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Having spent 19 years of my career on s/360 and s/370, it would be nice if FreeBSD was ported to System z. Given that the machine architecture does not have a stack -- the linkage stack isn't the same thing -- C compilers tend to simulate a...

Jails are better primitives for containers than Linux namespaces. If anything, FreeBSD can boast of having containers first. Jails are containers.

mplayer is unstable?

Waiting for the normailzation of consumer computers to only accept rust kernels with a security excuse.

I have recently gotten a demo of Linux on there. Very slick project.

The incident that reinforced my ECC picking: - tower PC case, RAM physically above mainboard southbridge - no fan on southbridge - heavy IO - southbridge gets very hot, heats up RAM ==> ECC correction warnings en masse I just had to stick a fan...

In the case of Linux because of export restrictions (pun intended) due to one function marked as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

What use is making billions if it is not for ruling the world? :-/

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I was not aware of this, but will try to find it.

Have you tried posting a question at the forum developer's forum as I suggested in your thread about this topic? The FreeBSD forum lets you do what the XenForo software lets you do.

This doesn't tell us much. What was the error message?

Planetary Assault Systems - In from the night View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXaLRfyIsyY

You have physical access? Some medieval exclusion tactixs might work. Do all 3 graphics output connectors work alone with 1 display? If so, what happens at 2 connected? Also basic commands are useful: dmesg, xrandr, pciconf... Are all devices...

Planetary Assault Systems - In from the night View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXaLRfyIsyY

So, Gnome can't depend on systemd? Glad you're suddenly there. Systemd is a linux thing. Gnome doesn't require it and will never do. It also runs on other systems.

Gnome only starts when a process called systemd is running.? What process view program does it use to find that out? We're talking about software with a public source. You can't fake a dependency. It really has to exist and if it doesn't, it can...

I installed it, look: Well, I typed set and put, not seset or puput. Is the problem known? I remember there is an alternative, I think with editline, but I do not remember the name. ...

Use the e1000 network interface and ahci-hd (although AHCI might even be too 'new').

I think 7.04 is real close to the kernel I'm running (2.6.23) and e1000 and ahci are working fine here. I ended up with this config: loader="grub" cpu=1 memory=2048M network0_type="e1000" network0_switch="public" disk0_type="ahci-hd"...

It seems you don't really know what a dependency is. Try to find a program that's missing 1. You will learn. Show me Gnome not starting because of a missing dependency... :cool:

For the love of God, quit being so hung up on "programming language safety" people! There is safety in becoming an expert and understanding the domain in which you work. I for one am a guy who disables the seatbelt chime the second I buy a new...

What file or device makes the dependency?

And this is where we wrap around to C being the lingua franca of programming. No matter what language you write in, if you want to talk to anything that isn't your language, you must speak some dialect of C. C has become more than a language, it...

Gnome has nothing to do with system service management. What has to exist for what? It will be deleted or disabled.

Simply that my wife got an iPad and now does almost everything on that, and the kids grew up and flew the nest... When they come back they have their own laptops. It was a great setup when they were at school and needed computers for homework...

Easy. Done. wpa_supplicant already supports AC wifi (written in C). What you are waiting on is drivers. As I described above, the wait for these is not due to language choice. More like FreeBSD doesn't have such support from companies like Intel...

As a decades-long ASM coder, I took amusement from the hysteria over GOTO type statements. At the ASM level conditional jumps are a fact of life. I just want to get work done, and not have to fight with the arcane sections of the language. I am...

AI is the new India outsourcing ;) History will likely repeat itself and more software will simply end up needing to be written. The market will expand for the resources.

Somehow, systemd reminds me of this relatively old satirical post https://web.archive.org/web/20010331225146/http://mslinux.org/ The other day I sent it to a systemd loving acquaintance, who thought it was serious and didn't see how systemd...

Electron is a conspiracy by the CPU manufacturers to buy EPYC and Xeon MP systems.

One nice thing, for me anyway, is that now videos and podcasts are in a separate section. For me, I would click a link, then see it was a video, because I'd missed the "youtube" in the link. A minor thing, but I like it. :)

Dropped the lot, nobody really used them anyway. You can user your "About:" section or your signature to divulge whichever contact options you'd like.

It's just a piece of optional software. Someone who can achieve the same with only shell commands is ahead of all systemd users. Same for rc.d, btw. It's meant for people who only want to use particular applications without any technical...

Though it didn't look like it in the example, I am assuming this can be a global toggle so all the many dependencies use the same unchecked array accesses? (Kind of like the MSVC debug STL)

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Dropped the lot, nobody really used them anyway. You can user your "About:" section or your signature to divulge whichever contact options you'd like.

FWIW in a big system in $OLDJOB where we used a language where you can turn array bounds checks on and off on a per-function basis I permanently turned them on for everything. After a couple years of debugging. Just not worth it omitting them...

In cases where constexpr can't be evaluated at compile-time (which is *most* of the time in production), the general compromise is to do bounds checking at debug time and once branch testing is complete, strip it out for release time...

FreeBSD was installed on my work PC (which had an AMD K5 CPU) in 1997. I've loved and used it since, and "maintain" a few ports. How I used to install it: How you know where it ran: I read the book: I'm not shy about promotion (but...

Create a port for it. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/special/#bundled-libs https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/slow-porting/#slow-patch https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/uses/#uses-qt...

That seems like a mistake. Ubuntu (and Debian) use systemd.

To start a FreeBSD jail, yes.

All this talk of containers makes me think it's a "me too" cause Linux has it and not because we don't have our own thing and it's just a Linux-ism.

One nice thing, for me anyway, is that now videos and podcasts are in a separate section. For me, I would click a link, then see it was a video, because I'd missed the "youtube" in the link. A minor thing, but I like it. :)

You should always get the best tools you can afford. Harbor Freight is OK if you only need something a few times but if you are going to live with a tool for a lifetime then FreeBSD is an excellent choice.

One nice thing, for me anyway, is that now videos and podcasts are in a separate section. For me, I would click a link, then see it was a video, because I'd missed the "youtube" in the link. A minor thing, but I like it. :)

I've used multiple monitors for decades without using Wayland.

Its described in FreeBSD Handbook how to create Linux Jails: - https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/#creating-linux-jail