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Funny thing, they have among vintage systems, under "[1] - UNIX Systems sub-menu \ [k]" FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p2 😁 (menu [k] says FreeBSD 14.2, but OS is actually 14.3-p2)

Up until SunOS 4.x You can run `ssh menu@tty.sdf.org` to play with older BSD, SunOS 4.1, HP/UX, HP/UX, Irix, Ultrix & older Unix editions.

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My recollection, which could be faulty is that "SunOS was very much BSD, including the init system" "Solaris was initially call SunOS 5 and brought in a SysV init system". There were obviously other changes, but I think that was the biggest...

AFAIK traditional (BSD based) SunOS had much simpler init system, with only 3 runlevels and no inittab. SVR4 (System V Release 4) based Solaris changed init to SysV-style (please see Solaris 1.x to 2.x Transition Guide). In Solaris 10, Sun...

Did you reboot after installing? Or unload and reload the various nvidia modules. In my limited experience, when I updated nvidia and resolution was really low,I would be able to fix it by updating ports (I use gitup ports) and then running...

Good luck with that! 😁

I guess you don't know how freebsd works. The answer is "neither". Or "both".

Thanks, I have the driver 550 driver and drm installed now, but I cannot figure out how to change the resolution back to 2560x1440.

My experience with my "vintage" NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti has been when installing FreeBSD 13 and 14, pkg install nvidia-driver-470, then immediately, pkg lock nvidia-driver-470. I lock it, since, any upgrade will try to upgrade the...

The SVR4 change was a disaster for several of these commercial Unixens. Took years to make things functional again.

MATE (formerly GNOME 2) is my "go to" choice for FreeBSD. It is still reasonably light-weight and can be installed without any Pulseaudio dependency (unlike XFCE). Better feature-set than GNOME 3, of course. Also, MATE has not given me bad...

Ha, IDK about vfs_fruit, thanks SirDice 🙏 I always (since 2001) did this with netatalk and samba set to share same dirs, Mac clients connecting to netatalk and Win clients to samba.

Just check the patch count required to make GNOME and/or MATE to work. For GNOME to work on FreeBSD, there will be like tons of patches. I'd say it's effectively a reinvent of GNOME. For MATE to work on FreeBSD, it's almost patch free, and...

The ensystemdification of everything in Linux is part of Lennart's totalitarian vision for computing.

My recollection, which could be faulty is that "SunOS was very much BSD, including the init system" "Solaris was initially call SunOS 5 and brought in a SysV init system". There were obviously other changes, but I think that was the biggest...

AFAIK traditional (BSD based) SunOS had much simpler init system, with only 3 runlevels and no inittab. SVR4 (System V Release 4) based Solaris changed init to SysV-style (please see Solaris 1.x to 2.x Transition Guide). In Solaris 10, Sun...

Solaris 2 (SunOS 5) descends from UNIX System V Release 4.

I didn't realize that, this makes illumOS more Unix like due to SysV. SunOS was a BSD. Then, Solaris was a direct descendent of SunOS, which has a Unix' initialization system.

What I noticed: Windows 10 is also very fast - with the same config as Windows 11.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The FreeBSD Foundation is excited to share that NetActuate has generously sponsored a bare-metal server to be used as a Cirrus CI runner for the FreeBSD Project. This new system will expand...

This thread has made me wonder how much the concepts of Solaris/IllumOS, Mach and other OSes have migrated into the BSDs? Not line for line, but the concepts. Example: jemalloc in FreeBSD that was a pretty drastic/comprehensive rewrite of...

https://www.samba.org/samba/samba/docs/4.19/man-html/vfs_fruit.8.html Yes, it can be turned off, but stream has some limitations and xattr really requires ZFS, not UFS.

So, SMB works well with illumOS, when FreeBSD hasn't at times? https://illumos.org/books/smb-admin/smbservertasks.html#migratingfromsamba says that Samba and SMB can't be run on the same illumOS computer. illumOS uses its own SMB implementation...

Thought this might have been a problem, but these are expected to "fail".

Normally not, as the upgrade to 14.3 put the quarterly kmods repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf IIRC. Note that if you want to use the latest kmods repo, you need to adjust /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/. To see what you currently have, just type: pkg...

The CHERI/Cheriot article is interesting: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/embedded-2/27494/

Looks like they finished a couple of hours ago. Now they need to be copied to the mirrors, which takes a bit of time too. It should all be available really soon now. https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds?jailname=143amd64 There's a bit of...

this is not a "default gateway". default gateway refers to the route for 0.0.0.0/0 (IPv4) or ::/0 (IPv6) which handles traffic which is not destined for any other network. for policy routing based on source interface, i believe you have the...

Thanks SirDice, I am of the belief the issue is being addressed as we speak. I'll simply be patient.

The type or model of the video card is mostly irrelevant (as long as it's supported by the version of the Nvidia driver you are using). It's not the type or model of the card that's the cause of this problem. All these are supported by the 580...

A serial cable? Then you can unlock your real root filesystem directly via serial console.

There's an existing /boot/efi mountpoint intended for this. Add to /etc/fstab: /dev/gpt/gpefiboot /boot/efi msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 If you enabled EFI during installation it would have been added to fstab...

It's definitely not happy with your config, you seem to have it messed up very badly. At least your config has "rw" as a hostname, I suggest you post everything here for review.

Hello, is there a different GeForce video card that is compatible with 14.3? My only compatible PC is down since I carried out a fresh install of BSD 14.3. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Hi. I'm running a FreeBSD 14.3 server with UFS2 and samba419 (also tried samba420). We've got some macOS (tahoe) users who store files on this server and they want to use macOS extended attributes. In general, this works, but for every file on...

It would be because 14.2 is EoL'ed at Sep.30 and now pkg for 14.* is built against 14.3. And it seems the pkg is built using 2025Q3, as 2025Q4 should have splitted out nvidia-kmod pkg, if already built.

No, the command is local-unbound-setup and then see if there's a working nameserver in /var/unbound/forward.conf In other words, during installation, I specify a nameserver, say 192.168.1.146. Then, later in the install, I choose to use...

For the version of sh that ships with FreeBSD, the definition of "arithmetic" can be found in the man page for sh, in the section "arithmetic expansion". It has a list of all operators, and ++ and -- are not among the ones listed. It explicitly...

don't do this fileliste=$(ls *sh) do for datei in *sh you don't execute an unnecessary external command and it works better if there are spaces in the file names consider this host$ ls -1 1 2.txt 3 4.txt 5.txt...

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Wireless interfaces never do. Only the wlandev device (wlan0 for example) you derive from it would show up. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/network/#network-wireless

ppp does userspace tunneling; you might want to install net/mpd5, which negotiates in userspace but handles traffic in-kernel via netgraph. it also has more extensive documentation. we used it recently to monitor a PPPoE link that was in the...

By default is it in reverse lexicographical order? That seems more like what I'm seeing, as otherwise nsd should start before smokeping, and unbound would start last, but that's the reverse of what I'm seeing. Anyway, I did modify the script to...

Yes, you can do that with the re-root capability: https://people.freebsd.org/~lidl/blog/re-root.html For ssh you generally need /etc/passwd and pam. I don't know whether you can easily avoid that. The problem of course is that you have an...

I haven't been keeping track of T-Aoki's patch, (though I should as every time I update and nvidia is involved I have to gitup ports and reinstall from ports), but today, I saw another nvidia update and all was fine. Not sure if this was due to...

AI is not your trustworthy friend. cd /usr/src/sys/conf grep -h netlink * This will show you all the netlink related files the kernel expects when you use option NETLINK (which is already in DEFAULTS - at least in 15.0).

It probably got the filenames from somewhere else. Maybe somebody's personal project, who knows? The thing about LLM and AI in general is that IT DOES NOT THINK, although it does appear to do so. It has no understanding of ideas, meaning or...