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Same here, 4 to 5. Messed up the upgrade, significantly. Didn't read /usr/src/UPDATING, the switch to UFS2 meant you needed install the kernel and MUST reboot to activate the new 5.0 kernel before installing world. Only read those instructions...

My most unfortunate memory of FreeBSD versions is a period when X11 would come up correctly but after a while of idling would lose keyboard and mouse/trackpad. Had that with several laptops. Ca. 2019.

Same here, 4 to 5. Messed up the upgrade, significantly. Didn't read /usr/src/UPDATING, the switch to UFS2 meant you needed install the kernel and MUST reboot to activate the new 5.0 kernel before installing world. Only read those instructions...

Never used Lua, I'm here just to say that I'm still sorry that they ditched Forth in 13 😢

Well, I am using an AMD RX 7800 XT on 14.3-RELEASE and it work without issue. With either the drm-kmods repos, or my personal repository. You just need to have the drm-61-kmod build on the same kernel version. See (with a shiny mesa version of...

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NetBSD has the best X implementation. It builds with their bmake. It can make use of EXA for modern 2D graphics acceleration, which nothing else has. They have Broadcom drivers for VideoCoreIV, which hardly anyone else has.

a.out to elf was 2.2.something iirc

When did we switch from a.out to dynamic libs? :) 4 to 5 was a big change (birthing DragonFlyBSD). It took a little longer for 5.x to stabilize, which turned some people away, but I think looking back 5 was a good thing. For me, I'm not sure...

For people running STABLE (🙋‍♂️) both changes were if not important, then something one has to get used to. I still know jack about git except how to pull. I already forgot about cvs 🤦‍♂️ When it was that we switched to svn? 9.1, 9.2 somewhere...

I reckon that Mat Dillon will agree with you on that 😉

No wayland with sway. But Xorg works if I set my pci ids for my dgpu (since I got an igpu). I can run Cyberpunk 2077 on a good resolution with it (and of course, you probably need some non merged upstream patch for ncpu detection).

I agree with covacat - 4 to 5 was biggest (as I heard, I started with 6), but also important changes in 10 (switch from gcc to clang) and 13 (switch from svn to git, OpenZFS), and now upcoming 15 with pkgbase

Well, I am using an AMD RX 7800 XT on 14.3-RELEASE and it work without issue. With either the drm-kmods repos, or my personal repository. You just need to have the drm-61-kmod build on the same kernel version. See (with a shiny mesa version of...

There's plenty of ports that pull in a Linux base already. You are fine. It might be good avoiding a requirement on linux64.ko during build time, though, otherwise the people running the package builders might be miffed.

4 to 5

Yes.

Kevin Kofler proposed it, it was rejected, but he made XLibre available in his Copr: I tested it in Fedora 42 in qemu, and it works just fine (with qemu Video set to VGA, but that's the same for qemu Gentoo XLibre, with Viideo set to Virtio...

There's an eSport of writing unreasonably large programs in a single defun in Lisp. Cuts down on function call overhead :)

Indeed, without spawning a long lived thread, its the same with Android too (needs to return to the Java runtime). Not sure about NativeActivity. I believe you get to control the loop. On Windows I belive you can post to the main message pump...

Wayland compositors do the same. You can see in wl_display_run. All servers and interactive graphical programs on a general purpose computer have a main loop. Often it is just hidden and you fill out function pointers, etc. But it is there. What...

Their mods wished they could hide the existence of Xlibre from their userbase. I don't blame them for not wanting their userbase to go with a project with a stupid slogan. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/void-linux-devs-censoring-xlibre

Did you ever try to use for search" search.dismail.de or/and eTools.ch It works for me long time.

I'd add that you may be filtering the print job unnecessarily. In your printcap :if=/usr/local/libexec/lf2crlf:\ Is only needed by printers that stairstep the code which historically were dot matrix printers. You mentioned that you had...

Booting into single-user is very, very different from dropping from multi-user to single-user. My settings are very simple, dhclient.conf is empty, reslov.conf has only three nameserever lines, all pointing to my ISP DNS, and in rc.conf I have...

rm means the printer runs lpd if you want to print to 9100/raw (hp-jet-direct) use lp=9100@ip.addr your printers name does not resolve add printers name/ip to /etc/hosts if your printer is configured to a fixed/static ip addr just replace it's...

I'd add that you may be filtering the print job unnecessarily. In your printcap :if=/usr/local/libexec/lf2crlf:\ Is only needed by printers that stairstep the code which historically were dot matrix printers. You mentioned that you had...

Booting into single-user is very, very different from dropping from multi-user to single-user. My settings are very simple, dhclient.conf is empty, reslov.conf has only three nameserever lines, all pointing to my ISP DNS, and in rc.conf I have...

I'm used to when booting into single user mode, that the network doesn't come up. In my case, when dropping into single user mode, back into multi user mode, I had to restart everything. It might have been a slightly misconfigured setting...

I'm used to when booting into single user mode, that the network doesn't come up. In my case, when dropping into single user mode, back into multi user mode, I had to restart everything. It might have been a slightly misconfigured setting...

Well, not for me, I forgot to mention that after I sudo init 1 I tried ping on LAN address and ping on google, both worked, then I did exit, logged in as user, and first command that I typed was startx and immediately started Brave, which was...

If you are using DHCP, can you try service dhclient restart? That command was fixing that problem when I was using DHCP and used "restartnet" alias.

Now it's working, before I got to that. It must have been a resolv.conf setting I temporarily had. Even though I restarted that too before. It could have been an rc.conf setting for my default gateway. requires setting up /etc/dhclient.conf to...

vermaden's work inspired me to write lsblk.lua, my version of lsblk(8) for FreeBSD. It is implemented in flua, a Lua interpreter included in the base system since FreeBSD 13. I was excited to find a new, powerful scripting language in base. Soon...

I don't. Usually, that comes from our leftpondian friends. It is correlated with authorian gouvernments, and those are still not as widespread here as some people from "over there" wish for. Sniffing out every citizen is something dictators do...

Because after using service netif restart and service routing restart or /etc/netstart, a lot of websites don't work for my computer. It seems that sites that include IPv6 ability work, while sites that only have IPv4 ability don't work. It's...

I'm having trouble to understand what actual problem is? I just tried sudo init 1 , exit, startx (witthout any service * restart ) and Brave had no problem accessing github and reddit which, according to IPv6 Compatibility Checker are not IPv6...

I'm not sure if I rebooted, or if it ended up working on its own. The purpose is to go into single user mode back into multiuser mode without rebooting, that includes getting the network back up without rebooting. Based on my results from ping...

Seems to be a common misconception among Americans, the EU and Europe are not the same thing. Europe is the continent, the EU is a political and economic organisation of several (but not all) European countries.

how the govt spies on you

Biggest difference in typeseting is that pdfTeX applies microtypography. Other than that, native TrueType and Type 1 fonts embedding and PDF features as hyperlinks, TOC and document information. PSTricks may fail, use PGF/TikZ instead. There is...

That's why I posted my bildworld/buildkernel example in #5, not to brag, but to illustrate my use case.

For that you must be root or use sudo, for shutdown is enough that user is in operator group. That's why I always shutdown -r now instead of sudo reboot. BTW, poweroff is okay for the operator as well.

Interesting; I never noticed that probably because I "always" run shutdown with either "-r" or "-p" and the last time I dropped to single user mode was because I was mucking with immutable flags on system files.

I use this alias if i need to restart the network (not dhcp, statically-configured). % alias restartnet service netif restart && service routing restart I've recently discovered on my own how to boot into single-user mode from already booted...

VMWare Broadcom comes to mind. Twilio was a nightmare. A number of smaller custom software houses were problematic at best.

This is exactly how shutdown now (without any options) works, and exit will get you back to multi-user. As per shutdown:

Biggest difference in typeseting is that pdfTeX applies microtypography. Other than that, native TrueType and Type 1 fonts embedding and PDF features as hyperlinks, TOC and document information. PSTricks may fail, use PGF/TikZ instead. There is...

Tired of those crazy things on Linux, like systemd, DBUS, flatpak/snap, and recently Wayland, pipewir, etc... I'm not saying that they are bad, but too overcomplicated. The configuration and stability may vary from distro to distro. FreeBSD...

Honest question, I'm curious: what is difference between init 1 and shutdown now? I was under impression that shutdown will have more messages written in the system log? BTW I'm using single user only for kernel/world reinstalls in STABLE -...