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Sigh, Yamaha and Turtle Beach made great cards...

Aquatica released some FreeBSD drivers on GitHub some years ago, but they left them at beta stage. Please google for it.

That's how it comes in packages. I used to compile ports to have a better implementation, but that's too much work now. Even with the dbus & pulseaudio processes killed, there was a segfault trying to start Waterfox, so I had to reboot. I had...

Is this former Aquatica card?

Neither pulseaudio nor dbus are demons that are supposed to go away on their own. Once started, pulseaudio is supposed to hang around for the duration of the user's desktop session.

Song: Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place, scene from Wall Street (1987) Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now

Neither pulseaudio nor dbus are demons that are supposed to go away on their own. Once started, pulseaudio is supposed to hang around for the duration of the user's desktop session.

I wish there was a way that Sun could be given away or sold by Oracle to be an independent nonprofit foundation. Many to former people at Sun MicroSystems. He may have no reason to, but he's already the richest person on the planet. What does he...

Probably unrelated, but Thunar on Xfce seems invincible with locking drives during either smb or NTFS transfers :p Why are you using Pulseaudio with Firefox?

I wish there was a way that Sun could be given away or sold by Oracle to be an independent nonprofit foundation. Many to former people at Sun MicroSystems. He may have no reason to, but he's already the richest person on the planet. What does he...

People seem to get defensive when I criticize Linuxisms and dependencies. They're actually, GPLisms. Though, these dependencies annoy me, that they leave a residue on how my operating system behaves. I'll turn off Waterfox or in the past...

BTW since I have updated to 15.0-ALPHA2, I have had zero disconnects.

Do check 6809, it was so much better CPU; pity that Motorola dropped it and decided that 68008 will be their low-cost CPU to go with. Just had funny thought, Motorola missed a chance for what could be hilarious joke – they could name 68010 -...

I love looking back at the specs on stuff like this. "Direct access of up to 64KB memory, clock frequency up to 1MHz with later versions up to 2MHz". Couples perfectly with a 300baud acoustic modem.

FreeBSD, a few weeks on The first impression, which still holds, is that what sets it apart from Linux is that Linux is "evolved," while FreeBSD is "designed." "Evolved" here being the euphemism Torvalds uses for a bunch of gung-ho programmers...

You know, I'm old and I need the money. Don't blame me.

We're Just Normal Men:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZ-1dNpYyw Greetings :)

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FreeBSD, a few weeks on The first impression, which still holds, is that what sets it apart from Linux is that Linux is "evolved," while FreeBSD is "designed." "Evolved" here being the euphemism Torvalds uses for a bunch of gung-ho programmers...

Based on posts in this forum, there are plenty of users here that run Windows 10, either on bare metal or on some virtual machine.

Yup, I have it on two boxen, one that I use most is triple boot FreeBSD, Alt Linux and Win10, and on that one I had enrolled in ESU. Other box waits for lazy me to add my MS online acc there and hope that I can accumulate another 1K reward points...

Well thanks for everyone that caught that, but there was a 6800: 8 bit cpu. It that would have been an unfair comparison to the 32 bit cpus. :)

LOL -Just to be clear: That's Motorola 68000 -- I had one and also a 68010 in another box. My bad, you guys already caught that ! :cool:

Well, 68K had 32-bit instruction set, with 32-bit registers but 16-bit internal data bus and 16-bit ALU. That’s where Atari ST got its name from - Sixteen/Thirty-two. So, it’s still not fair to compare 68000 with full 32-bit CPUs 😁

Based on posts in this forum, there are plenty of users here that run Windows 10, either on bare metal or on some virtual machine.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. New committer: Vladlen Popolitov (doc/ru) Continue reading...

So what is the outer OS version?

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Having web ui for graphics can easily be done with www/grafana, net-mgmt/prometheus3, sysutils/node_exporter. There is even sysutils/nginx-ui that may satisfies your needs. In the meantime, your solution would be to either build from source the...

Windows 10 users should switch to the FreeBSD forums!

Do Windows 10 users read the FreeBSD forums? :-/

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security updates are overrated

Why? That campaign is incredibly annoying, its followers have been harassing all of Mastodon for months now, “use Linux, it’s so great and everyone needs to use LinuxLinuxLinux have I said Linux yet?”. Seriously, if anyone still needs a good...

Time soon runs out for win 10. Ideally, you should all switch to FreeBSD. But if that is too hard, there is always an alternative https://endof10.org/

The cache file is / should be located in /etc/zfs now.

Thanks, that was helpful but the actual cache file is /etc/zfs/zpool.cache. I found that in another post. This fixed it: # zpool import -o cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache homevol thanks John

This typically happens when you try to run a binary for an older version on a new version kernel that doesn't have the required COMPAT_FREEBSDxx compatibility shims to run that older version executable. For example running a 13.x binary on a...

I just realized the issue; this one is an operator error. I setup pf and I apparently accidentally blocked HTTP traffic (HTTPS was allowed, though). Fixing my /etc/pf.conf got it working: # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org...

Easy to overlook the obvious. You figured it out though, that deserves a big 👍 Done.

Check your /etc/resolv.conf and eventually add nameserver 8.8.8.8 and then resolvconf -u

Strange, seems to work fine here dice@maelcum:~ % fetch http://update2.freebsd.org/14.3-RELEASE/amd64/latest.ssl latest.ssl 512 B 4202 kBps 00s dice@maelcum:~ % fetch...

Yep, it's really easy to get confused due to this shifting. Luckily ZFS will warn you if you try to "replace" with a disk that was already part of the pool. So take heed of that warning, never try to "force" it.

If a drive completely fails, the nominations might shift, drives are numbered in the order they're detected. Make a note of the new drive's serial number before putting it in the system. Then check with smartctl and compare serial numbers.

Another excellent track for the gym playlist. D.A.V.E. the drummer - Jack me View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJeVpahU2qs

There are typically two different workloads. High demand for single thread performance and high demand for multi threaded performance. What intel/amd sell is high in single thread performance, this is what sells them. When you need a lot of...

So I guess the combination of containers and VM's means you can run packages compiled for one instruction set on a different architecture CPU. It sounds like that would hurt Intel. But Intel seems to be particularly good at destroying what was...

Hello everyone! My name is Santiago and ever since I first tried Arch Linux when it came out with "FreeBSD-style rc scripts" and other "FreeBSD-style" things I've always wondered what the fuss was about. Now, I started a company with my wife...

Excellent post Erichans, thanks! I do agree with (almost) all of what you said here, and I admit – I’m so hooked on bash arrays even when there is no need, I go for them just for fun of it 😁 I only don’t understand what you have against cut? I...