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Yep, buy apples, peel them, save the peels, throw away the rest..... Kidding

I heard they bring their parents to job interviews so... no, I don't think so.

That's the half of job of driver, the kernel side can be safe, like managing buffers and such. These so called memory safe languages promote separation of unsafe pieces from the rest of the codebase, so it can be given greater attention.

Aren't device drivers inherently not suitable for safe programming? Every time you write into device memory it is unsafe.

In what features is this great power of Rust? Genuinely curious.

This is correct, and I wonder - what can a "safe" language do about that? When adding anything to the list of kernel implementation languages, you create churn, waste, problems. Will removing,say, memory errors, be enough of a benefit to do that...

If you go into settings in Firefox, you can set the default font size to whatever you want. Right now it's 16px. However, it doesn't override what the site itself sets it to so there may not be a benefit in all cases.

For that page only or for all sites in general? If you mean just that page, there are ways to fiddle with the actual CSS. There is a way to set the default font size for all sites, too, but that won't always work.

That's not my understanding, but rather that if someone wants to change the FFI, they need to coordinate with the consumers, which would be the maintainers of the Rust drivers. This put the adoption of the FFI by Rust drivers on Rust...

Remember that C and C++ didn't come from the current "old fart" generation of developers. It came from those long since retired. So there is no reason to believe that once the younger generation even learn to write their own languages and...

Let the rust jerks go and write their own operating system then, instead of trying to get a free ride on the back of freebsd's success, which they never contributed to. And remember: your turn will come, sunshine, nothing is more certain. Some...

In my sshd_config the only changes I made: AuthenticationMethods publickey KbdInteractiveAuthetication no UsePAM no Password is set to no by default but right above it says "# Note that passwords may also be accepted via...

The real fun begins when you start to use tape devices, which can have different blocks size depending on which tape is in the drive ...

I still haven't figured out how to do ssh authorization using a key only?

When it fails, can you disconnect/reconnect from the usb port and see if it works normally then? I recently had that issue and believe it was a mouse gone bad but this makes me wonder.

I had Vidalia onion pie before. It was pretty good.

froggit9000: is audio/xfce4-mixer installed (perhaps reinstall it)? You should then be able to add the volume control applet to the panel.

I am a reference :cool: I had mistakenly commented out the regdomain line from my rc.conf and with 15.0-ALPHA5 my AX210 couldn't connect to my router in AC mode, only in A mode. Once I set the correct country and regdomain all was fine. 290147

Is <bool> the only exception?

I'm sure I'll be posting this in reaction to something, sooner or later. https://xkcd.com/

To the best of my knowledge no compiler does that automatically. In C and C++ you can do it by hand. It gets complex if you consider container classes such as C++ vectors. Vectors are guaranteed to be linear in memory, so just tiling a memset...

Security fixes. Any fixes (except that anything cannot happen on main) are introduced into main (aka -Current), tested, then MFC(Merge From Current)'ed into latest (if the code to be fixed matches, including older) stable branch, unless it's too...

What hardware is the USB port to which the mouse is connected? Motherboard, keyboard, monitor, laptop port, USB hub? Have you tried another USB port? The mouse alone, disconnecting all other external devices (if present)? Does the mouse work as...

That seems to be the case. See https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails, "Required steps", "5. Set up mounts in /etc/fstab, as described in linux(4) man page....you will also need null mounts for /home and /tmp. ..."

Yes. And now they want to burden those who do this on a daily basis with keeping the ffi up to date? Let's see how long it takes to turn into a fui, and the burden to keep it up is placed on the rust people. Then a stunt or two from the crowd...

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Brilliant, thanks a ton 🙏 That solved the problem – I commented out Linux part of /etc/fstab and added line linux_mounts_enable="YES" under linux_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and now .../dev/shm/ has same permissions as in 14.3-R-p4 drwxrwxrwt...

That seems to be the case. See https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails, "Required steps", "5. Set up mounts in /etc/fstab, as described in linux(4) man page....you will also need null mounts for /home and /tmp. ..."

Yes, Rust would play its advantages much more in complex algorithms, not bit fiddling with devices. But all the complex code in a kernel requires lots of access to existing data structures. Which implies a need for lots of interface code. And...

Aren't device drivers inherently not suitable for safe programming? Every time you write into device memory it is unsafe.

This is correct, and I wonder - what can a "safe" language do about that? When adding anything to the list of kernel implementation languages, you create churn, waste, problems. Will removing,say, memory errors, be enough of a benefit to do that...

No, very few drivers are picked up because almost all drivers in Linux are GPLed. DRM and wifi are special because they have been contributed by vendors and are not GPLed. Very. Even with example driver code to read things like DRM and Wifi are...

Two different languages in an o/s kernel is a recipe for disaster, IMHO. Oh well, onwards and downwards.

It is going to be pretty interesting if the Rust experiment works out for an operating system. By that I don't mean running Rust in kernel, that is easy. We also had effort to bring C++ to certain kernels, and when it was done, the said kernels...

Just to clarify, a Google Summer of Code project means very little to the direction of the project.

That's very good to know, thanks! 🙏 One question: looking at /etc/rc.d/linux doesn’t look that it covers for debootstrap need for /tmp & /home nullfs /tmp /compat/ubuntu/tmp nullfs rw,late 0 0...

Just to clarify, a Google Summer of Code project means very little to the direction of the project.

linux_mounts_enable defaults to "YES". See /etc/defaults/rc.conf. linux_enable="NO" # Linux binary compatibility loaded at startup (or NO). linux_mounts_enable="YES" # If linux_enable is set to YES, mount Linux-specific...

linux_mounts_enable defaults to "YES". See /etc/defaults/rc.conf. linux_enable="NO" # Linux binary compatibility loaded at startup (or NO). linux_mounts_enable="YES" # If linux_enable is set to YES, mount Linux-specific...

Yeah, my thoughts too. Anyways, I tracked down the issue to the second suspend/resume cycle, which fails all the time whilst the first suspend/resume cycle seems to work reliably. Definitely a regression when compared to 14.3 .

Brilliant, thanks a ton 🙏 That solved the problem – I commented out Linux part of /etc/fstab and added line linux_mounts_enable="YES" under linux_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and now .../dev/shm/ has same permissions as in 14.3-R-p4 drwxrwxrwt...

Instead of mounting Linux mounts from fstab, try rc.conf linux_enable="YES". The variable executes /etc/rc.d/linux ... if checkyesno linux_mounts_enable; then linux_mount linprocfs "${_emul_path}/proc" -o nocover...

Instead of mounting Linux mounts from fstab, try rc.conf linux_enable="YES". The variable executes /etc/rc.d/linux ... if checkyesno linux_mounts_enable; then linux_mount linprocfs "${_emul_path}/proc" -o nocover...

Just to clarify, a Google Summer of Code project means very little to the direction of the project.

I'm a 99% FreeBSD guy but in the kitchen FreeBSD failed for me. It did not operate the toaster. So only chance to make it work was the original.

Quarterly packages for 15.0-BETA1 and its successors are now available for the 'kmods':

Note for users of nvidia GPUs on any of 15.0 (BETA1, stable/15 or outdated ALPHA*): Currently FreeBSD-ports-kmods repo (I've checked latest only) doesn't have anything for nvidia GPUs except below. # pkg search -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods nvidia...

The reason may security related (old application versions), or perhaps hardware resources (occupying to much disk space). You may get an exact answer on freebsd-ports@ mailing list. By the way, FreeBSD:14:powerpc[64]/latest[quarterly]...

https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/ now shows the addition of a quarterly 'kmods' repository, now we have: kmods_latest_0 - populated kmods_quarterly_0 as of 2025-Oct-15 - populated Any install of 15.0-BETA1 has now access to all...

VirtualBox VM install, 14.3-R-p4 was cloned, clone upgraded using freebsd-update upgrade -r to 15.0-BETA1, then pkgbasefied and upgraded to 15-STABLE (FreeBSD 15.0-STABLE stable/15-n280708-bbfaff26bf36 GENERIC amd64 1500500). All /etc/*.pkgsave...