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Please forgive a small digression, but behind everything a human creates, understands, and uses — even in the world of computers — there is always a quiet reflection of emotion. Lately, discussions often appear suggesting that BSD is meant for...

I don't hide it. If you leave your mouse pointer on the big circled A, amigo mío, you'll see I'm 53. :)

You’re still arguing from a premise I don’t accept. I am not required to be affiliated with the FreeBSD Foundation, nor to design around the historical constraints of ports/pkg, in order to build an alternative system. That premise alone is...

I don't see how that general quote affects the fact that you're developing a replacement/alternative for a system component while not being in sync or affiliated with FreeBSD Foundation and not taking into the account the base design of FreeBSD...

How much control do we have over dhcp in bhyve? Can I make it pass PXE options?

“BSD has always been about research, experimentation, and pushing systems forward.” — Marshall Kirk McKusick, BSD architect and longtime FreeBSD contributor

+1 This place and Hacker News are the only two social media-ish places I visit. And I only scan the headlines on HN. Same with national and local news and any radio and TV. If it doesn't affect me, I don't read it. And my mind has been so much...

This is also the year of FreeBSD on the desktop!

Please forgive a small digression, but behind everything a human creates, understands, and uses — even in the world of computers — there is always a quiet reflection of emotion. Lately, discussions often appear suggesting that BSD is meant for...

I am perfectly serious. FreeBSD is not for the every day person who has no interest in studying how the system works to install a desktop and make config files to run it as he pleases. One has to be the type of person who wants to do these things...

Should I expect something like this to work? PACKAGESITE=http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/packages/ echo $PACKAGESITE pkg_add misc/mc-4.7.5.5_1.tbz

Tip: if you are in a hurry, never use email. the only guarantee with email is that if it is not delivered in seven days, the delivery fails... (people have been accustomed to "instantly everything" on the internet - they forget that the email...

I think he was poking fun at himself. Notice his byline.

I read somewhere that you need to be a serious computer enthusiast to run FreeBSD so I don't think it would be right for the OP.

There is no obligation, but thanks for the feedback. Putting this to the community is certainly helpful in rounding off some of the edges. Thanks

Precisely, no, but something look alike. Unlike python, different versions of cython conflicts each other. As far as I know, switching default cython to cython3 was planned, and in preparation of it, lang/cython0 that is equivalent with previous...

Giving it a try in my VM. I access my VM via RDP. I downloaded and compiled the program from my local user profile, but it didn't want to run from startwm.sh. I moved the cwm2.bin file to /usr/local/bin, and changed ownership to root:wheel...

Giving it a try in my VM. I access my VM via RDP. I downloaded and compiled the program from my local user profile, but it didn't want to run from startwm.sh. I moved the cwm2.bin file to /usr/local/bin, and changed ownership to root:wheel...

Assuming I have set PACKAGESITE to http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/packages/ how do I install mc? do I need to provide the precise package name, ie...

That works, were you able to export whatever bookmarks and other personal information you had from Firefox? At any rate, it's worth just deleting the entire set of firefox directories in your home directory and do a force reinstall of everything...

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That works, were you able to export whatever bookmarks and other personal information you had from Firefox? At any rate, it's worth just deleting the entire set of firefox directories in your home directory and do a force reinstall of everything...

Of course they're going to say that, they're Linux users. You don't need to be a serious enthusiast to run FreeBSD, the community skews that way primarily because there isn't much awareness outside of that group that it even exists. When I...

I generally don't like memes, but this one is spot on. I'm roaring with laughter.

FreeBSD allows that feature and as policy FreeBSD never makes fat tools, it uses Unix ways, right tool for the right job. Yes the package manager could solve the link environment and manage symlinks ala "update-alternatives" so you can...

Yes, unfortunately, pkg upgrade -f didn’t help either. For now, I think I'll just stick with Chromium, one way or another. Thanks for your time and the helpful suggestion.

If pkg upgrade -f does not correct the issue, I don't think a fresh install would fix anything. But this is why I have "system disks" and "data disks" so I can separate my home directories and pure data from the system. Makes it a lot easier to...

No, I cannot agree with any of that but I'm not going to dissect and reply piecewise. My issue is calling the tool "pkg" and somewhat advertise it as the pkg alternative. That's just semantics, not important, and I support your efforts. Here I...

The fix has been committed, so very soon we should all be able to install tint2 by pkg on CURRENT.

Would be more fun with official CUDA support.

Please post an example picture.

I don't understand the goal. Something must happen while obscured to the operator? Why do "agents" need to control everything somehow more than a logged in root? All can be done by only a program, right?

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A start and end date of bigger wholes of tasks or features in a software project.

text How to draw a histogram or a timeline easily. Graphical way is preferred or some simple text file. I wanted something simple to run in FreeBSD. I'll be working with it a time and would like to trust only the workstation.

Rust does not eliminate memory-related bugs in a kernel context; it merely shifts where and how they occur. The moment Rust code interacts with existing C kernel infrastructure through FFI, shared data structures, or unsafe blocks the language’s...

what kind of graphics, exactly? Numerical or text? Can you post an example?

If Firefox was affected by a power-off bad enough to affect forks and reinstalls of it, I doubt it's the only thing on the whole OS broken (I'd do the reinstall :p)

Given things like rowhammer, not even the hardware is too sure what memory it is to touch and which not. We can make stuff hard and harder, but 100% is off the menu.

You said you used fsck to repair filesystems? To rule out any potential permissions, maybe: cd /home chown -R username:groupname homedirectory to walk through your home directory and set all the files and subdirectories as owned by you.

A friend of mine said: "Firefox is completely corrupted, maybe something like a bad sector or similar... You'll have to reinstall the operating system again. But honestly, I don't have enough time for that because it would be way too...

Thanks... I just opened Firefox again, and it closed immediately. I got these errors: $ firefox: console.warn: BackupService: "There was an error while trying to get the Document's directory" [Exception... "Component returned failure code...

Is this why I have to remove py311-cython3 manually because it conflcts with another branch? I don't remember exact details but a Firefox build stops if it exists. It's installed as dependency of something else. I added the "make deinstall " for...

I'm beyond what I can help with (this is where a coredump and source code in a debugger becomes necessary), but that seems like something someone could help with.

I tried these steps, but it still crashes. I remember the main error I kept seeing in the terminal was: Segmentation fault (core dumped) It just happened again. After about a minute of browsing and installing an extension in Firefox, it closed...

hw.snd.default_unit merely changes whatever device /dev/dsp points to. If you paid enough attention to virtual_oss, you might have noticed that -d dsp sets hw.snd.basename_clone=0, removes normal /dev/dsp and replaces it with /dev/dsp controlled...

shkhln, you are correct, it is not needed to change default audio device using: I can use: And it works like a charm. In the other hand when I start virtual_oss service I can see: And -d parameter only indicates the device name: And nothing...

The fact that all Firefox based browsers have the same/similar issue imply a library used. Are you starting it from a term window or clicking on a menu item? Try from a term window, there may be a breadcrumb somewhere. also from a term window...

First off, there's no need for an audio daemon. FreeBSD's OSS implementation can mix multiple clients without any additional software involved. Still it uses the classic OSS interface (consisting of devices like /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer). This...