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This is a new package tool and ports system I’m working on. I started building it because I needed a specific set of packages that aren’t available in the FreeBSD ports tree, and one of the core libraries I rely on, skia is packaged incorrectly...

I can run random ollama models on my AMD laptop with integrated GPU just fine. It's just a little slow. The trick is to get CUDA to run for Linuxulator programs. Some managed.

Thank you for the kind words, would you like to be a beta tester?

Ahh thank you so much, I wish my teen children thought I was really cool still!! I hear china has really good food. Yes freebsd is very interesting, I really like how its one unified core system instead of various parts put together to build a os...

The default visual style reflects what "I" can comfortably design while still finding it visually pleasing, but the UI is fully theme-able. The toolkit is designed around a core engine that provides primitive building blocks, images, text...

You are right, and I am fully aware of that, but looking at what this thread is about in its very core, I didn't want to dive into details too deep. My main intension here were to convince the OP - build trust in - BU are not very important, but...

Electron ports require too much patience and power to maintain I think. Electron is such a beast that my machine could build it in over 10 hours and even maybe not. Also I don't know how to include the npm dependencies into the port, I guess you...

misc/claude-code? Don't know if it contains everything you need, but it should definitely get you going.

It’s built from scratch using wlroots, Vulkan, Skia https://skia.org/docs/ , and Yoga https://github.com/facebook/yoga.

Regarding your first observation. The Foundation has around 20 contractors with expertise in specific areas that fill critical gaps that volunteers aren't able to fill. So, you'll see in the pie chart on the budget page that over 66% (going by...

That would be the "proper" way, yes. Using src.conf you can disable/remove various parts of the base OS, then building your own custom pkgbase packages.

What MTA does it use? You might have a /etc/newsyslog.conf entry and another in /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ (intended for some other MTA) and they're both trying to manage /var/log/maillog.

Nothing special, just installing Electron from ports, then downloading the last release of Joplin from their Github (sources). Then I was following the procedure that I found here solving the problems with npm packages (OK, I used yarn and not...

Interestingly, "Joplin" is the name of the main town near where I grew up. No relation to the musician Scott Joplin, from whom this app is named. The name alone, and the fact that people have been able to get it running on FreeBSD has piqued my...

Yes, the great news since Podman and OCI containers is now we can release FreeBSD based containers, not Linux anymore.

My use for locking packages is a little different. Against the advise of most, I do mix packages and ports, mainly to get rid of pulseaudio in some of the multimedia programs I use, This is a scenario that poudriere is designed to address, and I...

Thanks for the question. I'm struggling to understand the whole Linux containers on FreeBSD myself. I was going to start a thread--and I probably still should--but I'll sit and watch this one.

Hello everyone! My name is Santiago and ever since I first tried Arch Linux when it came out with "FreeBSD-style rc scripts" and other "FreeBSD-style" things I've always wondered what the fuss was about. Now, I started a company with my wife...

If you really want i386 support, it is tier 1 in NetBSD. I've never used it though, so I don't know if I can reccomend it.

I got forced to run FreeBSD after my Thinkpad started to crash with Linux and Windows. Legitimately Linux and Windows will no longer boot or run on my Thinkpad without eventually hanging my entire computer. So after a failed install with HaikuOS...

I'm a boy from China who is 14 years old,I used to use Windows11 and Gnu/Linux. I had tried many Linux Distros. It's a big waste of my time and I even installed Gentoo with full disk encryption. Ops! I had also tried OpenBSD , It's simple and...

Greetings from Indonesia. Sorry, it took me so long to introduce myself here. I am just a low-life webdev, got myself a taste of UNIX-like OS back in around '99 when I played around with Slackware on my Pentium machine. Have to switch to Windows...

It's part of the base OS, the "version" of the shell is linked to the version of the OS. https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/ shell/bash does have this feature (/dev/tcp/....), not /bin/sh.

biggsy Thanks for the tip, it helped! As it turns out, in branch 15, this service has been renamed and is now called blocklistd.

Thank you all. We are evaluating OCI containers and they look neat from the user point of view, you just pull the container and start on a new server, the same for updates. But before jumping in, is there a case in favor of jails against containers?.

I like the technical approach of this project. I dislike the visuals, heavily. Don't take it as a criticism, of course aesthetics is subjective. But keep in mind that a lot of people are running away from the so called flat interfaces and rounded...

Joplin is an open source alternative to Evernote. It can be used with on-premise backend or with their own cloud storage. The killer-feature for me is the possibility to use Nextcloud as a backend (only as a backend, without a possibility to edit...

What about textproc/dict (though you probably know of that one and I'm probably missing something)

Trying mate

Hello, I am observing strange newsyslog behavior inside a jail on FreeBSD 14.3. It looks as if log rotation happens twice at midnight, resulting in an additional rotated file that contains only two log lines. Current log files: -rw-r-----...

Not in particullar but I'm interested in having a controllable 2d display show fast pixel graphics on all working resolutions while not depending on anything else for graphics. Problem is that GPU manufacturers are doing everything to prevent...

Hi Emrion Thanks you, I have workaround with REPOS_DIR environment variable as follows # setenv REPOS_DIR "/tmp" Create /tmp/barfoo.conf with follows content. BARFOO_PKG: { url: "file://[WORK_FINE_REPOS]", enabled: yes } Execute # pkg...

Eurythmics - "Sex Crime" from the movie "1984"

In fact, you are using pkg, not pkg. The only use of this last is to bootstrap pkg. And pkg (as well as his brother pkg-static) is ignoring PACKAGESITE as stated here: pkg.conf

Well wlroots https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/ which is the c library we use to build the compositor, it does in fact support xwayland which is the protocol for running xorg programs on wayland compositors, now I haven't tested that...

Hi All I'm trying to use pkg with local repository. And need change repository dynamically working for jail I had saw in pkg section CONFIGURATION url Refer to PACKAGESITE in "ENVIRONMENT" My work fine configure of repository...

The system takes care of a graphical screen without any X-server running but it does run Xorg programs on it?

For the past 14 years, I’ve been teaching myself how to build a GUI toolkit in C++. My dream has always been to be the first to bring a bsd licensed gui toolkit and desktop environment to freebsd built from scratch. I was even featured on...

For the past 14 years, I’ve been teaching myself how to build a GUI toolkit in C++. My dream has always been to be the first to bring a bsd licensed gui toolkit and desktop environment to freebsd built from scratch. I was even featured on...

Many Acer laptops from the past few years make use of Quanta HD Webcam. Quick and dirty way to make webcam work : - inside the amazing port webcamd , in the linux media tree (currently pegged at 5.17) , add the missing usb device id structs in...

vulpine Define "it" and no it doesn't.

For the past 14 years, I’ve been teaching myself how to build a GUI toolkit in C++. My dream has always been to be the first to bring a bsd licensed gui toolkit and desktop environment to freebsd built from scratch. I was even featured on...

Backup is important, but having some method of identifying corruption is also important. It's the main reason that I like ZFS as scrubbing it can identify the damage, and if it's a redundant set up repair it. Otherwise, I'll use par2 to create...

For the past 14 years, I’ve been teaching myself how to build a GUI toolkit in C++. My dream has always been to be the first to bring a bsd licensed gui toolkit and desktop environment to freebsd built from scratch. I was even featured on...

For the past 14 years, I’ve been teaching myself how to build a GUI toolkit in C++. My dream has always been to be the first to bring a bsd licensed gui toolkit and desktop environment to freebsd built from scratch. I was even featured on...

Yes, IIRC, I've had Win XP running in both VBox and Qemu. I haven't gotten around to trying it under Bhyve. As long as the VM shows something that the OS thinks is a video card compatible of displaying the output, things should be fine.

one of our college elders was a fan of XML and XML schema and thus XSLT. We once called it "cactus-fucking haskell" (because of all the pointy brackets) to his face and he thought that was hilarious.

It most definitely does work - for decades. Understand that was a toy example. Your concern of schema lock-in is valid but a loose schema can also be a problem. Enforcing a schema is the first line of defense against mal-formed data. Someone's...

Ah! A sister from another mother.

Regarding your first observation. The Foundation has around 20 contractors with expertise in specific areas that fill critical gaps that volunteers aren't able to fill. So, you'll see in the pie chart on the budget page that over 66% (going by...