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Maybe the underlying problem in comp sci is that the focus has changed in newer generations from creating languages that encourage creativity, to restrictive languages that chase the latest "best programming paradigm", whatever that paradigm of...

That's not a problem. It's a feature.;)

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

I'm going to mark this solved. Those of you who use tint2 have probably noticed it's been updated to 2.17.

Well, diff3 was actually a whoopy to replace. The problem is solves is difficult and some serious comp-sci is involved.

16-current just replaced GNU diff3 with a BSD version. The only piece of GPLed software left in FreeBSD is now dialog/libdialog.

16-current just replaced GNU diff3 with a BSD version. The only piece of GPLed software left in FreeBSD is now dialog/libdialog.

I'm going to mark this solved. Those of you who use tint2 have probably noticed it's been updated to 2.17.

I wonder when the scary admin will appear out of the shadows and send this thread to off-topic.

I have a note for my wiki working best on Firefox :p (it's legit for Chrome not plaintext copy/pasting) I kind-of like the idea of advertising my coolness to anyone paying attention in logs :cool: (I like to think my settings don't allow blatant...

There is a slight quirk here with inheritance. virtual void Employee::jump(); void Employee::jump(float _height); // Manager inherits Employee void Manager::jump(); You can't now do: Manager m; m.jump(9.0f); Weird huh? When a derived class...

Function parameter overloading takes care of the following API syntax struct user * find_by_name(const char *name) struct user * find_by_id(unsigned id) into user * find(const char *name) user * find(unsigned id) I think the way GCC...

From what I understand of the issue that was fixed (FreeBSD-EN-25:10.zfs), the problem was not in the encryption engine itself, but in the handling of non-raw send streams for encrypted datasets. In other words, the AES-GCM encryption layer was...

So you think those messages get recorded in /var/log ?? That was the obvious place to look.

No, function overloading by parameter type is not polymorphism. Polymorphism is when the same function (with the same parameters) is implemented different in different derived classes. For example: The base class Animal has a function...

That's not a problem. It's a feature.;)

No, those messages are not written to dmesg. The messages you see during the very early boot phase (loader, BTX, and early kernel initialization) are printed directly to the console before the kernel message buffer is initialized. Because of...

I really think this thread can help if the OP tells us what is "needed". That's kind of the starting point. They talk about this on a server: my experience with servers is "I want to have a couple terminal windows open so I can compare, maybe...

Thanks gatekeeper for porting 86Box. I used to build/run it manually but before writing this tutorial :)

Nice :-) What a great tutorial! You might also want to check out here: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAcaQiq14yw It includes configuration of X, and also configuration of LAN. Since this video, I ported 86Box to FreeBSD so that you can...

Do the messages which are highlighted during the boot process get written anywhere? I'm talking about messages such as start FB_INFO and the following block. dmesg does not show such messages. Is there some way to get them recorded?

It would be illegal in most places because gambling can't require skills or invisible knowledge.

Normal PC, normal PC screen, and serial based input controller. One of machines that evokes great memories from college days : MP3 jukebox + quizzes and various games, coin operated. It actually had a standard ATX PC case inside.

4:06 he's using Firefox! I want to know more about that machine too; the inside looks clean, and FreeBSD's choice looks intentional. I tried searching random words on front like "spielstelle" but that might be a generic word I researched a...

Hi, I noticed that OpenRocket (https://openrocket.info/) is currently not available in the FreeBSD ports tree. OpenRocket is an actively supported open source Java application for rocketry model design and flight simulation. I have created a...

As I remember, that flang option in clang was removed from defaults because the build happens to use 10+GB memory per process, so when you build with all cpus, most of the machines will get into oom-killing, and obviousely people complained...

I have been to a casino only once in my life, when a friend who goes to them told me he got some patterns going on in some card game, hi lo thing. I tried to reason to him and say all those machines are preset so house wins, there are no patterns...

Since FreeBSD is based on Clang that is part of llvm project, I was wondering which Fortran compiler to use. Ideally, it would be nice to use Flang to avoid installing another C compiler to get gfortran if possible. By searching through forum, I...

Personally I'm interested in getting a Unix CLI on my phone again. Sadly termux is defunct on Pixel phones for a bunch of releases already.

Hello! When watching a documentary, I noticed that this gambling machine of the early 2000s uses FreeBSD. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFJGBL4uQiQ minute 3:28 A short sequence of the inside is shown, but it is not possible to see the...

Probasbly easy to find if you know the brand and model. I think it's just a dated PC that controls the game system using a serial cable.

Your avatar looks like the myspace guy if you look quick lol

You would not kload it. Once it's installed if you run startx, then X should start. You might be better off with vm-bhyve, which automates some of it. Then you could use a template like loader="uefi" graphics="yes" xhci_mouse="yes" cpu=1...

The Wine people sure are determined.

No, not exactly. Wine reconciliates two completely incompatible OSes. Linuxulator is one of many Unix-on-Unix compatibility layers. Early FreeBSD had System V Release 4 compatibility as far as I remember. Linux also had a number of...

I'm unable to get the hang of the MOC the console audio player. When I start mocp, I get a directory listing on the left panel but none of the cursor keys work. Neither does TAB or ENTER. Looks like I'm missing something basic. Any ideas?

This week-end, I installed FreeBSD on one of my homelabs and tried to run llama.cpp inferences on it. TL;DR: Almost there! Actually, with recent GPU, it may already be usable. My Hardware I have two homelabs with strictly identical hardware so...

Let us know how it goes. It has been some time since somebody had CUDA running through the Linuxulator. Good thinking about Vulkan instead of CUDA. I'll have to try that.

Try a different approach: install and start X.org, then go to another console and start the programs you would like to have on screen all tthe time backgrounded. I have only X.org and openbox with a keyboard-oriented configuration file. No icons...

Host needs to be running the Xserver. Keep in mind X11 applications are clients, they connect to the Xserver. So in order for X11 applications to run through X forwarding, the host (from where you are running ssh -X ...) has to have the Xserver...

MG if you saw the COBOL jokes earlier, function overloading is very much the opposite. Consider the overloaded operator + that works on integers of different sizes both signed and unsigned, and floats, and doubles. If you've ever added two...

Talk about off topic. Surely there must be a forum around that would have more people knowledgeable about that.

Sorry, thought it said VirtualBox. In any case, it'll work with bhyve but you must UEFI boot the VM and enable the graphics/VNC console. Then you can use the scfb video driver for Xorg.

Reading this thread as C++ noob, isn't it supposed to be that way because of OOP polymorphism support? That was long ago for me. I never used it because it kind of targets group projects but for only 1 person, it's too much irrelevant code and...

It shouldn't be necessary. I see from another post that you're not using vm-bhyve, which is all I'm familiar with, but at any rate, to get X running on a FreeBSD VM, I install xorg-server, xf86-input-libinput, xf86-video-scfb xinit (which...

I'm in the market for a new phone, following this thread with interest.

What you want is called xdmcp, to be able to login directly on a login manager that use Xorg and that support this protocol.

termux should do.

Can you try with a non-root user?

I started off with xfce4 when I first started with FreeBSD because it seemed to be the easiest to install, but after a few years I found that it provided many things I didn't want or need and eventually decided on lxde which is much simpler and...