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People said the same thing about Xlibre. Considering that this has only been a few days, I wouldn't necessarily assume that there won't be a Windows version at some point.

I'm sorry

More like PACKAGESITE=http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/packages/All/ pkg_add -r mc, IIRC. -r is for fetching (remotely) from the ftp. You provide the full path, including the .tbz extension only...

Hello, I have an RTL9210B-CG device: Feb 10 05:47:31 watcher kernel: ugen0.4: <Realtek RTL9210B-CG> at usbus0 Feb 10 05:47:31 watcher kernel: umass0 on uhub1 Feb 10 05:47:31 watcher kernel: umass0: <Realtek RTL9210B-CG, class 0/0, rev...

Lock realistic Git use (and beyond) to "modern" computers for telemetry, but slow-boil style :p If they were serious, there'd be a Windows version too

And now there seems to be a fork that removes the rusty bits. https://github.com/Libre-WD-40/ LOL, I still don't really get what the point is of using Rust for this particular use when so many platforms that people use don't have a working...

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...

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Discord might require a face scan or ID next month: https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1r057xx/discord_will_require_a_face_scan_or_id_for_full/...

Tech industries are run on buzzwords. If FreeBSD had a new buzzword to replace traditional words more industries would adopt it. Sales run on buzzwords and fud so you gotta give those sales people something to work with. Call saving data to disk...

Find an inexpensive Arm64 board to play with, like the Raspberry 500, or Raspberry 400 Keyboard model. Install FreeBSD.org/where find the RPI image and write the image into a microSD card or USB flash disk drive stick, to boot FreeBSD...

License. Always interesting always confusing. My opinions/understanding/very simplified: BSD has always been (very simplified) you can take this modify it sell it but there is no support GPL/LGPL has always been (again very very simplified)...

Note for future explorers: client-side window drop shadows are not the way!!! Seriously not the wayyyyyy. Drop shadows belong in the compositor. Doing them client-side leads to inconsistent geometry, broken hit-testing, and all kinds of subtle...

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Is this one of those "Dangerously Dedicated" disks? Does it have all the required boot code to actually boot? A proper bootstrap in the MBR in the portion before the partition table, a bootloader and something to boot (i.e. a kernel).

More like PACKAGESITE=http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/packages/All/ pkg_add -r mc, IIRC. -r is for fetching (remotely) from the ftp. You provide the full path, including the .tbz extension only...

At this point, if you've successfully checked the filesystem consistency, reinstalled all your packages and recreated Firefox's profile, I'd seriously start suspecting disk damage. If I were you I'd do a backup of anything of value ASAP and run a...

I wish I was only 53! ;)

This is a pretty fundamental issue at hand. I expect that this won't be the only fork.

Same here — 53 as well 🙂 Welcome to the 53 club!

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.