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In water polo I root for Atlètic-Barceloneta.

Do you want to change that? By the time you have Netflix running on FreeBSD you will have more of a clue about computers - whether you want to or not.

To be fair, if your main use-case is Youtube and Libreoffice, I would keep with Windows. Likely your machine provides an OEM license for it anyway. Then netflix and spotify are also first-class supported.

Asking the other way round: is which way to you want your computing experience to improve?

Thank you just the same. The wiki link I hadn't seen before. The how-to I had just glanced at previously. I'll study both now. I suppose all this can change when FreeBSD v16.0 is released. Thanks again!

I want the Air Force to compete.

Are you online? I think it takes less than 20 commands to create a minimal Xorg with Libreoffice and firefox on a common 64-bit PC. Getting a printer working may take some time, depending on the printer.

From a technical standpoint FreeBSD is superior in design, the only issues is going to be hardware support, and the fact that most software is written specifically for Linux which makes things a peta. Youtube(most of it should be fine)...

Or handegg?

Well, the member of this forum obviously think FreeBSD is good. Libreoffice and Youtube aren't a problem.

If you create a file in the mounted nfs directory in OpenBSD, it can only be very small, otherwise the nfs-client (and its mount point) gets unrespopnsive? I assume it's not the server. If any remote process can make a server hang we have a...

Why >1K files? And you're copying to a client? I think you need to be more specific about the situation.

The maintainer has submitted the fix. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=293022 It may take time for it to committed.

My Brother MFC (laser) works without any Brother drivers. I use the everywhere driver--not only on FreeBSD but also tested on several Linux distributions.

I only see this message now, after I had tried with a later txg :( I have found that post that gave me hope too https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/the-pool-metadata-is-corrupted-how-to-get-your-data-out-of-the-corrupted-zpool.94480/post-670906 ...

As for the halftime show, there's a story behind that. In Living Color, one year, put on an episode to go on during the halftime show, which at the time was a marching band and other less interesting stuff. They had a timer on screen so viewers...

WARNING 1: Seeing that you have received no response in more than 72 hours, with nothing but good intentions in my heart, especially helping you, I outsourced your case to a non-subject expert-in-training and below the horizontal line is what it...

The command above failed with an IO error; so I re-ran with the txg 43683330 that showed with the command It's been 5 days and it's still going with all disks showing 100% activity (as shown by gstat -a) Is there a way to check the progress of...

I don't know Mac. On Windows, WASAPI can be used to instantiate vdevs from userspace. And then that vdev can be connected to the audio server via tooling, e.g. for ASIO systems, ASIO4ALL driver. Windows is quite OK in this regard and apart from...

Don't buy off ebay, get re-certified from amazon, you can get there old networking equipment for cheap, and its generally reliable I have never had any issues I buy older stuff then resell with FreeBSD preinstalled and configured.

Just a word of advise running a rack server isn't cheap, I have a HP Proliant DL360P Gen8 and a HP 2920 Switch and its costing me around $100 a month in electricity, And they are loud!!! I would just get something like a TP-Link ER605

LOL - No :-). I use Ubuntu as my main desktop as well. Ubuntu always software updates reliably, especially the NVIDIA graphic card drivers, and all my Steam and Wine games work perfectly on it. As you pointed out - "It's boring" :-)... The...

All I know is one of those guys has to carry that pumpkin from one end of that cow pasture to another without gettin' knocked down or steppin' in somethin'. --Andy Griffith

How would I go about building FreeBSD 9.0 i386 in a jail?

Assuming you got it installed with cups, there's a print test page option. Click the printer, and there will be, to the left a Maintenance option. Click the drop down arrow and there's an option to print a test page.

should be a test-page button from the web interface. are you getting any, like, meaningful errors? have you tried any amount of reading the documentation or looking at the web interface?

Never seen American Football match in my whole life. Maximum 30 seconds. Never heard of the teams. :). View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pDKNhRvqJ4s

Patriotic sea hawks.

yes it's called CETZ

The Advantech rackmount network appliance might be too much overkill (in terms of capabilities) for my needs. I currently have a HUNSN NFA-RS42 that I'm happy with. However I need a second unit, but they are always sold out every time I am...

Well, at least itis trivial to route all output through a jack pluin or a plugin container such as a DAW.. For macOS you have to buy special software to do it. Dunno about winnoze. Given that I don't see the need to go kernel.

What OP describes is a typical task of a LV2 audio plugin. But then applications are limited to LV2 hosts and Jack clients. In order to connect that to standard audio programs again virtual_oss is needed to provide a virtual cuse device that...

I did not know that would still work with ZFS. Cool! I would do that with all my installs.

Thank you very much for the references and the explanation! I will explore!

Yes. cuse(3) is used to create DSP character devices from userspace. The OSS sound system under FreeBSD exposes play/rec devices through /dev/dsp entries which are standard Unix character devices, hence standard Unix file stuff is used to...

Hah, you know, I got the very idea about writing such program because in the last few days I've been exploring and debugging the mixer subsystem, which includes mixer -> mixer (libmixer) -> /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pcm/mixer.c (generic mixer...

You probably want to start out studying the in-kernel mixer if you really want to stay in kernel space and use that as a template.

Ok Beastie7 you made me laugh. Or at least CATM. (Chuckle Audibly To Myself)

Rootin for the New Seattle Patrihawks. Cause ‘Murica.

Assuming you got it installed with cups, there's a print test page option. Click the printer, and there will be, to the left a Maintenance option. Click the drop down arrow and there's an option to print a test page.

Is there any way to try and print a test page? The printer has not been used for a long time and I don't know what the state of the ink is like. Maybe I should take it to a cartridge shop and someone may be able to tell me if it works if I buy...

Creating a custom pkgbase kernel package alone is unsupported, currently. There are plans to add support for this. A custom pkgbase kernel package can be created, but it requires "buildworld" and other steps, unnecessarily IMHO. Aside from that...

I had lpadmin -p myprinter.

While the problem is unclear to me, what I at least would make sure is that the printer shows up as selectable printer in the cupsd web-interface, and the file /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf exists after finishing the "add printer"...

There is supposed to be a USB option. but it doesn't come up when I run lpinfo -v. Should it?

/usr/local/bin/lp /etc/rc.conf:- Looks like I haven't set it up properly

Ok, the board arrived, but the cable I ordered is not the one I need.... I need an SFF-8643 on the board side, and an SFF-8087 mini sas on the server side. Can anyone help me find one of those in Amazon/Ebay, I searched a lot and wasn't able to...

once you set up the printer, /usr/local/bin/lp file.txt will send it to your default printer.

Not complete but with get you started. Others can fill the gaps. 1. pkg install cups hplip 2. enable CUPS in /etc/rc.conf cupsd_enable="YES" 3. service cupsd start 4. check dmesg or run lpinfo -v to confirm your host recognizes the USB...

Molina is returning as a special assistant for the Cardinals. We're all thrilled about it. I've pretty much quit watching the NFL.