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I'll give it a shot; apologies in advance if it gets long, apologies if some of the wording is not "exactly correct", apologies for leaving out things like SMP, multiple CPUs, scaling, etc because I'm trying to keep it simple. Every command you...

Issue vanished after a " make clean" and full rebuild.

This is true but individuals are more likely to show personal opinion than technical correctness and contain errors or information that's more outdated cause they never go back and update anything. At least the Handbook is overseen on some...

Building and installing are different topics. I've installed FreeBSD many times and now have developed my own method which consists of using Ventoy. Ventoy itself needs two partitions. The second one which stores all the Ventoy system files only...

What does one do when one asks AI what happens with some advice it gave and that's its answer?

This is true but individuals are more likely to show personal opinion than technical correctness and contain errors or information that's more outdated cause they never go back and update anything. At least the Handbook is overseen on some...

Hi balanga! Both the Handbook and Wisellama's post were helpful when I started self-compiling FreeBSD a few months ago. A simple step to save potential trouble when self-compiling might be to use a separate machine that can be easily wiped and...

Sometimes somebody's personal perspective explains things in a different way which is easier to follow than a guide provided by The Handbook. I often find a blog a useful supplement to official guides when I don't understand them or when certain...

that looks legit, but if the handbook is out-of-date that's a bug in the handbook and should be fixed

I wouldn't use information I find from third-party sites for FreeBSD unless I was completely out of other options. A lot of information is out of date and sometimes written by users who primarily use Linux or other UNIX systems. Sometimes they...

You mean Clippy?

Ohhhhhh boys!!!!! yes, I am excited! Why? Because I just ripped out Flutter’s newest rendering engine, Impeller(BSD-3). It’s written in C++, and I also pulled their latest Render List, converted the entire build system to CMake, and wired it up...

For those of you who play games or are into vfx, I’d love to collaborate and help get your projects running as smoothly as possible. If you’re willing to support my efforts, I’m fully committed to doing everything I can to make that happen. I...

Ohhhhhh boys!!!!! yes, I am excited! Why? Because I just ripped out Flutter’s newest rendering engine, Impeller(BSD-3). It’s written in C++, and I also pulled their latest Render List, converted the entire build system to CMake, and wired it up...

At this point, the package tool and ports system are working, and I have around 35 functional ports so far, with more in progress. Before I wipe /usr/local and replace it with a link pointing to /usr/ports/profile/current, I want to make sure I...

The only slightly annoying thing about this type of system is that changing anything even adding a single "." produces a different hash. That’s a good from a security standpoint, but it becomes annoying when you’re creating ports and need to make...

One of the problems I find with The Handbook, is that you never really know if it is uptodate with the the latest release. FreeBSD has been around since 1993, that's 33 years, so there will be thousands of guides and you never really know if you...

Actually, my eventual aim is to try and build every release of FreeBSD. At the end of this project, I may figure out how to build v1.0.

Definitively not. First "buildworld", then "buildkernel" (not the other way around), to provide up-to-date tools to build the kernel. The correct order to build from source is described in the FreeBSD handbook, chapter 26.6. Updating FreeBSD...

My laptop's unlocked BIOS has a setting under Memory to "Actively prevent Rowhammer"; I disable it :p I'm not too impressed with software trying to do stuff hardware does at lower-level; my hardware lets me disable safety, but apps want to force...

Fortunately, 100% isn't typically necessary, it just has to be good enough that the work to exploit it isn't profitable in most cases. And that can be accomplished using a series of different measures from hardening systems, to not paying ransoms...

FreeBSD should probably be the end goal for any computer user. But you should have specific needs to get there. The learning progression should probably be Windows -> Linux -> FreeBSD. Don't switch from Windows unless there's something you...

Yes, freebsd is good.

Firstly it is a pleasure to introduce myself to the community. I've been a long standing advocate of many things Open Source, and the after-life Unix community. I currently run a multi-purpose FreeBSD backbone server as part of my financial...

Definitively not. First "buildworld", then "buildkernel" (not the other way around), to provide up-to-date tools to build the kernel. The correct order to build from source is described in the FreeBSD handbook, chapter 26.6. Updating FreeBSD...

For those of you who play games or are into vfx, I’d love to collaborate and help get your projects running as smoothly as possible. If you’re willing to support my efforts, I’m fully committed to doing everything I can to make that happen. I...

My renderer is hybrid: Vulkan, OpenGL, or CPU can be selected per configuration depending on workload and hardware. The render path is retained mode with explicit control over frame submission, damage regions, and synchronization. For fullscreen...

That's a somewhat tougher question, it's all going to depend on what the purpose is. FreeBSD clearly isn't better on Sega Dreamcast than NetBSD is. Most of the time, the correct answer is to load whatever it is up in a VM and see. That should...

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...

It does. I'm not sure why OP is going with that page as the handbook page is the same information from what I can tell and probably easier to follow. I haven't personally bothered recompiling things in quite a while,, so I didn't realize that...

My renderer is hybrid: Vulkan, OpenGL, or CPU can be selected per configuration depending on workload and hardware. The render path is retained mode with explicit control over frame submission, damage regions, and synchronization. For fullscreen...

Looks good enough. It assumes a native reinstall. Use make installworld DESTDIR=<dir> to put everything somewhere else and not touch the host installation.

My renderer is hybrid: Vulkan, OpenGL, or CPU can be selected per configuration depending on workload and hardware. The render path is retained mode with explicit control over frame submission, damage regions, and synchronization. For fullscreen...

Meh, I create wild lines fine :p (I'd be interested in seeing more unique msbuild/clang use anywhere else) "%ProgramFiles%\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -S "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\src" -B "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build" -G...

Doesn't the Handbook cover this? At one time it was considered a right of passage to build from source.

Since LLMs get all their info from the internet, I wonder if the first major attack will be on them by evil forces feeding them false information. I wonder if the attack will be constructed using AI itself.

That's what I'd do! Cloudflare's implementation is cool: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/

I used once some very old web camera for this. It was very bad camera - a lot of noise. Just capture raw image, concatenate with timestamp (higher resolution as possible), hash it, and use it as the key to encrypt something (/dev/zero or...

I'm interested in the fastest performance for fullscreen games and lowest-latency everywhere. I found GNOME 48+ slower with default GSK_RENDERER=vulkan (DE + GTK apps like Text Edit all GPU-rendering) vs cairo not GPU accelerating. I get better...

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+13.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html https://www.schneier.com/academic/fortuna/

It's been a while since I did this, but that looks about right. If you're on ZFS, make sure to get a snapshot before installing anything. Don't go too crazy with optimization flags the first time you do it, you can always make customization on...

Thank you for the compliment. It’s not really a learning curve so much as a huge amount of work and figuring out how to work around the limitations of GPU support and tooling that come with developing on FreeBSD. Fortunately, I do have some help...

If it must be as random as possible, what about radio noise as input? Never tried anything related. but a wifi-controller that's able to show binary receiver noise that's entirely unpredictable would be useable. And a soundcard? Can we get highly...

If absolute trust is not an issue for seeding, I use the ANU's online Quantum Random Number Generator, which measures "the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum".alias -x anuentropy="curl -k...

I'm not at all familiarabou building FreeBSD from source although I may have tried it once or twice over the last ten years, but I think I would like to become more familiar with the process and am trying to follow a guide:-...

Actually, I would contend that 99% of humans only need a browser. It's perfectly feasible to do documents (a.k.a. Word), spreadsheets (a.k.a. Excel), and mail within a browser. Same with e-mail. The remaining 1% is gaming, graphics (not CPU!)...

I had a few old games working with Wine but its on the wrong level. Why can't Virtualbox or Qemu have the required virtual logic that enables Wine to do it? (different for every game because it depends on dll versions)

I think IMG's problem is that he has a too old NVidia card. And since we have no control of the binary driver...

I have 1.27 notes! It ran easy with Wine on 14.2 (15+ pkg32-old notes) -opengl probably could be used with MESA_OVERRIDE Zink for Vulkan (if OGL by itself might be non-ideal) D3D mode was unstable on Intel UHD 630 (not sure a benefit over OGL...

Nowadays it doesn't really matter if Git supports Windows, because every Windows comes shipped with WSL.