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That question makes no sense without stating how many cores you build on and whether you want to use hyperthreading. What is your CPU(s)?

I can speak as 'insider' on this topic, as much as I am able to. You're fully correct. In EU the court can impose active or passive measures of monitoring against a possible criminal in a lawful investigation. The same way the court would allow...

Is this hypothetical or verified?

The ME and counterparts are partly to bootstrap the whole chip. Like, get the components online one by my one, maybe managing defective parts. The alpha had a way to skip defective cache lines, for example. You can do that with custom logic or...

That is debatable. You don't want security fixes for packages that did built successfully to be held back for extended periods of time.

My test VM updated to 15-ALPHA5 proudly running CDE :cool:

poudriere bulk -a wants to rebuild everything depending upon anything actually bumped by default. And recursively delete already-built pkgs in its builder repo before starting builds. And bump of OSVERSION causes everything to be rebuilt, even...

The UHID device group is owned by the operator group. So, simply add the user to the operator group and the key will work. The U2F group is created to delimit permissions, ensuring that only users assigned to the U2F group can use the Ubikey key...

Just following the example of the Patriarchs 😉:

On my VirtualBox FreeBSD VM (8G RAM, 8 CPU, 4GB swap) I can build firefox, thunderbird & rust while in XFCE doing things (MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=4). For llvm19 and llvm20 I have to stay in vt, they take 3/4 hours each one (llvm). In XFCE compiling llvm...

Thoughts from my neighbor - Geerling Guy Well, not really my neighbor but not far away.

What you are looking at: Two monitors, side by side. Window manager: - x11-wm/herbstluftwm. Top row: - I like to maximise application real estate so herbstluft is configured to use a "tabbed" layout for applications on a per virtual desktop...

The point of ME, the public facing part, is that it is of no concern what OS is running. The ME is even active when S3 is entered, and it can affect timing of components on the chip. And it completely bypasses the memory management of any OS...

Firefox is not that big of a build, it takes a lot of time yes, but it doesn't use that much resources. The thing to watch out for is when your poudriere might start building GCC, LLVM and rust concurrently. That's what typically killed my old...

There's a lot in here to unpack, but I'm just going to drop a few points from past visibility I've had into the process, in no particular order: 1. The builders run poudriere bulk -a in a loop 2. Package sets are not removed when a new one is...

To make ftpd a little more secure, you can set it to a specific static IP, which you've set an IP alias to. In your /etc/rc.conf, add to ftpd_flags=: -a followed by the static IP address. You can see this after restarting the service, and typing...

Stuff like Electron (vscode) occasionally dips out of the upstream repo. That thing is ginormous though. Nowadays I'm doing two things: run RELEASE on anything I care about, and build my own packages on my own Poudriere instance. Ever since I...

There's a lot in here to unpack, but I'm just going to drop a few points from past visibility I've had into the process, in no particular order: 1. The builders run poudriere bulk -a in a loop 2. Package sets are not removed when a new one is...

This is still not clear to me either. I have 14.3-RELEASE with Xfce installed on a modern, powerful workstation with a Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU. I saw that pkg was about to be upgraded which is a red flag to me since a previous bad experience. After...

Nothing fancy, KDE under Wayland works just fine so I moved away from X11. I only changed the wallpaper and the color accent from the default Breeze Dark which I like a lot actually. Oh, I enabled pipewire just because... why not? I managed to...

I'm starting to think the upgrade issues some have are because of Linux behavior. "OMG an upgrade came out 3 seconds ago I must upgrade" instead of sitting and thinking "should I or should I not"

Same here: rtw890@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10ec device=0x8852 subvendor=0x17aa subdevice=0x4852 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.' device = 'RTL8852AE 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter...

No. But we have it here everytime some patch, or minor update occurs: "!!!!!!!!NOTHING WORKS ANYMORE!!!!!EVERYTHING IS BROKEN!!!!!DON'T DO THE UPDATE!!!!IT KILLS EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!" While in 99% of all cases one of the following points turned...

I just updated two 14.3-RELEASE machines the last two days ordinarily with freebsd-update to 14.3-RELEASE-p3 14.3-RELEASE-p3 14.3-RELEASE-p4 after I first upgraded pkg: 2.2.2 -> 2.3.1 and everything went fine - as always. Not even remotely the...

*If* this is how packages are created, they should rename the directory (an atomic operation) *once* the pkg dir is fully populated. Partially populated pkg dir should never be visible to users. [A reason to not use a zfs mountpoint for pkg dir]...

Forgot to mention. As far as I've experienced, poudriere forces full rebuilds at least when whichever of below happenes. When OSVERSION (generated based on __FreeBSD_version defined in /usr/include/sys/param.h) is bumped (even in lowest...

Well, if you do use procmail you could filter out build failures for the packages you care about. That way you get an early warning.

Colleagues, could you please tell me why routing to local interfaces isn't being added to FIBs with numbers greater than 0 when I initialize them? I have FIB creation configured and automatic writing to them enabled: net.fibs=3...

Ouch. That's a high volume list if you don't procmail it.

An update: subnet-behind-hostapd-naming-conventions-and-naming-for-subnet.99497.

I will be installing FreeBSD for the first time. I was wondering what is the convention for the "Set Hostname" dialog box. The FreeBSD Handbook says, it should be "a hostname that is unique for the network. It should be a fully-qualified...

Yep. We can all fight all that bullshit. The question is - why we have to in the first place?

Browsing my filesystem for a networking question I came upon /etc/networks. I have never heard of its use. From the header date it pre-dates FreeBSD (nic.ddn.mil). What in the heck is it? Does anyone use it? I know FreeeBSD uses many methods to...

Well, it's about to get worse with some features on newest Intel CPUs needing binary userspace blobs: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-open-source-2025

For /etc/networks, previously tried: home.arpa 172.16.x.x #also tried home.arpa 172.16.x.x home.arpa It didn't show with netstat -i. While I named a lan in /etc/hosts, it functionally works as hostname and lan name to IP address, but...

You know, this was working last night when I wrote the post. It's not working anymore... I guess I'm going to have to upgrade to 15 for it to be reliable. Well, the instructions I had worked when I wrote the post last night. This morning? Nope...

Nothing fancy, KDE under Wayland works just fine so I moved away from X11. I only changed the wallpaper and the color accent from the default Breeze Dark which I like a lot actually. Oh, I enabled pipewire just because... why not? I managed to...

That's not a KDE bug. That's a sddm bug and I don't use sddm, therefore I'm simply not experiencing it. My system is geli-encrypted and I use autologin for my user; I start KDE directly via a script invoked as the last line of my .zshrc. Edit...

That's not a KDE bug. That's a sddm bug and I don't use sddm, therefore I'm simply not experiencing it. My system is geli-encrypted and I use autologin for my user; I start KDE directly via a script invoked as the last line of my .zshrc. Edit...

When Intel introduced ME (Management Engine) and AMD introduced PSP (Platform Security Processor).

Just following the example of the Patriarchs 😉:

And now you did it again! 😁

Nothing fancy, KDE under Wayland works just fine so I moved away from X11. I only changed the wallpaper and the color accent from the default Breeze Dark which I like a lot actually. Oh, I enabled pipewire just because... why not? I managed to...

And now you did it again! 😁

Exactly! I got tired of re-quoting myself about this, this thread included (#9)

Don't forget that official pkgs (excluding for pkgbase things) are built using ports with default options. pkgs are NOT available if corresponding ports do NOT exist. Ports are primary, and pkgs are for convenience. So to avoid fallout issues...

Ha! That's good to know, thanks T-Aoki. I guess multimedia/vlc works okay for me is for the same reason that print/hplip works – this is old install upgraded from who knows when. It was originally KDE4, upgraded to 5 and then to 6. I removed 4...

It would be Qt5 related here, as multimedia/vlc depends on Qt5 by default. Anyway, try moving the contents of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg, if any, to anywhere else that libraries are NOT searched for is worth doing in many cases. But at least in...

Ok I didn't notice that you were also affected otherwise I wouldn't have suggested it 😀 Sorry for the noise.

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