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The syntax of ZFS "currdev" (or "rootdev") is currdev=zfs:dataset:. loader_simp currdev Selects the default device to loader the kernel from. The syntax is: loader_device: or...

Sure, you can keep it that way. Many 3rd party packages have a post-install messages. The specific configuration with PS2 mice is explained in the post-install message of x11-servers/xorg-server (which you may have found yourself). To read...

Because people believe what they wanna believe. It's their business. Your business is to create the best environment possible for yourself.

Hi all, Recently, I explained why I preferred FreeBSD to Systemd/Linux on a forum. But I received some particularly unpleasant feedback. I don't understand these people's motivations. Why are they attacking my freedom like this? FreeBSD has...

Does a /dev/psm0 device exist? Also check dmesg | grep psm, you should see the psm driver attaching.

To be clear: you want two windows (not panes) [1] opened, each window split in two, right? Example: open two windows, split each horizontally: #!/bin/sh tmux new-session -s test -d tmux splitw -h tmux neww tmux splitw -h tmux attach-session -d...

At least one person, you 😁 Depends. How many updates are they pushing out? A lot of the times its as simple as changing the DISTVERSION and updating the distfile.

Make sure it's connected when you turn on the machine. Most PS/2 ports on modern systems are disabled if nothing's connected to it when the system is powered up.

Look at the date, it's 17 years old.

Yes and no. Yes it enables the mouse for the console, but it also creates a virtual sysmouse device Xorg picks up.

We are not scared easily. But I can imagine what the comments were like. As to your question about the motivation, do you know about Stockholm Syndrome? That can explain an awful lot, together with the sunken cost syndrome.

HAL has been deprecated a really long time ago. sysrc -x hald_enable For PS/2 mice you need to enable moused (USB mice load this dynamically): sysrc moused_enable="YES"

No need to apologise

You can now try the SDK using the file manager demo on Fedora 43. FreeBSD support isn’t ready yet. Fedora 43 https://pub-76e7d0ec3e854bfd997b5191da1aac77.r2.dev/file_manager.tar.xz Install dependence sudo dnf install libcxx libcxxabi

Nope, two separate land grant universities. Iowa is known for healthcare and other humanities. Iowa State is more engineering and other related STEM majors. What’s interesting though is greek life is a bit more prevalent in Iowa State’s culture...

Hi SirDice pkg info courier-imap show as follows courier-imap-5.3.2_1,2 Name : courier-imap Version : 5.3.2_1,2 Installed on : Fri Feb 20 02:29:13 2026 CST Origin : mail/courier-imap Architecture : FreeBSD:15:amd64...

Doesn't appear to be registered as a dependency. Odd, but it can sometimes happen if the port has a bug. Check a few other things, pkg info courier-imap should show the options the package was built with.

I don't have an answer off the top of my head. The fonts may not be there or they may but not catalogued in a font alias file. You can do that too with FreeBSD but you need to add them to your font path. Which BTW reminds me, what is your font...

It's not necessarily that they care about the OS, but they only actively support certain configurations. They generally do not want to spend resources tracking down errors that only occur on obscure setups. Having an obscure OS increases the...

Yeah I'd expect it from mainstream video streaming services, but what are other websites doing? I think it's more than bank websites doing it and their "regulations", but I'd figure in bank's cases they should appreciate me using a more secure OS...

http://localhost:631/printers/HP_OfficeJet_Pro_8020 I have my wife's laptop which is printing... :p

I only have the one system, which was moved from Linux to FreeBSD yesterday or the day before. Running curl -I https://www.scottro.net/mutt.html (to choose a random page) gave me last-modified: Tue, 27 Jan (snipped the rest of it, that...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxx-FopmdFE&list=RDjxx-FopmdFE&start_radio=1

What mainstream websites today do something that wild? I'd figure if it's Flash player; if the plugin doesn't exist you just don't see the window (can have a plaintext link leading to a help page), and anyone not using Windows can probably...

How does that play with ~/.ssh/authorized_keys?

"...to talk to his local computer and get all the info he needs for everyday life" That was the dream then and is still viable today! Why's everyone giving free-reign to other's cloud providers?

Finally after 12 days I received the SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 (in Amazon 10Gtek SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 12G Internal Mini SAS HD Cable, with Sideband, for NVMe Backplane/RAID Card, Hot-Swap & SATA Compatibility, 100-Ohm, 1-m(3.3ft), 2 Pack). And I was...

My question is why websites even need to know which operating system the user is using.

Can you see if Last-Modified is in the http header for both systems?

Oh, I should have read the thread first. Sorry about misunderstanding. tmux(1) lists commands you may run, e.g. tmux split-window, etc. Most of the commands (if not all) take a target-pane flag -t, with a format approximately like this...

I don't use bash

Could it be something like atime/relatime Linux not updating file access timestamps?

Finally after 12 days I received the SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 (in Amazon 10Gtek SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 12G Internal Mini SAS HD Cable, with Sideband, for NVMe Backplane/RAID Card, Hot-Swap & SATA Compatibility, 100-Ohm, 1-m(3.3ft), 2 Pack). And I was...

Well that makes me think again it has something to do with how time is handled between Linux and FreeBSD.

Don't start with extra plugins. None are needed for running on FreeBSD. The pkg should be just fine.

I'm thinking of adopting zsh as my shell but there seems to be so much to it that I don't know where to start. I believe I need to install ohmyzsh and there seem to be hundreds of plugins. Are any of them specific to FreeBSD? And what would...

"Ctrl+b + :" to trigger tmux command line. Then type command resize-pane -x 123 to set width to 123 or resize-pane -y 20 to set height to 20.

I want a script to do things automatically.

It's weird there's this kind of sentiment going on while everyone's using Anubis: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/5-charts-show-just-how-badly-the-us-has-torpedoed-its-relationship-with-canada-00787084

Out of curiosity, does the state university have anything to do with that recent hazing thing? (looks like ISU might differ from UIowa?)

Is this for personal pages and unimportant stuff? https://www.scottro.net (not srobb.net), is running nginx in a freebsd jail. Just switched it over from Linux a couple of days ago. It's mostly a mirror of srobb.net with a few other things...

I tried this and found that one splitw followed by another splitw ended up with the first window split in half and the windows 2 and 3 taking up the other half. I can't figure out how to start one window and apply splitw to that window and then...

I used to have USB cams on a RPi with motioneyeOS https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneyeos it could snapshot and record on motion to a FTP NAS with built-in support (I think motioneye had the support but it could do fstab mounts too)...

Forget it...runs better on bare metal

Just a quick update. After messing around with the server's Java code this afternoon, I was able to add support for FreeBSD, and I submitted it upstream. So hopefully this howto will soon be unnecessary.

Development on Hytale is moving fast. This is an in-progress how-to current as of version 2026.01.28-87d03be09. If you've tried running a dedicated Hytale server, you've encountered an error about a missing library, and the server failed to...

Interesting, you point me to a thing, I did not notice before. I do know noting about packages mentioned nor about python. But as far as I know, moused in FreeBSD is only for copy-paste purposes. For example, misc/mc either variant S-Lang or...

Doesn't appear to be registered as a dependency. Odd, but it can sometimes happen if the port has a bug. Check a few other things, pkg info courier-imap should show the options the package was built with.

Try rebuilding graphics/drm-**-kmod.

If HN can run on that with FreeBSD, what's everyone else doing with cloud and orchestration? 6M requests with that simplicity should be more popular!