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Show me that AI becoming constructive and productive. I haven't seen anything yet. It can only be a knowledge-trap. If you create something with an AI service tthat has a market value, the AI provider will be the owner. What's happening is...

What speeds might that be needed? Iirc I was doing 200MB/s from a USB 3 drive with NTFS yesterday (seemed just as-fast if not faster than Windows)

Show me that AI becoming constructive and productive. I haven't seen anything yet. It can only be a knowledge-trap. If you create something with an AI service tthat has a market value, the AI provider will be the owner. What's happening is...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. FreeBSD runs on this… FreeBSD runs on this… and FreeBSD runs on this…! It’s easy to get FreeBSD running on a Raspberry Pi. It’s easy to manage multiple hard drives with ZFS. So we were...

Accidentally found machdep.idle=hlt that looks like idle=halt I was doing on Linux :D machdep.idle_mwait was 1 prior, but I wonder how that would work if mwait was disabled in BIOS? I have machdep.idle_available: spin, mwait, hlt, acpi (default...

Accidentally found machdep.idle=hlt that looks like idle=halt I was doing on Linux :D machdep.idle_mwait was 1 prior, but I wonder how that would work if mwait was disabled in BIOS? I have machdep.idle_available: spin, mwait, hlt, acpi (default...

Fakebook is putting some steam behind jemalloc(3). In case you don't know, FreeBSD's default malloc at this time is jemalloc. So FreeBSD should benefit from any improvements as long as they are not some Linux-only nonsense. That reminds me that...

Yes. And a pkg-autoremove would also remove the build dependencies that were installed with the make install-missing-packages (they're flagged as "automatic").

If you look at the existing emulators/wine port you'll notice a whole bunch of ./configure arguments. CONFIGURE_ARGS= --verbose \ --disable-kerberos \ --disable-tests \ --without-capi \ --without-coreaudio \ --without-dbus \...

Fakebook is putting some steam behind jemalloc(3). In case you don't know, FreeBSD's default malloc at this time is jemalloc. So FreeBSD should benefit from any improvements as long as they are not some Linux-only nonsense. That reminds me that...

libcapi20: Disable it, you're not going to need to support ISDN connections from within WINE. With regards to other libraries, you often have to instruct ./configure where those files live on FreeBSD.

Please give it a try. I consider myself a slow coder. I mainly work on it little by little on weekends, and development takes me several years.

Make sure X works first, then you can think about making it start automatically when the system boots. I'll throw in the analogy again, when you build a house you build the foundations first, then the walls and finally the roof. You don't start...

No, it's a command you enter on the command line. The sysrc command will add an entry to rc.conf for you. I understand FreeBSD is entirely new to you, but do you have any prior experience with command lines? Perhaps on Windows or Linux?

You don't. sysrc is a command to conveniently add/remove/modify entries in /etc/rc.conf. Other than that, rc.conf is just a text file, you can use any preferred text editor to modify it. Do NOT put commands in /etc/rc.conf.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/advanced-networking/#network-bluetooth

elephant (like that name, by the way), I can't duplicate your issue. mdo -i pkg update works fine for me. My user is a member of wheel,video, and vboxusers (which I'll remove when I get around to it as I've switched to bhyve). Hrmm, if I...

My experience is like AlfredoLlaquet and Espionage724. Links are reddish. This is on Waterfox and Firefox.

general.useragent.override on Firefox seemingly does it too; I haven't noticed anything different on websites yet: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD 16 x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0 I'm curious what else can be changed on UA...

I still have my X220 ( need to fix it ), my OG T61 ( but no original parts from original one left ) I got my from xyte, nos - i think it costed me around $1500 plus taxes, imports. They still keep prices and in Europe Thinkpad`s are way more...

Can It also use vim plugin? That's amazing.

The interesting part for vnodes is at the middle, a bit to the right. There are still free vnode data structures left, so there is no impact on cache performance from the vnode number. That is limited by your free memory. And yes, inactive memory...

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I have iFi xdsd that works with FreeBSD.

Oh, im in the club since 2022 lol ... i think its me who should welcome you to the club ha ha :)

Yep - I got mine in 2025 - up till then I was happy with W520 :) ... and I still keep many X220 or W520 or T520 (with 4C/8T CPU) machines :] There was time when original T25 was available in my city for $1100 - in NEW condition - back then (in...

Have you tried to use beadm(8) for this?

Yeah, the crap that the browser generates I am also quite happy to blow away on each reboot. I would probably opt for @reboot cron task though rather than storing in ram via tmpfs.

Welcome to the club :)

Why wouldn't that work? I can't think of a reason.

"Don't clog up threads" doesn't need a formal rule. It is common curtesy.

Yes, this is up to date and correct. Also see the daemon book.

There are two problems: The LLM generated answers are too long and block reading the thread for others You should only post such output after you reviewed it for correctness. While doing that you can also shorten it to address the previous point

Hello, I'm looking for a compact graphical view of the internal layers of FreeBSD. Searching over the net doesn't help me much ... I've this one below with stat tools, do you think it's relevant / right? This is related to a specific version or...

Hello :D So I wanted to share something I've been working on called PaxOS, a FreeBSD-based distro that attempts to run BSD, Linux and Windows. I created PaxOS out of curiosity after trying "ReactOS" and I thought: "I wonder if there is a distro...

It is now at 1.5.2,1.

As long as you stay above the number absolutely needed (plus delta ofc) it will limit the code cache. FreeBSD caches on a per-file base, that is what shows up as "inactive" memory. Try having top running and check if the user memory gets...

A quick look at the source indicates that this is a vnode cache. So setting it low should only make your system slower. That explains why applications don't throw errors for you.

Ah, so rather than exposing the core linux os base that makes up Android and provide a real native terminal, they wrap it in a virtualization framework to further restrict the device owners capabilities and throttle performance, while undoubtedly...

Yep. The Nodejs "ecosystem" is having a bad week: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/unc6426-exploits-nx-npm-supply-chain.html https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/glassworm-supply-chain-attack-abuses-72.html

I tend to feel a 100GB model isn't a cache thing. It should be handled as proper data and stored somewhere less volatile. I do want /var/cache and ~/.cache to be wiped each reboot to avoid clutter building up. Though admittedly, tmpfs and...

So what actually happens when you lower it and run the disk intensive commands? Do the commands bail out with error messages or not?

That seems to be what I find as well. I do it in an alacritty terminal and just close that terminal afterwards. For my particular workflow that seems the easiest. EDIT: Actually not exactly. In that same terminal, I can just type exit and I'm...

My personal advice about getting familiar with FreeBSD is to simply install it somewhere, play with it and get used to it. A couple of USB sticks or a spare disk in a USB enclosure can be very handy as long as you can boot your computer from USB...

Would this work? https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/keyd/

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So, did feyrer.de get slashdotted, or? (the site is not reachable now)

Show detailed problems. I think this is too vague. What goes wrong and what does that look like? Good thing is to run things from any terminal to see better what goes wrong. Only a crash can be anything. Is it looking for a file?

Understood. I don't have any system which uses MBR, only GPT. On FreeBSD the "p" indicates a GPT partition scheme, "s" (for "slice") a MBR: GPT: % gpart show -p => 40 500118112 nda0 GPT (238G) ... 4605952 209715200 nda0p3...

Seems not. I asked here but no reply: - https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2026-March/006002.html