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A lot of people just will not run an x.0 release on production servers, instead waiting until any unforeseen issues are reveled and resolved...

Hi All The issue solved at 293399. Thanks all.

It's also not scalable. You can make experience engineers from scratch, they are a limited resource. And if you set things up this way the intermediate devs don't gain the experience to become senior devs.

freebsd-update only operates on the base OS, not ports/packages (i.e. third party software). In between the second and third freebsd-udate install you are instructed to reinstall your ports/packages. The third freebsd-update install actually...

Firefox and other Mozilla products use their own ssl, name nss. The original problem sounds like something the extension could cause.

Another article from Germany's largest IT magazine: https://www.heise.de/en/news/FreeBSD-14-4-runs-much-better-in-the-cloud-and-on-notebooks-11206384.html

Installing Windows and popping in the printer driver CD is certainly easier. Especially for bargain bin printers like most consumers have. However as per this forums, we tend to like FreeBSD and software that aligns to the same UNIXy / light...

It says it can be integrated with Nextcloud. I don't know if anything else can. Maybe Collabra.... https://help.nextcloud.com/t/collabora-vs-onlyoffice/134994

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ8R7HITios View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qtCePhydAI

Apparently the source is available for the community edition, although I guess it is full of Linuxisms.

Indeed. This happens when computers are seen as completely black box. People does not know for what lpd or cups is there, only know that they must do something with them for printing, and if lpd is not there, then cups must be there. Cups...

when you need to install a web interface for something as simple as sending a document to a printer, something is wrong. It feels like systemd...

No, it is not. Period. It is perhaps easiest only for people that do want to take a little of time and learn before configuring. That user should be using MS Windows, not FreeBSD. I will not bloat my system for doing something like: cat...

I'm trying to get the install script from https://github.com/tschettervictor/bsd-apps/tree/main/nextcloud working but could do with some clarification if anyone is familiar with it...

php84-pgsql is installed. I presume it was pulled in by www/nextcloud

I guess you should install php module for postgresql. databases/phpXX-pgsql

Does anyone have any experience with OnlyOffice ? Does it work on FreeBSD?

Hi gang, What is mtree? mtree is a utility included in the base system (/usr/sbin/mtree) and can be used to compare two directory structures thus allowing you to spot any kind of difference. By default it does this by comparing file size (in...

Here is what I do. I maintain a jail template that is never directly used as a jail. The jails merely mount it either read-only using nullfs or mount unionfs filesystems on top of it. Any local jail modifications written to the unionfs...

Hi All The issue solved at 293399. Thanks all.

I did acknowledge this earlier when I presented my case.

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Help needed for getting Nextcloud working with PostgreSQL.... The docs linked to do not mention PostgreSQL/ Initial page provides this:-

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What I had proposed earlier was moving it to a base pkg. I’ll go deeper in the example call it FreeBSD-printing if it doesn’t have its own already. Then just don’t install it. Make a set for optional.txz for future things like this and so on...

As the response to that states, possibly its worth discussing with the OpenBSD guys why they themselves don't see it fit for removal in an OS focused on security. Hopefully he does and they have some good insight.

I missed this. I don't know if OpenBSD's implementation of lpd is vulnerable. Perhaps a quicker fix would be to import that. Looking at the code (and noting last commit message), I don't immediately spot anything that is very unportable. des@...

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2026-February/001202.html > How does OpenBSD handle this? It supports lpd in the basic system. They use the same code with the same bugs. DES

I always managed to use OpenBSD without cups (and tex live) In FreeBSD is a (probably unnecessary) dependence of a lot of packages. Bloat brings bloat as dependency.

I use service jails, which run from rc.conf only, no jail management needed https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/#service-jails

As the response to that states, possibly its worth discussing with the OpenBSD guys why they themselves don't see it fit for removal in an OS focused on security. Hopefully he does and they have some good insight.

I missed this. I don't know if OpenBSD's implementation of lpd is vulnerable. Perhaps a quicker fix would be to import that. Looking at the code (and noting last commit message), I don't immediately spot anything that is very unportable. des@...

I always managed to use OpenBSD without cups (and tex live) In FreeBSD is a (probably unnecessary) dependence of a lot of packages. Bloat brings bloat as dependency.

I always managed to use OpenBSD without cups (and tex live) In FreeBSD is a (probably unnecessary) dependence of a lot of packages. Bloat brings bloat as dependency.

Whilst I don't disagree in principal (after all, cups is generally needed for most printers anyway), the dependencies pulled in are fairly extreme for functionality simply to replace lpd. Highlight includes, not one but two python interpreters...

Heh, I was going to write that this error happens so infrequently that I can live with it, and now it happened again already Mar 10 03:52:20 kg-core2 kernel: [drm ERROR :amdgpu_job_timedout] ring gfx timeout, signaled seq=88004248, emitted...

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Keep in mind that you can mark certain windows "sticky", so that that particular window follows you around over all workspaces. I use that quite a bit when (also) watching video on one workspace.

For most people CUPS is the better answer. It is a larger footprint and has regular security issues of its own however. I think it's a matter of taste. Some people prefer pulseaudio over OSS. I prefer OSS. I even took the time to make an OSS...

This is another version of the script that finds source code for FreeBSD base system utilities. Post the about first version of this script. Original post with discussion about src(1) from Plan9. UPD: Script from this post has been significantly...

For most people CUPS is the better answer. It is a larger footprint and has regular security issues of its own however. I think it's a matter of taste. Some people prefer pulseaudio over OSS. I prefer OSS. I even took the time to make an OSS...

If it is the Linuxulator (OP, what's up?) it should still behave the same as the Linux kernel. Especially for simple system calls lie select and read.

Whilst I don't disagree in principal (after all, cups is generally needed for most printers anyway), the dependencies pulled in are fairly extreme for functionality simply to replace lpd. Highlight includes, not one but two python interpreters...

By the same token one should use epoll(2) on Linux.

https://github.com/tschettervictor/bsd-apps There is a script in this repo to install Nextcloud from source, and it uses caddy as the webserver. I’ve been using it to spin up Nextcloud instances for a number of years now. You basically end up...

I have no idea about systemd and have no intention of ever finding out. I hear that is one reason that Linux users are switching to FreeBSD.

We'll see. www/nextcloud does include a lot of php mdules.

I read that you could incorporate various CMS's. I think I saw Drupal mentioned. I just came across this link if anyone is interested in using Nextcloud with Drupal.

x11/kde is a meta-port. It doesn't build anything itself, it only depends on a bunch of other ports/packages. Can't tell from the screenshot where, and what dependency is actually failing.