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(Disclaimer: I'm a noob. Structure your replies accordingly.) I installed FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE last fall with the help of this forum. I haven't updated the computer since then, and have basically just ensured that, with my current install, the OS and KDE work and I am able to use Firefox...

After most recent run of freebsd-update fetch install and an additional reboot, I'm seeing different patch levels reported by uname and freebsd: root@abc:/usr/home/abc # freebsd-version 12.2-RELEASE-p9 root@abc:/usr/home/abc # uname -a FreeBSD abc.example.com 12.2-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD...

This is a continuation of a discussion that went off-topic. See also this post ff. Snurg & me then had a PM discussion (in german) on the topic, drop a note to get invited (PMs are not visible for other's), we can switch to english. We welcome any valuable feedback & ideas. Let's start to...

Hi all, I need help applying a patch. It's my first one. I ran into a bug/error running the docker run hello-world https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227618 At this point I found that a patch was out there... and I think I applied it... but I still get the error.... so maybe I...

hello I was wondering if someone could explain the below that is taken from https://www.freshports.org/mail/qmail-spamcontrol/ "TLSREMOTE, NEWLINE, and BIGTODO are now mandatory upstream and have been removed as options." Does this mean that the reason the latest qmail-spamcontrol doesn't...

I've just finished compiling the NDIS driver for my USRobotics USR5417 (BCM4318 chipset) WiFi PCI card. The resulting kernel driver formed by the ndisgen utility is BCMWL5_SYS.ko and it loads itself under the name ndis0 perfectly. I've configured everything that are outlined at the 31.3 Wireless...