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Hey, thanks for the replies! I considered the reinstalling, I resisted because I am using at the moment WindowMaker and I was feeling lazy about hunting down and reinstalling all the small docking applets. I solved that issue by doing creating...

If you have the sources installed in /usr/src/ the time to process the thousands of individual files takes quite a while. If you want to speed up the freebsd-update process remove the source files from /usr/src/, or if you really need those...

This is my first experience with an iocage jail. I managed to create one and I can see it using iocage list but I can't start it so must have created in wrongly. This is what I used iocage create -r 15.0-RELEASE -n myjail dhcp=on boot=on...

You can simply use poudriere to build your packages, then let pkg decided which packages to get from the two repository.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to try FreeBSD on a laptop, take note – 2025 has brought transformative changes. The Foundation’s ambitious Laptop Support & Usability Project is...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to try FreeBSD on a laptop, take note – 2025 has brought transformative changes. The Foundation’s ambitious Laptop Support & Usability Project is...

That is the price you pay. Being an engineer is about compromise. You can either use an unsafe language to use an unsafe library directly which is quick and elegant. Or you can use a safe language but go through bindings layers against the unsafe...

They definitely were because I remember being angry about slides 45 and 46, where the bullet points at the top of the slide absolutely contradict the actual data presented in the slide And Look at the data, and you'll see the Forum way...

Great thread!!! What is it?

fetch https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-198.00_3.pkg tar xzf realtek-re-kmod-198.00_3.pkg /boot/modules/if_re.ko Move boot/modules/if_re.ko to /boot/modules on the target machine, then add the following lines to...

This is the crippler: [01:07:09] [01] [00:00:00] Building devel/llvm19@default | llvm19-19.1.7_1 Spent 8 hours on it last night building on a NUC7 and it seemed to be the wrong version with llvm15@default I think I have it figured out. The...

The best explanation of ZFS I heard was by Bryan Cantrill when he presented Solaris 10 at a dog & pony at one of the hotels here about 20 years ago. ZFS is a volume manager and a filesystem wrapped up in one. Think of it as a Linux LVM on...

Then delete the political speech and keep the rest of the thread. As it is, it seems technical discussion was lost.

I also think that locking is a more elegant solution than removing. There's often valuable bits in such threads that go from technical to a bit of a flamewar.

Xlibre isn't a hateful project, their developers are just really bad at marketing and there's a lot of people who really don't like X11 spreading misinformation. I tried Xlibre on my Linux workstation and it had lower latency with better...

Well, according to the detractors XLibre was supposed to be just some political thing that would eventually fold in a short period of time. To me it looks like a pretty healthy project that right now is already delivering at least one feature...

I think ignoring the contingencies behind manipulating the open source desktop ecosystem is shortsightedness at best. If you understand the systemd debacle, you understand the xlibre/wayland debacle. Of course it's political, because the...

The mods were already closely watching that discussion in real time as it unfolded. They wouldnt have had to "sift through" anything. They were already "sifting" as you put it. Simply lock the thread, warn the particular offenders, and move on...

A warning should be "we locked the thread and deleted a couple particularly egregious comments." Nuking an entire thread so that it can only be found on the internet archive is group punishment against the innocent, and something completely...

Why wouldn't the mods just lock the thread then with a note "this has gotten too political, please keep it neutral." There are useful comments in there, and I was trying to find one in particular. Removing an entire discussion thread seems like...

They definitely were because I remember being angry about slides 45 and 46, where the bullet points at the top of the slide absolutely contradict the actual data presented in the slide And Look at the data, and you'll see the Forum way...

I remember that, too. Major event. They did it to emulate Chrome (again).

Old enough to remember when removing the status bar, because some dev wanted to increase vertical display real estate thinking everyone would love that, was the worst mistake they made.

The kernel also has C-written programs that are compiled and run during the build. So pure crosscompilation is not possible without sorting that first. There might be variables for that already in the tree,

I use it on Mac, and the default engine is Duckduckgo. It's OK.

Fluxbox,

I dunno. From what I see here the new CEO is even worse at corpspeak than the previous one.

Usually any kernel source for a specific platform already has that specific stuff in it and in the the config. Since the kernel runs on bare metal, in theory, it can be compiled on any platform. However, as cracauer@ mentioned, nowadays Linux...

Yeah, so let's behave like adults and try not to have this one locked too. There will be people trying their best to derail the thread, we must report them to the moderators and NEVER answer the trolls directly. The old internet rule of 20+...

Assuming I fetch all these packages, what is required to use these packages as a local repository on my LAN?

XNU memory safety in iOS is second to none. The memory enhancements in the new iPhone 17s and iOS 26 alone is a compelling reason to utilize one. Seems like the closest thing to CHERI on the market IMO.

The Linux kernel build needs a metric shitton of utilities in addition to compiler and linker. Definitely start with a full chroot.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to try FreeBSD on a laptop, take note – 2025 has brought transformative changes. The Foundation’s ambitious Laptop Support & Usability Project is...

The Linux kernel build needs a metric shitton of utilities in addition to compiler and linker. Definitely start with a full chroot.

CShell , do you have any experience with (cross)compiling Linux kernels in BSD? Is there anything special to pay attention to?

I agree, but from his post quoting his email provider, I know what it is about. Yes, it does, no stunnel necessary.

Having sendmail sending mail from localhost will only get flagged as spam on any serious email provider. Which then would probably add the ip to a blocklist. OP isn't clear about what is wanted here. Either this is about using the laptop as a...

Yes, it is possible from a laptop with a dynamic IP because he would be (mis)using sendmail as client. You proposed him a client that simulates this (mis)use of sendmail, and dma in FreeBSD base does it also. Anyway, my answers are irrelevant and...

Your email provider does not allow inbound connection from port 25, why are you trying to do so then ? Just use whatever smtp port they want, and use smtp to communicate.

Was this all bold and caps was necessary ? Having port 25 blocked is a known issue that can be resolved by asking your isp to unblock it for your static ip. But from what I recall, you want this setup on a laptop, which of course would not work...

Then do it with sendmail. I wish you good luck.

Seems *this one* is the only allowed XLibre thread. Curious for how long ... as others are closed pretty fast: - https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/open-xlibre-x11-discussion.100840/

It's not. If you want to have a proper technical discussion about X11Libre, you can do so here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/porting-x11libre-to-freebsd.98455/ You have none. Your site, your rules. Our site, our rules.

Question is: - do you want to develop applications that compile on Linux also? - or do you want to crosscompile so that you can use the resulting binaries directly on Linux?

Why its not allowed to openly discuss XLibre X11 server on the FreeBSD Forums? First - removal (instead of 'just' locking - which is also really bad) the older XLibre So long Xorg, thanks for all the fish, hello XLibre thread. Copy available...

All this stuff needs to come with copy'n'paste of the commands you gave and the output of the program in question.

Hi, I just wanted to share my gratitude to this community and thought that this was the most appropriate place to do so. I have been a FreeBSD and linux user for about 25 years now (with some exposure to OpenBSD lately), and I am still learning...

I also think that locking is a more elegant solution than removing. There's often valuable bits in such threads that go from technical to a bit of a flamewar.

How did you know the userland was still 14? freebsd-version? Well, I'm confused too. When you say you booted it's 15? And then you mount the root filesystem? Why? You booted the system? All the way, or just to single user mode? Wasn't the root...