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Not long ago I created a swapfile of 16gb linked to md0 and set fstab properly to mount it on boot but I'm not sure it work. when entering swapinfo only the swapspace created by default during install show up in the output. When entering swapon -a the output is that swapfile is already mounted...

very simple if you have to answer with FreeBSD KDE, Gnome etc as a desktop/daily driver who do you think it's the right candidate for FreeBSD? [having mac os, windows and linux as an option too] e.g someone who does online banking, checking emails and cares about stability

Hello, I recently came across Terry Lambert's Quora response discussing several security concerns in FreeBSD, particularly: 1. VNOP Operations: - Race conditions in create/rename operations - Non-atomic directory entry operations - Thread reentrant issues in UFS/FFS 2. Signal Stack Handling...

Examples : - Do we have free will ? - Did the homo-erectus had a collarbone and thumb ?

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Hi, I have "watched" a few of the forums and selected notifications by email. But it seems I got an email only for the first message in each new thread in those forums. I'd much prefer to get an email *for each new message* - basically handle the forums as read-only mailing lists, until I need...

I want to install a Vulkan SDK on FreeBSD. I tried installing almost every package listed in the last post of this thread using this Linux Vulkan installation tutorial as a guide on a Radeon HD 6310, which uses the radeonkms kernel module. The packages installed successfully, but starting...

I am having fun learning the C language, however, coming from Python, there is a feature that I really like. And that's virtualenvs which isolates packages you use in your program from your main system. This is really helpful for me. As an example, last day I needed a package that would help me...

Hello everyone! ? I'm discovering FreeBSD so I'm starting to read some literature about this system. I often see in documents a partition entitled freebsd-boot which weighs 512KB for efi boot. On my virtual machine, I rather see a 200MB efi partition. What's the difference between them and why...

I found this interesting line in /boot/defaults/loader.conf: acpi_video_load="NO" # Load the ACPI video extension driver What does it do? Anybody has list of how these logos look like? loader_logo="orbbw" # Desired logo: orbbw, orb, fbsdbw, beastiebw, beastie, none...

I have read a lot about gbde, geli and dm-crypt under linux, but a question remains: Why would iI store my master key on the disk? Seriously! Anybody could rip the metadata off the disk in no time and brute force the password in a cluster without even having additional encrypted sample data...