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It is not plan9, but ported programs from plan9 user space. The behave slightly different than in plan9. I installed once plan9 in an old computer and never managed to do it again. It does not run in any hardware. Perhaps it would be interesting...

When I was starting defunct-non-gpl-open-source-bsd-solaris-beos-based-operating-systems.99249, which looked into the history of SunOS, Solaris and OpenSolaris, and how illumos use seems to be slowly declining, I see the need for using a compat...

To not waste too much of paper/toner and if there is no single page PDF (or PS) around, easiest way to make one is something like: man -t bsdcat > bsdcat.ps ps2pdf bsdcat.ps and then nc your.printer.ip.address 9100 < bsdcat.pdf My HP prints PDF...

I use AMD-powered Thinkpads with good success. Are you sure your dgpu is turn on in the BIOS?

There's no reason to use crappy USB sticks. Get a USB-to-NVMe enclosure and a couple of 16 GB Intel Optane drives ($4-5 each).

If I could do this thread over, there would be one separate thread on illumos or OpenSolaris based distributions. The illumos Foundation used to carry illumos and the shared illumos repositories. The illumos Foundation also helped carry operating...

Me, too, don't have Discord account. But FreeBSD project has Matrix under testing. I'm on lobby and general there, via bsd.cafe account.

If I could do this thread over, there would be one separate thread on illumos or OpenSolaris based distributions. The illumos Foundation used to carry illumos and the shared illumos repositories. The illumos Foundation also helped carry operating...

Have a look at security, audit and maybe check the scripts in /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/ to get a rough overview of the built-in mechanisms. clamav is mainly intended for e.g. file- or mailservers to scan files that are later ingested by...

I didn't know about FabBSD, which was a command line BSD for CNC machining, automation and instrumentation. It's been around until 2018, and was from Canada. It was based on 4.4BSD and OpenBSD. BeOS was a single user operating system which was...

I didn't know about FabBSD, which was a command line BSD for CNC machining, automation and instrumentation. It's been around until 2018, and was from Canada. It was based on 4.4BSD and OpenBSD. BeOS was a single user operating system which was...

I didn't know about FabBSD, which was a command line BSD for CNC machining, automation and instrumentation. It's been around until 2018, and was from Canada. It was based on 4.4BSD and OpenBSD. BeOS was a single user operating system which was...

Thanks Maturin, that hasn't happened to me with the large number (all 2 of them) :) of printers I've tried it on over several years, but I should have remembered that *does* happen.

if your printer can process PS or PDF else you get lots of paper of the printed PS's or PDF's source code.

All these stories about Linux distros are garbage, I don't scroll this forum to read about this :-( I predict in the near future there will be almost distros as users :-D My rant :-o

Xlibre is highly political to start with, despite its claim saying it's not. Xlibre's founder made it political by using what cannot be mistaken for none other than a Trump theme. No software project meant for the general community should start...

I want to update from FreeBSD 14.2-p5 to 14.2-p6 according to the Errata Notice. However, the result of running freebsd-update is the message: "No updates needed to update the system to 14.2-RELEASE-p5". Why doesn't freebsd-update offer an update...

To not waste too much of paper/toner and if there is no single page PDF (or PS) around, easiest way to make one is something like: man -t bsdcat > bsdcat.ps ps2pdf bsdcat.ps and then nc your.printer.ip.address 9100 < bsdcat.pdf My HP prints PDF...

And add me to the list of people who like Void. It's a nice systemd free system.

Another satisfied Void user here. If you have to do Linux, you can't do better.

if your printer can process PS or PDF else you get lots of paper of the printed PS's or PDF's source code.

You can usually print a pdf using nothing but netcat--say if your printer's IP is 192.168.1.50 you can print a pdf with nc 92.168.1.50 9100 <myfile.pdf. Or use pdf2ps myfile.pdf myfile.ps then use nc to print the ps.

I see there's a waitlist for their search.waterfox.net. @sidetone said It seems as if the lower tier, though it requires sign up, is free, as far as I can tell. I joined the waiting list. Currently I use startpage as my search engine.

For Brother scanning on BSD, if you can't get the other ways above to work, you could try Scan to FTP. I have an old Brother MFC-7840W, and years ago when using OpenBSD I set that up and believe I recall getting a test scan to work. Whether that...

I see there's a waitlist for their search.waterfox.net. It seems that there's a free tier where they just ask you to turn off ad blocking, and that the ads won't track you and are contextual based on the page you go to, as opposed to your search...

I see there's a waitlist for their search.waterfox.net. @sidetone said It seems as if the lower tier, though it requires sign up, is free, as far as I can tell. I joined the waiting list. Currently I use startpage as my search engine.

By golly, I think I do, too.

Yeah, but I kinda like that individual. https://www.waterfox.net/blog/#no-ai-bullshit

Actually, the gnome developers is why I run KDE. Because "the ability to flip every switch and dial, with a reasonable set of defaults" is far better than having the developers saying "this is the way we make it, you will use it this way, and you...

Just few additions and correction or two, if you don't mind: I agree 100% Biggest thing for Apple in DTP was Adobe PostScript. Their first laser was PostScript, and you could use scalable (vector) PS Fonts on the Mac display with Adobe Type...

And add me to the list of people who like Void. It's a nice systemd free system.

There are a number of features in FreeBSD pf that are not in OpenBSD pf (VIMAGE, dummynet, basic ethernet layer filtering, SCTP support are the first that come to mind. ALTQ is the very last one to come to mind though. The old "It's an outdated...

Most of it, yes. I still have a few pending commits, mostly for the “once” rules. That won’t be in 15.0, because it didn’t land in time and I don’t want to make Colin’s life (the release engineer) harder than it already is. I don’t know if the...

That’s just a number. pfSense CE has been based on the main branch since 2.7.0.

And add me to the list of people who like Void. It's a nice systemd free system.

That's the one I was thinking of. It requires signing up. Though, they need money to have a product always available to the consumer. Kontos and Browserworks Ltd located in London develop it now. It's good that he has backing for Waterfox.

I am using their search.waterfox.net.

I remember "kontos" but not avatar...or do you think "gkontos"?

Another satisfied Void user here. If you have to do Linux, you can't do better.

Gnome foundation tried, and failed miserably. They wanted to completely remove xorg from their gdm display manager for their upcoming release of gnome 49. It turned out it was more difficult than they thought. Now they are backpedaling, and...

Actually, the gnome developers is why I run KDE. Because "the ability to flip every switch and dial, with a reasonable set of defaults" is far better than having the developers saying "this is the way we make it, you will use it this way, and you...

Im using Void right now, and i can confirm. Its far from unfinished or broken. As you said, its a serious linux distribution. Using doas and runit is just pure pleasure. Unfortunately, its still linux. And i have to use now instead of freebsd...

With apologies, Void Linux is a serious distribution, far from broken, far from unfinished. Not a very popular one, but I would rather use Void than anything systemd. Probably the closest to FreeBSD, if we ignore Slackware. My two cents, I might...

Yeah, but I kinda like that individual. https://www.waterfox.net/blog/#no-ai-bullshit

With the recent issues and questions I'm not quite clear on how pkgbase can go live (with no other option) in 15-RELEASE. I've managed to break a number of test systems with it without even trying. I think I understand why some find it a good...

To increase the access speed of your swap space place it into a RAM disk.

well for broadcom and others is even worse. you have to write the driver and compile it first so nvidia is still ok

I too noticed that recent LLM releases tend to stick to their (false) position and argue with me, whereas before they would often change their mind when I told them they are wrong. Recently had a debate involving a supersonic Mig-15.