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I have recently switched on some of my machines to FreeBSD. I have also adjusted my "make your life easier" scripts to work on FreeBSD. Some of them are written in Python, and I am looking for a way to write shebangs in such a way that they work...

I am not expert at US law, but I would be confident (bet money confident) that deeming a package repository as app store would fall flat at the court. Package repositories predate app stores; they're not open source app stores, but package...

There are various mentions of the systemd aspects in this other HN thread: Story of XZ Backdoor [video] These might also be of interest: Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund (podcast episode)

sshd can send notifications to systemd, which in turn can take arbitrary action: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39944518

I'd like to know what Theo had to say to such a request, if it was anything beyond that.

All I have to say to that is good luck. They cannot stop people who really want to do something they don't like.

Sleeping room,

I believe that FreeBSD updated their license to add "Not for use in California." So they are going to refuse to implement it. I read somewhere that in the Linux world, someone was going to update SystemD to implement this, but the same issue...

telnetd was always something that should never be exposed outside of a private and secure network. A bit like NFSv3 or.... lpd ;) And lets be honest, Linux probably badly integrated systemd into it and fscked it up. My bigger concern is when...

The touchscreen must show the entire desktop that the 3 other screens are part of? Not sure if that's possible because a combined desktop of 3 monitors with different resolutions is far from a reasonable rectangle. What should that look like on...

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/LPRng/ Note, not maintained ...

All I have to say to that is good luck. They cannot stop people who really want to do something they don't like.

I'm not a FreeBSD developer (committer), but I frequently send patches to the source tree (mostly man pages). I have source tree for my machine (-STABLE) under /usr/src, and I have a separate tree for the latest source tree (-CURRENT) under...

I don't understand. You have 5 touchscreens? You have to explain the goal.

Hey! I'm wondering what the typical workflow of FreeBSD developers is. Do you usually make changes directly in the source tree and then run make buildworld && make installworld on top of a working system? Or do you use jails or VMs? I checked...

Maybe try out xrandr settings... But what do you want the touchscreen to show? Is it a combined desktop where you can move the mouse over different displays? It's possible to convert raw usb-data from the touchscreen to X screen coordinates and...

CGIs in C and sh :) No, not really. But kinda.

Usually direct, unless I need kernel debugging in which case it will be bhyve. My favorite -current machine is PXE (diskless) booted with snapshots on the server, so it is hard to screw up.

This is funny. I love how the cat moves. It's very real-cat-like. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWsqc2I2Wco

Worth mailing the maintainer about.

Well, I did send an email and got it returned with a 550 error. The address was correct, so, perhaps he no longer receives messages there. I'll try snail mail.

Thanks but keep in mind most of it was written back in the time of FreeBSD-10.x.

I like your Windows theme for XFCE. I see on your terminal that it's called Chicago95 (so I guess it's a Windows 95 theme). Let's make a web search (I use Brave Search)... There it is: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 I use Plasma, and I...

another GPU lockup Mar 7 06:41:01 kg-core2 kernel: [drm ERROR :amdgpu_job_timedout] ring gfx timeout, signaled seq=1849137723, emitted seq=1849137725 Mar 7 06:41:01 kg-core2 kernel: [drm ERROR :amdgpu_job_timedout] Process information: process...

astyle, I just use mpv to watch these things. I used to be more into multimedia--I have an old page on working with multimedia, though most of it was written when the issue was making DVDs. https://srobb.net/dvds.html Most of it now is pretty...

My grandparents are 93/94 years old, they're in the nursing home. The trick to getting old, and its not just they're old, their face skin is better than some people 50 years younger then them, is low to no amounts of stress. No food gym or...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-No-Build-LTO FreshPorts shows LTO=on and I have Mesa version Mesa 26.1.0-devel-lto. A comment implies using Clang allows LTO to be fine?

Heh, meanwhile I'm getting bored of php85 on my stack :p (not with Nextcloud; feels a little dated still seeing 2025 on the Windows page)

Heh, meanwhile I'm getting bored of php85 on my stack :p (not with Nextcloud; feels a little dated still seeing 2025 on the Windows page)

I posted there when I first tried 14.1, and was excited to get 14.2 before the announcement :D View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MXV80q17ww

I follow the thread "Introduce yourself, tell us who you are and why you chose FreeBSD" because I enjoy reading the posts of the new members and to welcome them by at least clicking like. This one is from today...

I've personally been using php83 without any problems with nextcloud. So, you can update at least that far. I feel like I had a reason for not using php84, but I can't remember why and whatever it was could be a non-issue now.

Being a noob again killing Cows was kind-of fun :p (testing out live streaming on FreeBSD with OBS Studio) View: https://www.youtube.com/live/ewiiRX7D79s?t=75s

For yt-dlp I did also try to use the deno package to no avail. So I tried node also to no avail. I also tried to build each from ports. I recall one failed and the other I stopped caring mid way through because it was taking so long, sort of like...

xlibre pkg seems good on 16.0-CURRENT :D (GW2, wine-devel 11.3; evdev xorg.conf forced) Having XLibre's Intel DDX installed had X not start and report some unwind error (was fine installed and xorg.conf-forced on Xorg), but removing it and...

It is currently being discussed, in the freebsd-hackers@ public mailing list. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2026-February/005867.html

MidnightBSD has already decided to change their license to prohibit use in California due to the Digital Age Assurance Act. Will FreeBSD be doing the same? https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/

scottro I just remember the mood of it and that it wasn't what I expected but enjoyed it nonetheless.

Has anybody managed to compile LLVM20 or LLVM21 port with Flang enabled? If so, did you define any flags and how much ram did you have at compilation? Is it possible to get binary package with Flang enabled or get back the separate Flang binary...

I always disable those. For those interested, e.g., you might want to put Windows 11 on a Bhyve VM, Tom's Hardware has a good article on removing the TPM requirement when installing Windows 11...

They are trying this with the PC for a long time. I remember the Pentium boards that never heard of USB-boot while Norton Ghost had a 16-bit DOS USB driver to be able to restore a partition with only a bootfloppy. At 1 point they gave up because...

Black Adder--darn you fernandel now I have the theme song in my head. Did you set me up with a "clever plan?" Scenes of it are running through my head now. "That's not a head. That's a pumkin". drhowarddrfine, how did you like that movie? I...

I saw this!

Suddenly any computer without SecureBoot and TPM is illegal to buy :p Although it seems like Apple would be ahead of the game.

As was said towards the beginning of this thread, the bill's already passed. On Governor Newsom's site you can't even leave a comment about it that I saw, there are limited means of web commumication. I do wonder if it's worth writing a snail...

Dr Who - you are like them or you are hate them. There are no other options. I think I saw so so many...but I didn't miss any episode of The Black Adder.

Weeell, hold on a second. Some of us use open source software specifically because this cannot happen against the will of a sufficient fanbase of such software. You can never really take it away. The issue at hand here is that software with...

The sky may not be falling but the concept of the FreeBSD 'base' sure is ;)

we don't install pkgbase