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I agree with Linus. FooGPLv3 are designed to be hostile to embedded software publishers, and they are irrelevant to the original purpose of the GPL. The new purpose of the GPL is to advance Stallman's personal ideology.

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Put the following in a file tmp.me and run groff -me -Tps -dpaper=a4 tmp.me > tmp.ps for generating a postscript file you can print. It uses me macros, you can see USD 19, 20, 21, 22.

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I posted about that in #62

VMS lived on in a little product called windows-NT... :)

Not surprising, freebsd-update really only works for the releng/* branches (i.e. -RELEASE). The ALPHA builds are done from the stable/15 branch. BETA1 will probably be available with freebsd-update, that's going to be the first build of releng/15.0.

The CPU is rarely an issue, it's the iGPU (integrated graphics) that might be problematic. Can you run FreeBSD on it? Probably, most likely. Being able to run a desktop environment (X, wayland, etc) is quite another question.

It's not my intention to leave the forum behind. I just wanted to ask for help deleting some of my posts that didn’t receive any replies (like this one), or that might no longer be relevant in 2025. But now I understand that deletion is not possible.

Thanks for the info! 🙏 Does Typst have something like TikZ for LaTeX?

I went full TYPST since this upgrade and never looked back, Typst is awesome !

When we are at classical music – Infected Mushroom – Classical Mushroom (2000)

At one point I was a big fan of LyX, because I was too lazy to learn TeX.

There is also Aros

There is also Aros

Guys! It's no question that many people would profit from turning their backs on Windows and start using an open source OS - even if they don't know that themselves yet. And it's also no question that every open source OS profits from getting...

FreeMiNT / XaAES FreeMiNT is a free, open-source operating system for 16/32bit Atari computers and clones, based on the original MiNT by Eric Smith and officially adopted by Atari Corp. XaAES is multitasking GEM AES replacement.

A new screenshot with the latest release of gala, the desktop manager from elementary OS. Bottom panel is their new dock, above terminal, is their default music player and hidden files manager. Only problem :(, I had to downgrade x11-wm/mutter...

CP/Mish CP/Mish is an open source CP/M distribution for the 8080 and Z80 architectures.

You should use dump and restore for the copying. I am not sure how complete cp is.

Also, 9front.

Thanks for that info, IDK about CII (Compagnie Internationale d'Informatique) Iris mainframes 🙏 Only Iris that I knew about and used at $DAYJOB was Iris Graphics Inc Iris printer, a large-format drum color inkjet printer designed for prepress...

Yes, something like that. Just overwrite the entire partition with random data. That destroys whatever was in it.

we had a drum printer in high school huge, noisy, high performance, text only, shitty quality, a3 endless paper / tractor made by a joint venture between Control Data (CDC) and ro govt it had this technology bug/feature we joked that to draw a...

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...

Deleting, then recreating the exact same partition (with the same start and end block) isn't going to destroy the data, everything will still be there. Filesystem data has nothing to do with the partition information. So, no. You can delete...

DOS is the most widely used single OS today, and in history. At least when used by people who know what the use - RiscOS has a lot of stake in education, basic users. However it would be hard to formulate a point around FreeDOS for purposes of...

DOS is the most widely used single OS today, and in history. At least when used by people who know what the use - RiscOS has a lot of stake in education, basic users. However it would be hard to formulate a point around FreeDOS for purposes of...

Right, it's arm64 only. All on amd64 will not be getting a 'p6' via binary updates. The complete name & URL of the EN, dated 2025-09-16, is FreeBSD-EN-25:15.arm64: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512...

Step 5, why delete the partition and recreate it? There's no need for it. Or are you thinking that might destroy the data that's in that partition? That's not happening.

I'm not aware of any Laser that can be called "line printer" don't even know how it could be done, generally there is one beam of light reflected of rotating polygonal mirror that goes across the drum and charges it. LED printers are similar to...

Also, 9front.

Also, 9front.

Hahaha, so true!

Also, 9front.

These are mainly single user (as in having one user instead of having multiple User ID) operating systems. Some may have limited, or newly added multi user functionality: such as some are single user for their desktops. Security for logging in...

Thanks for mentioning those. Look nifty.

Well, the question is whether we are comparing simple table like data (row and columns). Of course more complicated data structures need a real parser, If on the other hand you have a 2-dimensional table in XML you can use XSLT to convert it to...

These are mainly single user (as in having one user instead of having multiple User ID) operating systems. Some may have limited, or newly added multi user functionality: such as some are single user for their desktops. Security for logging in...

That guy made a pretty extreme horseshoe move. From OpenBSD to QubesOS and maximum containerization, or rather full VMs. Much of what he wants be could done on FreeBSD with bhyve.

Note that specifying just a CPU count will simply appear as X number of single core processors. Windows 10 will only accept 2 physical processors, and 10 Pro for Workstations apparently allows 4 so this will be why it displays the "wrong" count...

True. But "it depends"™ E.g. I had a use-case where I had to only extract a handful of fields from quite large XML files (parts/price data with >500k entries) and could throw away everything else, especially all the XML markup, and then had to...

AFAIK first "dumb" and cheap laser with external processing was Atari SLM804 ('87). Page processing was done on Mega ST (to print graphics, it needed 4M RAM), but computer was totally locked up while printing, you couldn't do anything else. A...

hi all, it's not terribly off-topic but couldn't find another channel :) i'm looking for a company that provides hosting for: - having a jail on a freebsd based system - hosting a few small websites (mostly static html) - maybe a few services...

There's a 14 page thread: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-hosting-shared-vps-etc.21472/

A new screenshot with the latest release of gala, the desktop manager from elementary OS. Bottom panel is their new dock, above terminal, is their default music player and hidden files manager. Only problem :(, I had to downgrade x11-wm/mutter...

windows printer driver require that the driver implements at minimum BitBlt (or maybe StrechBlt / can't really remember). all unimplemented graphics primitives like lines, arcs, text,etc are supplied by GDI itself and GDI then sends a bitmap to...

Oh, never know that! As far as I know, legacy (non-laser) line printers had font "belt" or "drum" and a line is completed to be printed oncd the belt or drum rotate once, with impacters aligned per all character positions and hits when required...

People are mostly aware of (now obsolete) chain printers like IBM 1403 and drum printers like Dataproducts 2230 (link to PDF). They could print only characters, sorta like daisy wheel. Line matrix are different, Wikipedia page has nice...

There's a 14 page thread: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-hosting-shared-vps-etc.21472/