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A separate tree would play very badly with dependencies that are already in the normal ports tree.

A dark vision, but unfortunately it has a lot of truth in it. I plan to be retired and maybe fighting fires for a fee when things explode and the vibe coders are useless.

Actually it will be "C rest in peace" once they've re-written everything in rust and made C obsolete. I'm sure that's the plan. They are determined not to pay, for software development. C is too hard; the people they want to hire - untrained...

I feel ya. I've got fadlang fatigue too, but this one is actually interesting.

Yeah, I was just reacting to the plethora of new programming languagues hitting the streets... 😂

I don't consider Distrowatch any official source for anything related to FreeBSD and is opinion based.

White stilton is very nice, and so is real Hawes wensleydale (not the supermarket junk). And... duty dictates, that since cheese has been mentioned, I am now bound, by time-honoured tradition, to post this:- View...

You can buy a t-shirt with the Megadeth album.

"funny"?

If it's still under warranty return it for replacement. If it's out of warranty you can remove the hdd controller and check the contacts.

Brought it back today, and in the following week I will get a new HDD. Also handed over a smartctl log for the manufacturer to check and see whether he gets the same errors. Pretty sure I will get a new HDD as replacement. It wasn't the cable...

Believe it or not, it is actually possible :)

Nice to know that also in the UK one can eat tasty food, or more precisely, that in the UK one can eat also tasty food.

I've had fun before. It was awful!

Silton cheese is mentioned in my link above:

A separate tree would play very badly with dependencies that are already in the normal ports tree.

I appreciate this effort but currently, IMO, we don't have enough games, engines, or editors to warrant such a move. The only popular contemporary engine we have access to is Godot.

HI as your HDD has no reallocated and no unrecoverable Sectors with only three Months Power on time , it appears to be healthy. A FEW DMA errors is not uncommon. From a Population of 20000 HDDs we used...

Today after booting, and rebooting I got 2 errors. 1. Shutting down the system showed me the error: "Spin down disk failed" after issuing poweroff. 2. Booting up again showed me errors I previously posted, and if issuing zpool status I get the...

I don't consider Distrowatch any official source for anything related to FreeBSD and is opinion based.

There are some MSR related things in FreeBSD already: cpuctl, cpucontrol, lsmsr.

Try manually loading the NVidia .ko modules by hand. Are they named correctly? Are they located in /boot/modules, or not really?

Are you sure you have x11/nvidia-driver installed? Non-kernel module part of nvidia GPU driver set are installed by it, and pulls in corresponding branch of x11/nvidia-kmod now. Upgraring from pre-splitting out version needs special attention...

My /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia contains Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection I wonder if you need this. [Note that I set this file up in 2021 and have no idea if this is actually used now!] I have...

You'll find it at /usr/local/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README if you DON'T explicitly disabled DOC option. And for 580.95.05, you can read web version here.

Regarding "big buttons", x11/gnome-pie looks interesting. However, there is not much activity in the project's Github repository and, according to the homepage, "very basic support for Gnome Pie." https://schneegans.github.io/gnome-pie.html

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 15.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites...

¿Does QTouchEvent work? If it does I believe making a fullscreen window shouldn't be too complicated.

I certainly don't mean to make a "case for Rust" (or Vale) but I thought this might provide some insight into Rust's borrow checker etc. Perhaps understanding *why* Rust has these features might make us appreciate them and may be even help us...

Linear types are so easy to understand! I may have to try to write some Vale to see if they're as useful as they seem.

Not only coming from Linux. UFS is a fully sufficient, fast, reliable, sophisticated, pleasing, while at the same time easy to setup, easy to use, and easy to maintain filesystem. I run it on both my laptop drives, and I would never think of...

No problem. You're welcome. Since you've chosen the title of this thread well, some other newbies might take a look here. I always try to write my posts in a more general way, so also others, even not registered users may profit from it, since...

Another possible clue is that if, at the command prompt, as normal user, I input firefox I receive a no screens found And, since I cannot seem to get into Firefox while using my FreeBSD installation, I am having to switch back and forth between...

Well, this is interesting: typing sysrc kld-list returns kld-list nvidia-modeset fusefs usbhid, which seems to say that nvidia files ARE installed. Inputting the above command results in vendor = NVIDIA CORP...

This is the default configuation for pkg. # # To disable a repository, instead of modifying or removing this file, # create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file, e.g.: # # mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos # echo "FreeBSD-ports: {...

Split the X/Nvidia driver issue off in a separate thread: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/x-stopped-working-after-upgrading-to-14-3.99714/

The UZDoom (forked from GZDoom, now the successor to it) team is looking to improve UNIX support for UZDoom, but they don't have any maintainers for the BSDs. I don't have enough experience with the way UZDoom works internally (kind of a messy...

It's almost like there's no easy way out of dependency hell (or DLL hell if you're a Windows type.) But hey, keep writing more and more package managers that allow you to download the Internet and damn the consequences. A sad irony that seems to...

It's almost like there's no easy way out of dependency hell (or DLL hell if you're a Windows type.) But hey, keep writing more and more package managers that allow you to download the Internet and damn the consequences. A sad irony that seems to...

Hah. Many commandline commands (coreutils in Linux speak) re-written in Rust for security, now causing a security issue: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Broken-Upgrade " Besides the early fallout of switching to Rust Coreutils on...

It's inherently better than any other option. Because the ports framework is being managed by those providing an operating system. Who knows the intricacies of a platform software runs on better than the ones developing it. There's less risk...

It is an interesting question whether you should kick out libraries that are unmaintained and known vulnerable. Doing the kickout would make all projects using the library (even as an indirect dependency) fail to compile.

Quick note here to add how to do the update on an ARM64 machine. In my case a Mac Studio M2 Max running a VMWare Fusion VM. In short: cp /boot/loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/BOOT/bootaa64.efi Note: I did this based on investigation of my system, where...

This thread is now even older, but I just wanted to say that you don't need the chown. Ownership is linked to the user id, not to the username. Since the user id doesn't change, the home directory shows the correct ownership as soon as the...

This how-to is about the update of the bootcodes on FreeBSD as it's little to no documented. It only covers the GPT scheme and is intended for people with little knowledge of FreeBSD. Edit: I wrote a script that gives the right commands to...

Short update for 15.0-RELEASE, I've just tested this with 15.0-BETA2: - jlduran@ has imported blocklist 2025/04-/28 in https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=e2dcc9fc4 - upstream has renamed blacklistd -> blocklistd so we have followed suit...

I would still expect a power supply with a ten year warranty to last a good ten years, especially if it is reasonably over-provisioned and a brand name device. Also, I would expect such a device to fail "cleanly" instead of going haywire and kill...

Yes :) I will inspect the issue first. If it occurs again I will try to replace SATA cables. If that doesn't work different ports, etc. Power Supplies should be changed after 5-7 years I think. Mine is 3 years old now, and always running in eco...

Funny fact: for me it was an EVGA Platinum 1000W power supply that failed. Granted, it was ten years and a bit old, but it was a 10 year warranty power supply so it was still unexpected. But agreed, not very likely, so it is at the bottom of the...