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This was a topic that I felt needed it's own thread. You've probably heard of X11Libre, and its backstory till now. My position on the topic is that we need a well maintained X11 server with good security features, And That's X11Libre. I want...

Agreed, also I quit reading the xlibre rant by sidetone after I saw only expletive and opinion in the first few paragraphs and no facts. And of course, no sources.

ahh easy is good especially when dealing with me

Many thanks, I have very little experience with unix commands.

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make -V VARNAME|grep -q . if undefined $? is 1 otherwise 0

The US is also the last Western country where restaurants physically carry your credit card away from you. Even in Canada they use mobile CC readers that they bring to th table.

The variables to check are in ports tree makefiles, the FORBIDDEN variable is used as a definition. In the file /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk it is tested in this way: . elif defined(FORBIDDEN) IGNORE= is forbidden: ${FORBIDDEN} ...

If I enjoyed a meal I would sooner tip the person who prepared it than the person who carried it over to me. These days "service charge" is often included in the bill or there is a tip box to be shared among all staff, but I can't be sure the...

In search engine I found how to check inside a makefile but not using (FreeBSD) make command. I want to run make command to check variable in a javascript (node) script, I can only check stdout and exit code.

ya know...a quick google search on this subject brings up your answer very quickly, unless we misunderstand your question.

For example these are officially undocumented/proprietary parts on the mainboard of my 1986 XT computer : 1. A PC-BUS integrated controller "Faraday FE2000". This is ASIC chip of unknown schematics that integrates serveral Intel and 74LS XT...

Yes. They do the same with LibreWolf. I dropped them and use www.startpage.com

If you're interested in emulating some of the early Bell Labs Unix and UC Berkeley BSD UNIX, head here. More versions are coming soon. This can be a great way to learn a little more about the origins of FreeBSD.

tembun If only we knew what movie that was.

In single user mode only the root filesystem is mounted and will be read-only. It remounts read-write during the boot process after it has done a filesystem check. If you want/need to make changes after booting to single user mode you're going to...

Well, have you checked that the /var filesystem is indeed writable? What does mount show?

I need to check if a variable is defined inside a makefile file executing the command make. For example, to get the value for a makefile variable I can run the command % make -C /usr/ports/misc/mc -V WRKDIR /usr/ports/misc/mc/work % if the...

first of all all the files start with but more to the what you asked all of these files have all of their lines are comments. (starting with #)

Yes.

I’ve now tried to upgrade to 15.0 from a 14.3 basified install. No dice. Multiple errors (not consistent) that randomly stopped at different places during upgrading the packages from 14.3 > 15.0 I followed the instruction given at...

I experienced the same on my test system. Will retry when the next alpha is released.

For example these are officially undocumented/proprietary parts on the mainboard of my 1986 XT computer : 1. A PC-BUS integrated controller "Faraday FE2000". This is ASIC chip of unknown schematics that integrates serveral Intel and 74LS XT...

P.S. If you didn't watch this movie - go watch it tonight :)

I agree with your sentiment about modern consumer computing - closed off, non-reproducible wall garden systems for smart devices and such. However I do not agree with examples given. Management Engine is simply server technology that got...

Yes. They do the same with LibreWolf. I dropped them and use www.startpage.com

The irony is that it is a robot asking you to do the chapta.

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

/var/at/jobs empty /var/at/spool empty /var/cron/tabs/* -rw------- 1 root wheel 153 Oct 23 2021 admin2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 153 Apr 17 09:07 jason -rw------- 1 root wheel 196 Sep 15 09:45 root -rw------- 1 root wheel 424 Nov 26 2024...

For what it's worth, I have a few 14.3's, two are pkgbasified. The non-basified showed something to update (using freebsd-update) after I read the advisory. The two pkgbasified ones showed nothing. But then a few hours later they showed a lot of...

I use gitup for ports, then I ran portmaster nvidia-drm-kmod which pulled in all other needed stuff, like nvdia-drm-61, etc.

Back then, I'm pretty sure "undocumented" just meant you could write microcode the processor would accept and do something with but it's not something the manufacturer intentionally put in. In other words, it's random input producing random...

Microcode existed much earlier. The IBM 360 had it in the early 60s. The Motorola 68xx and 680xx had it. In the late 70s, I built my own Z80-based computer, together with a friend. We wire-wrapped the CPU board, the IO boards, and bought the...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvyUAaRTsww&list=PLcGZbzUhfcJbEazYYKUgdnEskZa5PX86N View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjpFfmhd9E&list=PLW9SLPilRzGJO8rMUezbw-tV6Jb2uYqxh I have another channel bookmarked, the guy builds an entire...

Many of them were simply not intended. You had stages chained into a pipeline (one clock mostly), and the instruction would activate or deactivate groups in there. So when you activate the adder and the binary inverter together, you get a result...

Nice, thanks for the tip! I'll try to remember that, meanwhile the thread is bookmarked ;)

Probably not as much sarcasm as you might think. Been there done that with NDAs.

Probably not as much sarcasm as you might think. Been there done that with NDAs.

yes, the package sets won't be backported to 14.x. edit: to expand on that a bit, there are a lot of pkgbase changes in 15.0 as part of the work to get it ready for a production release. these changes are all interconnected so it's difficult to...

"Hard interrupt" firmware is the worst offender. ME, BMC etc. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/supermicro-server-motherboards-can-be-infected-with-unremovable-malware/ All this firmware has to live on removable data media, and there...

"Hard interrupt" firmware is the worst offender. ME, BMC etc. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/supermicro-server-motherboards-can-be-infected-with-unremovable-malware/ All this firmware has to live on removable data media, and there...

It's just the only viable open architecture. ARM is 100% proprietary, x86 is semi-proprietary (patents expired, microcode protected).

Trust, but verify... 😈 Very applicable here, as well. This really feels like the last mile right now.

I like the studio version sour times & Glory Box the best. Also live versions of Roads @ Roseland etc. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jyL3cr60&list=PLWaDVcIBRPsu0TqxRb67pP0dLc1uX5LUS&index=7 Their debut album is great! View...

Thanks for sharing "Danube Incident", IDK about that score, although I live less than a mile (as the crow flies, 1.2 klicks) from a Danube, shame on me.

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...

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.