0.conf [Interface] PrivateKey = private.key address = 11.11.11.6/32 DNS = 8.8.8.8 [Peer] PublicKey = publicserver.key AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0 Endpoint = serverip:51820 PersistentKeepalive = 15 rc.conf wireguard_enable="YES"...

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...

Hello everyone, I've just installed on my T430 a few days ago, and I'm facing some wifi issues. Occasionally, when I boot up, I get no network. I am unable to turn on wifi 1 on Networkmgr, and WPA_Supplicant and WPA_CLI did not work and I'll have to reboot to try again. I'll post any logs you...

Sorry if this is offensive, but why the continued separation from Linux? I know that they both started separate, but I feel like both projects could get a lot of good from a merging. The BSD software could get a lot more eyes upon it, and Linux could gain more ingrained support for things like...

Hey all! I've been using Linux for quite a while now. Currently, I'm using Gentoo to learn about Unix-Like OSes and how C works (though the second part isn't going too well), and I think that I should also try BSD. I would like to ask how I would switch over, i.e. get Firefox, Steam, and such...

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5510 Laptop and everytime I try a live USB with FreeBSD 13.1 or 14-CURRENT or after a bare metal installation I notice increased fan speed and overheating of my laptop. The cpu temperature rises to 55-65 Celcius at rest. The same thing happens in Arch linux. Only in...

Hello everyone! Long time lurker here. I've migrated my servers and router to FreeBSD quite a while ago, so I am not necessarily a new user. However, I've been inspired by many posts on the Internet of folks who migrated to FreeBSD and never looked back, and I am considering the same. (a few...

I'm trying to get tshark to load before login on my FreeBSD 13.1 server. Preferably I would want ttyv0 to act as the server system notifications, ttyv1 should run on boot: tshark -i re0 -t ud -P -V -u hms -b interval:86400 -w /tmp/tshark_re0_PV.pcap and ttyv2 should run on boot: tshark -i re0 -P...

Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD and the way it works(I mean, completely new; I don't even really understand what's going on in the handbook). I'm mentioning this because I've searched the threads to find the solution to my problem and I didn't get half the things that were said, so please be specific...

So I installed mate DE and compton, but whenever I bring up a terminal I get this weird transparent after on all of my open windows. example in the file I attached.

Hello. I've been using several distros of Linux in the last couple of years so while I am seeing some similarities between it and FreeBSD (both being Unix-based, I'm aware), I realize I need some help to fully get around it. I can see that FreeBSD isn't an out-of-the-box desktop experience...

Hi I am new to FreeBSD and I have a fresh installation of it in front of me and to start editing config files before installing anything else I wanted to install Vim. But after hitting <OK> for the 1.000 time (at least it felt like 1.000), I just aborted it and tried out some flags to have an...

Hey everyone one, I'm new to the BSD's and I thought I would try FreeBSD after enjoying what I found with OpenBSD, so my install of FreeBSD on my desktop has been going fine, but for some reason I cant seem to get audio to work after my attempts in the past couple of hours. the output from...

I have recently installed FreeBsd on one of my older machines, currently there is no GUI and I am running everything as root. My issue is this, whenever I press capslock freeBSD will stop responding to keystrokes. In order to turn off/on capslock I need to unplug and plug in my keyboard. Does...

Was fairly easy enough to install it not bad . Of course it has many problems from qt-sqlite that can't be installed no way via ports or pkg nothing worked at all Gnome3 Gdm doesn't work it gives me a blank screen (with a dark color i think) Wifi usb support is very very very limited only one...

Hello, I've recently decided to try FreeBSD as an operating system instead of my old one. Now I know some of the questions that I will ask will probably sound very idiotic to some of you (perhaps this one as well), as I am a real dummy when it comes to computers, programming and all of the...

Hello all, I, as a total freeBSD beginner, will probably be completely in over my head for this one, but please try anyway. :p What I want to achieve; The Laymen's explanation; I want my FreeNAS to upload new TV shows to my tablet every night, until the tablet is full. I need a script to...