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What do I need to do to update from 14.3-RELEASE to 15.0-RELEASE? When will the new release be available?

Yes there is a good way using pip. 1. Always use pip as regular user, never as root 2. Always give the parameter "--user" when installing. So pip will stay out of your system directory. Pip always installs in...

The background might be that there actually is no innovation. I remember somewhere a cultural discussion (don't find it anymore), where it was explained that we can somehow measure the amount of revolutionary innovation - and during the last 50...

To rcbsdpge I would say that firstly, you should avoid large graphics when possible, a link to it might have been better, or putting your question in text. As for Arch level fame/infamy, my own first response would be OpenBSD as Arch is...

To rcbsdpge I would say that firstly, you should avoid large graphics when possible, a link to it might have been better, or putting your question in text. As for Arch level fame/infamy, my own first response would be OpenBSD as Arch is...

NetBSD then, I guess.

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I have only the file FreeBSD.conf Well, it looks like I fixed the original issue by removing _${VERSION_MINOR} from the pointer for the kmod files. Ken Gordon

I don't have these. Do you have any files under /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos?

yeah exactly, the outcome is the same, it's just the causes that are different i remember learning about Socrates in my philosophy class, so he was impactful for me too not really sure who these other people were tho' and i'm sick at the moment...

After upgrading my system to FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE, and after doing pkg upgrade, I am now getting the following after every attempt to install a package: root@KensOffice:/ # pkg install sane-backends Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...

In my entire career (& before then, school) I have used less than 20 languages (meaning written at least one non-trivial program). I learned most of them out of curiosity and only later a job fell in my lap where that paid for writing code in...

The things that are happening now happened before. It's a cycle of the same patterns at different time with diferent level of consciousness, I'm sick at the moment so I'll just point out names. Obviously missing a lot of others, but these were...

I believe I have: I input pkg delete nvidia*. As far as I could tell, all nvidia packages were deleted. Yes. Exactly. OK. I'll try that as soon as I can get to that. And thank you for the help. OK. I'll check that too, then. Again, I...

Excellent writeup. Absolutely! See, when these concepts were given their regular names, then everybody would see that they can get mostly the same thing included as open-source into Berkeley or Linux, or build it themselves. Only because these...

I'll raise you the even deeper insight: it's all just ones and zeros, aka bits, being pushed around. Since then they came up with "nybbles", "bytes", "octets", "words", "longwords", "strings", "streams", "files", "documents", "archives", "tar...

You believe that? ;-) I (try to) gain a basic understanding and move on, to focus on what I want to do. Life is too short to worry about all this. You have to use common terminology when talking to other folks working on the same or similar...

I feel the very same. So, I am sorry to tell you, there are only to ways: Shoot all morons (I'm not sure this will really help, or work at all), or learn to live with it. It's even worse than just having several names for the same thing, only...

It is the same about other stuff. "I don't believe in God, I'm more a spiritual person." It's the same thing, even atheism. If you have to believe, it's a religion. Agree. When I learn about those terms, I'm like it's just a server that does...

I find pkgbase to be ok so far, on some meaningless VMs. I've done pkgbasify on two less important boxes I have here, and it seems to be OK there too, but I have nothing of real interest on either machine save for some bhyve VMs on one. Although...

"serverless" is really just "/cgi-bin but you pay per request". these clown services are sold to make a profit on service that would be dirt cheap, to allude to mr. blankenship's manifesto

I choose the options I want but get Pre-order - Delivery within 14 days What does this mean?

And to older ones? I recommend: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf And specially: http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/recursive/recursive.pdf

I like On Lisp and Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming https://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html https://www.amazon.com/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Programming-Studies/dp/1558601910/ I never had exposure to newer introduction books.

Ah, one of those guys. I will put you on my ignore list in the interest of my blood pressure and civil conversation on this forum. But one final answer before you go: My car is close to ten years old with 150k km and has 90% original battery...

The OP removed the original content of their post (still to be seen in part on Google and Duckduckgo) and replaced it with a "Problem Solved", likely to make sure that nobody else could profit. Way to go, buddy! And yes, I have the same problem...

Hello, Lately I’ve been feeling really tired of all the endless terminology chaos in our industry. It’s always the same ideas — networks, virtual machines, configs — but every platform has to give them a new shiny name to sound “innovative”...

I will be staying on 14.3R for some time until I have seen that 15.0R is stable.

Only thing I can remark is my personal strong disliking to their whole billing scheme of virtual components like virtual network ports and when you canceled everything they still kept billing me for crap. But performance wise, nothing much to...

Hello, Lately I’ve been feeling really tired of all the endless terminology chaos in our industry. It’s always the same ideas — networks, virtual machines, configs — but every platform has to give them a new shiny name to sound “innovative”...

Upgrade should be fine, one thing to watch out for is the removal of pam_opie and pam_opieaccess in /etc/pam.d/system (both modules have been deprecated and removed in 14.x). If they're still in PAM after the upgrade that will prevent you from...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. I doubt you’ve been living under a rock for at least the last decade, so I won’t explain containers for you. I will, however, mention what the Open Container Initiative (OCI) is, since FreeBSD...

Speaking of choice, I believe vigole posted this book a few days back. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Principles-Practice-Using-C/dp/0321992784 Had a quick flick through. I was interested because this is written by Stroustrup and yet has...

At least this guy got some jail time: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/us/hellcat-charger-loud-car.html

Hello, Lately I’ve been feeling really tired of all the endless terminology chaos in our industry. It’s always the same ideas — networks, virtual machines, configs — but every platform has to give them a new shiny name to sound “innovative”...

It is the same about other stuff. "I don't believe in God, I'm more a spiritual person." It's the same thing, even atheism. If you have to believe, it's a religion. Agree. When I learn about those terms, I'm like it's just a server that does...

I checked in with one of my old employers with recommendations by three co-workers and former bosses who are still there but part-time. They had an opening for someone to work on upgrading the same system I designed years ago. I never heard...

Hello, Lately I’ve been feeling really tired of all the endless terminology chaos in our industry. It’s always the same ideas — networks, virtual machines, configs — but every platform has to give them a new shiny name to sound “innovative”...

No, I mean the type who will redline the engine at 2AM and yell "Hear that baby purr!" But the world will never be quiet enough. What I found was that the noise level is not the problem, it's the frequency. An old SUN would roar like a bull, but...

Don't do master master replication. Strictly speaking it is impossible to get it right without outside sources of truth. If you rely on a device to assess its state, a hardware issue or configuration issue of the device might result in wrong...

No, I do not want to learn programming languages only to learn them. Not one. I once learned MathLab for a project, used it once for the project and never again. Unfortunately employers do not believe that people can learn a language and expect...

I know what I know now (C/C++) and have Stack Overflow for everything else. Learning a language (programming or human) is typically done as a need. "I'm going to italy so I need to learn Italian" or "Job requires Rust, so I need to learn Rust"...

I'll start with C first :p

Candidate : "Excuse me, how do Hilbert space and eigenstates fit into a programming job?" HR : "Our web stack is written in Perl." Candidate : "Understandable. I have no further questions." Tis been a while. At least since the dawn of "Web 2.0"...

You and I know that but a lot of hiring managers and candidates think otherwise :)

I know what I know now (C/C++) and have Stack Overflow for everything else. Learning a language (programming or human) is typically done as a need. "I'm going to italy so I need to learn Italian" or "Job requires Rust, so I need to learn Rust"...

Oh I forgot... "Intelligent simian wanted... must be prepared to work for peanuts".

I read the thread... I just wanted to share my solution. I also have a work laptop (Linux/Debian) and a home laptop (FreeBSD). For work, I use software that is available on all operating systems. And I sync my work documents, code, and...

The most ridiculous job ad I have seen recently required programming languages and libraries about 100 years learning worth, plus OSes, embedded, realtime ... and quantum mechanics.

There are too many options on their website. I just want to find some company in Poland where I can have a FreeBSD VPS.