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I wouldn't say the entire architecture is a black box. Documentation can be had for the basic chips and chipsets. Though the hardware is much more complex. Take CPUs as an example. And each CPU is different from each other. Not from basic design...

While sun is rising from the East 😜

I still can't decide which I like more: or

I was never a dev, but I was always "jack of all trades" @ $DAYJOYB and my intuition got sharpened by finding and solving all kinds of bugs in the $JOB $WORKFLOW, so I do believe that I was close to the cause with sddm.

Never underestimate Illumos. Oxide Computer, run by ex-Sun creator of DTrace, runs on it.

Share your illumOS experience for FreeBSD users. This includes illumOS based distributions which would otherwise be derivatives. illumOS was the successor project of OpenSolaris. Solaris evolved from SunOS, which was a BSD based operating system...

When I migrated my first FreeBSD server to OmniOS, I posted about my experiences here, so I’ll just link to it: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/solaris-opensolaris-20/initial-omnios-impressions-by-a-bsd-user-4175626757/

Thanks for mentioning Calibre, since I lost majority of my hard copy books in the cellar flood (I left them there with my parents while I was in Africa, but pipe broke and SHTF - literary), I'm doing all of my reading using deskutils/calibre

Thanks, but deskutils/calibre covers it for me. Screenshot

When I migrated my first FreeBSD server to OmniOS, I posted about my experiences here, so I’ll just link to it: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/solaris-opensolaris-20/initial-omnios-impressions-by-a-bsd-user-4175626757/

Never underestimate Illumos. Oxide Computer, run by ex-Sun creator of DTrace, runs on it.

Thanks, but deskutils/calibre covers it for me. Screenshot

new month, new GPU lockup Oct 1 22:31:03 kg-core2 kernel: [drm ERROR :amdgpu_job_timedout] ring gfx timeout, signaled seq=1178603857, emitted seq=1178603859 Oct 1 22:31:03 kg-core2 kernel: [drm ERROR :amdgpu_job_timedout] Process information...

I remember that. The year I transferred from MVS system programming (IBM mainframe) to UNIX, I was the junior guy in the UNIX team of four people at the company. One of my assignments was the training lab of a SunOS 4 workstation (for a teacher)...

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It's been a long time since I've used Solaris, I was working as an intern at Sun (between my 2nd and 3rd years of university) when the Oracle takeover was announced. I got to learn Solaris 10 administration directly from their trainers as well...

I'm intrigued by Illumos/OmniOS' kernelbased SMB server that fully integrates NFS4 ACL. I have never used it, but it seems that you can start a SMB server just by setting zfs sharesmb=on. Some claim better performance because it is integrated at...

Solaris Zone management doesn't need additional software to create zones, similar to FreeBSD jails. However, Solaris zones offer better containment and security because they don't share system resources with other zones. In contrast, FreeBSD...

I completely agree with you. I used to have OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana servers and their zone management and zfs are quite superior. However, it lacks software support which often times I have to compile from source code. When Oracle decided to...

There is a 98455 for talking about XLibre and rising complaints about its exitance. I admit that I'm guilty of straying away few times from the subject, but this one is supposed to be about sudo.

I am a Solaris user, so my opinion may be slightly biased. To create a zone, you need: - open zonecfg tool, - set path to the zone (it's one-liner), - few one-liners to add and configure net (address, gateway etc.), - another few one-liners to...

not on omniOS but on smartOS. We've been running bhyve VMs on it from right after it was available. bhyve has *much* better performance and less overhead than KVM, the VMs (especially windows guests) are much more responsive even with the exact...

Sorry I wasn't clear. What I meant is that every time I tried IllumOS it started booting from USB but always crashed either during the boot process of while trying to install.

You need to use an USB 2.0 thumb drive as it doesn't support USB 3.0 yet. Don't buy a CD/DVD burner like I did lol. You may try the latest in https://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/test/

Sorry I wasn't clear. What I meant is that every time I tried IllumOS it started booting from USB but always crashed either during the boot process of while trying to install.

Never been able to boot IllumOS on any device I own (they're all Intel based laptops).

I want them to do well. If they have more ability than it seems at first glance, even better.

Never underestimate Illumos. Oxide Computer, run by ex-Sun creator of DTrace, runs on it.

I mentioned how I got hooked on HM (and I am still), but in the mid '90s I went sorta turncoat and got into Psytrance. Although, generally I don't appreciate mixing those genres together, this one is really good, and it always made crowd going...

Share your illumOS experience for FreeBSD users. This includes illumOS based distributions which would otherwise be derivatives. illumOS was the successor project of OpenSolaris. Solaris evolved from SunOS, which was a BSD based operating system...

I opened a 289945 for it.

Hi, is anybody running bhyve VMs inside of jails and can share experiences? The idea came to my mind because of OmniOS (illumos) is running bhyve VMs inside of a non-global zone: https://omnios.org/info/bhyve_kvm_brand.html When searching the...

Portishead -- Theme From 'To Kill a Dead Man' View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWtgr_13VQI

I used to listen to The Look over and over until, a year later, I saw Iron Maiden "Aces High" video on TV and I got hooked on metal for life:

One of the singles I mentioned above was The Look - I Am The Beat:

When I was ~13, I got my first turntable as a present from dad. I got one LP and few singles with it; I liked singles (more in the next post), but that LP sounded just like stupid noise to me. Few years passed, until I was ~16 when I rediscovered...

Ok the permission problem is solved. back to my other recurring error which appear to be CRON relatated even though I have no CRON running as documented in the beginning grrr

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM&list=RDLJ25-U3jNWM&start_radio=1 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua2k52n_Bvw&list=RDua2k52n_Bvw&start_radio=1 View...

Hey, I didn't know that you are from Velo Misto 😉, when you said I honestly thought that you are living in .ch or .jp or somewhere similar where tipping culture is completely different, sorry 🤷‍♂️ I was only once in Split, sometime around...

To add to this discussion, the BSDCan video on Vox in FreeBSD has recently been posted: Vox FreeBSD: How sound(4) works by Christos Margiolis View: https://youtu.be/77STLO_9h14

There are some good talks about Audio/Music on FreeBSD by Goran Mekić (usually goes by @meka, @meka_floss). He used to post a lot about this subject on X, but account got suspended. FreeBSD in Audio Studio (FOSDEM 2019) FreeBSD audio in amateur...

Meka is quite active on Mastodon: https://bsd.network/@meka

Those banks have excessive fees, yet they overcharge and falsely charge. Yet, they can't pay their employees. Bank of America doesn't even provide basic services at their locations, which credit unions and other banks provide. You have to call on...

I have a 14.3-RELEASE system using pkgbase and there were no updates available after the SA. Today there were but freebsd-version -kru is reporting 14.3-RELEASE-p4 for all three. The systems using freebsd-update are showing p4 for userland only...

Much better description now. Thanks! Unfortunately I only use keepass for cut-n-past credentials into websites so I'm of no use to you here.

update: I now (since this summer) have a Kobo Clara BW - and I love it.

See, the stupid project of Xlibre keeps being brought up. It's a stupid project, so I don't blame Void for trying to hide it. This is exactly why. Void didn't attempt to sabotage the community, they wished to make some stupid project go away...

this whole process and the different opinions I have gotten confused e completely. I the whole purpose of DMA . confuses me... You have always been pretty consistent.. I know my mail system is a mess because I was using Maia Mailguard...

Everything appears to be working as expected. Thanks to everyone that responded to this thread.