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Quite often I see decisions around creating XML schemas that involve the same mistake repeated over and over. The persons making the decisions seem to have forgotten that XML supports attributes and that you express data in those attributes...

Funnily enough I did have a B580 card laying around, but I was missing a machine to put it into. So a week or two ago I ordered the machine, recently put it together, and today install FreeBSD 15.0-release on it, and upgraded to 15.0-release-p2...

What I mean is that graphical user interfaces should be able to resize, scale, move or any other adjustment without it taking time, like any other graphical application. Try to change the scale of the entire screen of the Xorg-server. You can't...

I take it you're referring to thin jails there as thick jails, from what I can work out, aren't that much different in terms of size and resources from podman or docker containers. I'm still working out how to do it, but from what I've read you...

X11Libre isn't about being "faster than Xorg." It is more likely an actively maintained archive of X11 that we are used to and like. in my understanding Speed is not necessarily an indicator of quality :P

Not only CDE uses rpcbind but legacy NFS (NFSv3) does as well. You can limit what rpcbind listens to in rc.conf. If a person doesn't use the CDE calendar (I don't, I 've used plan for decades) one doesn't need cmsd. Just don't start it...

It was not. The great advantage of Unix in today's world is that it happened to be there at the right time, when PCs became affordable. Although there were operating systems "early enough" with V10 UNIX and – later – Plan 9, which took something...

At our company, we’ve been building and deploying our products inside 13.4 jails. However, since new customer installations are now running on FreeBSD 15, we no longer have access to 13.4 jails. As a result, the 13.4 builds we create on our own...

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You are right about techniques how to gain popularity, how to grow customers. And we don't need to argue about that more users are better. No question. But just growing - raise the number of users, only - alone will not do good. Especially not...

Never used any. I got a SGI Indigo for free 20 years ago but it never worked for unknown reason. Now they are rare and expensive. I don't think I'll ever meet a UNIX box for nothing again.

Well, then do something about it. I rented a few KVM. There is fun in it, these things need not be big, they need run their own tunnel mesh, and than can e.g. circumvent bad provider peerings. And they cost three Euro per month. I was...

Ugh... After so much effort, I still have to say I didn't achieve anything! Almost all of my time is spent wrestling with VPNs. The filtering system is extremely complex and multi-layered; almost all VPNs have stopped working. The internet keeps...

Same problem here in Russia, it got stuck at a certain percent of download, and was "stalled". At least my wireguard server still works, so installing wireguard-tools locally helped to mitigate this. Posting this just to report that this happens...

That's because this website (which is not affiliated with the FreeBSD project) has an outdated version. It's currently 1.2.1_1, not 1.1.3_1: https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/spoofdpi-1.2.1_1.pkg If you have access to...

It doesn't make much sense. You can play a fullscreen video or display animated rendered graphics but a 2-dimensional UI zooming in to a part of the screen is a problem. I'm not buying that. I think we have to lose accellerators because they are...

I've been using security/py-fail2ban for some years to scan my mail/postfix-sasl maillog and block offending IPs at my internet-facing pf firewall. I do this because port 25 is often just the first port hit by bots. Recently I noticed that...

For a network aware display system, stability, bandwidth and flexibility could be considered more important than performance. Otherwise 90's DOS-style direct framebuffer access via Wayland compositors is fastest.

Niri, drop down terminal, system info with sxmo-wayout.

This is normal for interfaces that have been set to DHCP.

bokutin, I checked the emails I received when I created the Bugzilla account. They contain a contact email address in case of account problems. Try that contact. "If you have any issues regarding your account, please contact bugmeister@FreeBSD.org."

The behaviour you described is correct and documented in newsyslog: /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d By default each file in this directory ending in '.conf' and not beginning with '.' will be included by the...

Ideally what you should do is create *one* zfs storage pool (eventually a mirror of ada0 and ada1 but you can start with one) and then create zfs filesystems you want with zfs create (man zfs-create). No need to have separate partitions -...

And put that single zpool at the end of the disk, after swap. That way you can extend the partition later when you might copy the whole disk to a bigger one.

There is a slight misconception that must be addressed. The FreeBSD project is centrally managed by a team, while the ports tree is decentralized to several hundreds of maintainers. When a FreeBSD release is made, a new branch is created —...

And put that single zpool at the end of the disk, after swap. That way you can extend the partition later when you might copy the whole disk to a bigger one.

Not at all. On the contrary it's working perfectly well. The ports tree and all the dependencies of every port must remain consistent. Packages that fail to build are removed and if the port itself is not maintained properly and is outdated it is...

Don't do this. ZFS works quite different from what you might be used to. There's NO need for separate partitions (each would need to have a zpool on it). Just follow the default ZFS install. And you'll automatically end up with this...

The template has a disk definition, it creates the disk. Then just dd your raw image onto that VM's disk (zvol, image, whatever the template created). centos7 template: loader="uefi" graphics="yes" xhci_mouse="yes" cpu=1 memory=512M...

Check with htop(1) - in the UPDATE 1 as I wrote - I was able to get as low as 82 MB RAM :)

Not desktop, but Raspberry pi Zero 2 with 15.0.2 idle after installation: weberjn@zero2:~ $ top -b last pid: 3650; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 0+13:13:04 07:47:06 25 processes: 1 running, 24 sleeping CPU: 0.0% user...

I'm reusing this thread because I want to try to infuse a little positivity. Another of the reasons why FreeBSD makes me happy is the passion and commitment of the port maintainers and the developers. I sincerely admire all of them. They invest...

Just for the record, I moved to Belize because Trump won. And no, I am not going to get involved in the discussion of the politics of it. I just wanted to point out that some of us actually do what we say we are going to do.

I think the handbook is the best resource for new users.

Inventing terms is kind of easy. Having them catch on is kind of impossible. It happens when it happens. I would suggest "repack" from "repackaging."

Same problem here in Russia, it got stuck at a certain percent of download, and was "stalled". At least my wireguard server still works, so installing wireguard-tools locally helped to mitigate this. Posting this just to report that this happens...

I really don't know how to thank you. Thank you so much... I downloaded it and I'm now installing and configuring it.

I uploaded spoofdpi.pkg to my google drive, this is for FreeBSD 14.3. I hope you can download from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17gdIbk9s64igg4xzaTP8QDbr-cqN5WVw/view?usp=drive_link Try pkg add <pkgfile> # pkg info spoofdpi...

In those websites (they are not package mirrors, as previously established) there seems to be part of the FreeBSD base system in different formats, but I doubt that you can find the ports/packages there (they are probably too big). Anyway you can...

No force of law but market falsification. The EU kneels for the largest companies of the world. Having a local computer or free operating system for it would hurt them for losing forced advertising targets. It will stay getting rejected for being...

It's national law, not EU law, that prevents circumvention of digital barriers. These laws are bing forced on European countries by large trade agreements with the US that contain them among hundreds of details. Actually some activists hope that...

😆 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0KIkPp-Cd4

Another option might be (instead of buying another pc) would be to get a sata ssd and a sata -to-usb connector, dedicating that whole disk to FreeBSD and effectively using it as an external drive. I've done this myself. Just to add, it's much...

Unfortunately I'm at a point where I cannot acquire new hardware very easily. Right now my wife is really really sick, so my cash is pretty tied up these days. Ten years ago I probably would have assembled a budget PC just to experiment with...

Still waiting for any UI-base that does fast 2d framebuffer scaling. (not like xrandr) GPU manufacturers don't like that accessibility and avoid direct addressing because it makes modern graphics applications run fast enough on outdated hardware...

Sure, but XLibre has to match or be faster than current-Xorg or else why bother? :p (Wayland could also be option not considering performance)

X11Libre isn't about being "faster than Xorg." It is more likely an actively maintained archive of X11 that we are used to and like. in my understanding Speed is not necessarily an indicator of quality :P

Yes, btop is way more accurate than htop about memory usage. (even on Linux). The fact "what does used memory actually mean" is a not-existent term as far as i know. Not used for what? you know... point of view If free (not used at all) RAM is...

I have seen it on Windows 11 Pro. I have been deleting as much of the unwanted Windows apps (OneDrive, CoPilot, etc.) as I can.