Latest activity

Flat out BS. Ban State of California usage and let the politicians unmake the mess they've created with braindead laws. Why should we taint the user record with politics-regulation stuff in the first place?

So? Reddit means nothing and is only home to the criminally insane and Linux users who are there only to bash FreeBSD.

Well, Newsom ain't gettin' my vote for president now. And seriously folks, that might matter enough to him so that if enough of us protest against this, he might be against it too. (I don't even know what Newsom's view on it is.) blackbird9 from...

I agree with you. Even though *my* use of (in this case) Japanese is minimal, Wayland can't do it all. I believe there are some other things that X can do, that Wayland can't, but as it's not that important to me at present, I haven't really...

Even if single compositor works, it's not at all sufficient to say Wayland is complete. ALL COMPOSITORS RUNNING ON WAYLAND SANELY WORK (means, Wayland itself mutually support sane work) ON ALL ENVIRONMENTS RUNNING WAYLAND is the prerequisite to...

Just FYI, lpd/lpr (the printer tools) will be removed. They are insecure and nobody volunteered to rewrite them.

The apstats stuff looks good, as would be expected. It's easy to forget how much good work was done in the past.

I still use the algorithms published in the Journal of Applied Statistics, mainly for the code quality and robustness - all the mathematical issues, convergence, handling of floating point, etc, have been carefully thought through...

Today I had to do some checks from my backups; was googling which table it is in. Posting here for future googlers: # sqlite3 /tmp/restore/mail/var/db/pkg/local.sqlite SQLite version 3.50.4 2025-07-30 19:33:53 Enter ".help" for usage hints...

Well, I have tools I can use in Windows, but I REALLY wanted to use FreeBSD because I thought it would be safer. OK. Later, Ken Gordon

If wayland is complete depends on what it claims to be. I don't know.

so, when I attempt to mount md0p3 using ntfs-3g, here is what I get: :/mnt/6TB # ntfs-3g /dev/md0p3 /mnt/Joes3 NTFS signature is missing. Failed to mount '/dev/md0p3': Invalid argument The device '/dev/md0p3' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS...

Disclaimer: I know nothing about this, but a quick search suggests using this to get debug info. That output is less than helpful. ntfs-3g -o debug /dev/ada2s1 /mnt/drive_d

Isn't that just knowing the exact operation of your graphics hardware? I think all that a display server or whatever you call it needs is the elementary information required to display things on a rectangular screen made of pixels, and...

Decades ago, I had nothing to do. I was an electronics guy but I had nothing to do one day and the software manager asked me to do him a favor and erase/reformat about 50 floppy disks using a computer in one large room. No, we didn't have a bulk...

OK. So, I input: mount -a -t filesystems/ntfs /dev/md0p3 /mnt/Joes3 Output is: mount: /dev/md0p3: File name too long Now, I have installed and use regularly, fuse ntfs-3g and, in fact, fuse ntfs-3g is in the kernel, as I use commands in fstab...

Well, I brought down my company's mailserver last Friday afternoon. (No, I didn't go home, leaving it broken). And, I'm sorta exaggerating. The time was way off on the server, I reset the time, checked right after to see mail wasn't working, sort...

vi mode is modal just as the vi editor is.

ntfs is not a valid mount option AFAIK. I think you need to use filesystems/ntfs

T-Aoki, I've said this in other threads, but in case someone wanting Japanese input finds this. With the labwc window manager, you can put the needed variables, XMODIFIERS, QT_IM_MODULE, and such in a file in $HOME/.config/labwc/environment. The...

ntfs is not a valid mount option AFAIK. I think you need to use filesystems/ntfs

Gee. Thanks LeeBrown66. That can be made to work. So....here is the output from the command, file -s /dev/md0p3 <ENTER> root@KensOffice:/mnt/6TB # /dev/md0p3: DOS/MBR boot sector, code offset 0x58+2, OEM-ID "-FVE-FS-", sectors/cluster 8...

Let's see if THIS works. Ken Gordon

How about pasting the information into a text file via a terminal editor, then open that text file in a new browser tab (file://absolute-path-to-file, ie. file:///home/me/status.txt) Maybe then you can copy/paste between browser tabs?

You are correct. While applications may not work without Xorg, Wayland's goal is to completely replace it everywhere.

How about pasting the information into a text file via a terminal editor, then open that text file in a new browser tab (file://absolute-path-to-file, ie. file:///home/me/status.txt) Maybe then you can copy/paste between browser tabs?

Or they are back at their old desk two month later for twice the bucks as a freelancer. That happend to a coworker of my dad. You can say about banks what you want, but they have a better sense of risk-down-the-road than the run-off-the-mill...

So technical documentation is quite a different thing to what you are referring to here. Think more along the lines of a replacement for Doxygen rather than a comprehension assignment for Macbeth.

Not true. Your opinion is valid...I'm just asking that you take some time to understand why things are as they are before endorsing revolution...Evolution is fine. Revolution is not.

Respectfully -- No room for middle ground on this one. Democracy is fine for social clubs but not in the pursuit of technical excellence. I think if you look at the distribution of postings on the forum you will note that long standing...

I tend to agree with RussellASC in that BSD should remain an expert system. ie, you need to know something about computers (or at least have a hacker's curiosity) to get something out of it. We (I) don't want the mass hordes poisoning the...

I'm not sure courting end users should be the goal. Look at what Gnome, Wayland, and even newer Firefox versions are doing. They are requiring more and more Linux-only software and design choices (pulseaudio, Wayland only, systemd, etc). To run...

grandpa Yes it does. And it has/had indent-sensitive semantics. (shudder) Also, let me congratulate you on your signature, good sir. Now I have a nice stroll down memory lane.

I am not sure that this is the correct place to discuss my latest issue, but here goes: I have been trying, for the past several days, to rescue some files from a messed-up Windows install on a friend's laptop which has a 128 GB SSD installed in...

Then I would like to see a Wayland demo program that does at least 2d graphics from a FreeBSD text-only CLI. How do you show a pixel in a specific color? I would find it very interesting to not need anything related to X.org (while using an open...

You need to create them first.

So if I wanna install this thing and try it out on my freebsd 14.3 or 15.0 box, is there a way to do that? Or is it too early in development for that?

You may be totally wrong as the OP probably got there with the help of some friend. And now another friend wants to influence with "something better" the OP may never reach through own knowledge. My advise is, don't let anyone touch your devices...

One thing that FreeBSD has over any other OS, as you can see, is a passionate community eager to help. That's for sure.

Well, I brought down my company's mailserver last Friday afternoon. (No, I didn't go home, leaving it broken). And, I'm sorta exaggerating. The time was way off on the server, I reset the time, checked right after to see mail wasn't working, sort...

we developed a habit of echoing globs before we actually run their commands

Y'know that's a good question. I'm assuming yes, because of RH and its ilk, but they might have some X stuff in there. I know that building labwc on RH requires having XWayland installed. (or for running it anyway).

A bit harsh. Sure, perhaps the guy(s) is using it to to grow his zig skills, but its still good to see some new work being done related to X11, and something useful may yet come out of it. According to the article they are also attempting to...

Just had to add -f, then it works.

Yes. The problem is Red Hat and Canonical made Linux people think X11 has no future. This dogma was financially backed by large sums of money and pushed around for years. Resulting in Linux audience at mass rejecting X11 religiously, and then...

Looks interesting to see, but I dont trust in nothing coming from linux(based in the article) in other words "Wayland moves aways xorg" "linux desktop" "all is obsolete,whe are future" That aptitudes makes me sick

I hope this hasn't already been posted, I did a search on 'Phoenix' but didn't find any related hits. It's a bit out of date. https://linuxiac.com/phoenix-emerges-as-a-modern-x-server-written-from-scratch-in-zig/ This one looks like a clean-room...

I’m not entirely sure how useful my project would be to xtd in its current form. We’re both using fluent, chainable styles. xtd relies on multiple backends (Qt5, GTK3, GTK4, FLTK, etc.), while my framework doesn't need to use a thirdparty...

I tried mkdir /tmp/a && mount_nullfs / /tmp/a && mount_nullfs /tmp/a / Instant hard reset. It wasn't even read-only yet. 😆