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Any WM that is not a windowing environment should suffice, i.e. twm, mwm, fvwm, ctwm, etc. Use them to reduce the WM footprint. KDE, Gnome, Xfce, LXDE, mate, and other windowing environments include a lot of extra baggage above and beyond a...

You all never heard of the "please come from" statement... When writing compilers, you learn to really hate goto statements. They produce one hell of flow graphs and make it hard to use elegant and fast algorithms for register allocation, loop...

Read it or not, I don't really care, but that wasn't an instance where POSIX was wrong.

Yes, what are they teaching kids these days? Plus, if you use 2 spaces it's a lot easier to do things like take a text document and split it to 1 sentence per line if for some reason you want to, without complicated heuristics or formulas. Just...

The two spaces only appear after a period that terminates a sentence. Not after one for an abbreviation. That is how you tell the two cases apart.

In English you do, it's just that computers are commonly setup to give you an extra space after the period. There's also the bit that if you need two spaces after a period at the end of the sentence it helps when you're looking for the periods...

That didn't work, but this seems better: /usr/bin/nc -c 'sleep 2;printf "ehlo desktop.localdomain\r\n";sleep 2;printf "etrn master\r\n";sleep 2;printf "quit\r\n"' server.localdomain 25 I know it's a bit crude in just waiting without reading...

It's less than 2MB as installed package... There's probably almost nothing left if you don't count the themes image data.

Openbox is a no go it is not even a light WM but a full fledged one. I think I might try tiling ones such as dwm.

I'm not sure about smallest. With openbox you can maximize a window to take the full screen. With a tiling window manager like dwm, if you only have one thing open, it will take the full screen. I feel like I'm missing something in your question...

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Not a direct answer to your question, maybe not helpful at all, but perhaps an alternative direction... Install unbound from ports. local_unbound is a stripped down version. You can use it as a local caching resolver or a full recursive server...

Found it back, that was it. Too bad I don't get the Openbox source. I want to change things but it's complicated

In reply to MG, it's ToggleDecorations. I do that with key shortcut, but also had a setting for app whatever, to have no decorations. At the end of my rc.xml (the open box config file) I would have <application...

I'm not sure about smallest. With openbox you can maximize a window to take the full screen. With a tiling window manager like dwm, if you only have one thing open, it will take the full screen. I feel like I'm missing something in your question...

Openbox does run programs without any decoration. The configuration can be long. I'm at 900 lines of XML. Not sure anymore which setting this was. I run fullscreen xterms without anything of window top bar or edges for focus.

Interesting. I've got doas-6.3p13 installed on a 15-release system and have not had to type in password. But that is likely due to my config (single user systems at home) having "nopass" for my user. Yes I know not ideal but as I said, single...

Yes, sorry, I want to say mdo is specific to FreeBSD and using it (mdo) instead of doas. My english use italian semantics. Sorry.

Are you able to chroot into that instead? I.e: # chroot /path/to/phonedev A little less secure than a Jail but doesn't need to be a long term thing but useful to help diagnose if the Linux Emulation is working correctly before we diagnose Jail...

I've been trying to make some X11 single-app fullscreen 'environments', borderless, no WM. With XTerm or normal, resizeable applications it works to use xdotool with windowsize arg to 100% and --sync option to catch XTerm after it runs. But...

Wear that to a tech conference. Get the Trump haters and the BSD haters on my tail. Might just add "Rust sucks almost as much as Wayland" to the back too. ;)

In assembly we use GOTOs all the time except they're called JMPs as in JNE (jump on not equal) and JE (jump on equal) and more.

It's not a i9 13900K? Mine has a random freeze once per month at high load. 😆 It doesn't look promising, but some things you could try is to get into the usual environment from a remote terminal. It will probably lose connection but might give a...

That's definitely a bad sign. It's going to be difficult to diagnose though. If it's this locked up it won't be able to log anything either. But, definitely check /var/log/messages, there may be clues leading up to the lock up. Some general...

I am back to what I did in the past :)

Maybe it's just the graphics that have been switched off (and fail to come back on). Can you access the system with ssh?

Nothing else exists. A loop construct of some language is also made of jumps.

Ok. So you have a single BE named default; it sounds like that is a fb16 system. (freebsd-version -kru will tell us) Then you manually created fb15 (zfs create zroot/fb15 and copied fb15 files into it)? That means that fb15 is not a BE which is...

I believe you are thinking about these two: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/upgrade-freebsd-with-zfs-boot-environments/ - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/10/19/other-freebsd-version-in-zfs-boot-environment/

There are better language constructs to exit nested logical blocks than goto. Well, not in C but elsewhere.

Not sure why you are using the past tense here. Usenet is alive and well and likely the largest "decentralized media backup" in the world. And yes, that still includes porn.

I wouldn't be surprised if people start using VPNs for the purpose of being "outside" of CA from all appearances. I worry mostly about what this could do to developers in the state as anybody outside of the state shouldn't really be under any...

I'll see what that does.

# pkg install ca_root_nss # ln -s /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt /etc/ssl/cert.pem /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg: SSL_CERT_FILE:/usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt

Have to refill the spares in a meagre 5TB per disk array. Prices are outrageous even for those small HDs.

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I've looked into it, but it's rather opaque. I can set postfix up to accept ETRN connections, but then I apparently need to use the insecure telnet to signal it manually to send my mail, and that telnet connection has to be to a process running...

I feel very fortunate that I bought my current desktop a year or two ago before the RAM prices started to sky rocket. I was able to completely fill out it's RAM capacity with 32gb of RAM. Granted, it's DDR4, but I probably should sell the...

Probably a bit of misconception here. Automatically starting X and showing a GUI login screen is a function of a display manager. Some Desktop Environments have their own display manager, some don't. In any case, just like window managers, there...

I would debate that. You don't need any account on the ports collection to access them, and there should be nothing in there that is age restricted. So you have no reason to check any age. Germany has a guideline/rule not to request data you...

Or select the boot environment you want to start from the boot menu.

mer doas is from OpenBSD. FreeBSD has it, but the persist feature doesn't work, so you have to type your password every time. There is, however, opendoas, which honors the persist feature in /usr/local/etc/doas.conf so if you type a password it...

After you start the MySQL without grant tables you need to load it using "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" and after that you can reset the password. From 8.0.35 Native password is replaced with caching_sha2_password...

I don't think worm out RAM is a thing. And firmware that can contain malware is just being introduced now. (ETA: into RAM modules)

Thank you T-Daemon and others for clearing up my misconceptions. It is in fact unfortunate that you have to revive a dead port to get PXE boot in bhyve.

WI1 chip1: Realtek RTL8812BU doesn't seem to be supported in any FreeBSD version. To be sure, you could ask a wireless FreeBSD developer on freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org mailing list.

I am surprised at mdo, and that I hadn't come across it before this article. Being built-in certainly is preferred over a 3rd party program. I've setup doas before, primarily for working with bhyve VM's. This will be fun to learn!

Probably a bit of misconception here. Automatically starting X and showing a GUI login screen is a function of a display manager. Some Desktop Environments have their own display manager, some don't. In any case, just like window managers, there...