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Hi everyone, I am running FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p5 and using Wine with DXVK. While most of my games runs well, I have two specific games that suffer from extremely low FPS (though menus are fine). In the terminal output for both games, I am...

This is the only relevant result that shows up from an Internet search of the topic, so I'll add a note that ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel now has the relevant feature. -b name Specify the name of the binary package branch to use to prefetch...

Meh, every Thinkpad I had was a PITA with BIOS flashing :p (EC can't be updated outside of combined official firmware flashing; Lenovo only provides some odd iso for flashing off-Windows; wifi card locks forcing the need for BIOS stuff) Dell's...

We're talking about a diskless 1981/2 IBM PC. The first PC came with a tape drive, and ROM BASIC. Continued below DOS shell is exactly what the name says, a DOS shell. Multitasking is not implied. The Borland/Microsoft tools with IDE do not...

Do you knowingly need Steam's regular GUI client? I used SteamCMD from Wine :D (I play stuff offline, but DRM'd/online games might need regular Steam client that might work from Wine too)

I never learned that :p (heard of bectl but haven't used it) I've seen oddities with local_unbound (not sure if DHCP vs SYNCDHCP) and restarting netif mysteriously fixed it sometimes (iirc there was another or 3 different network commands for...

It is hard to predict. My Thinkpad with a junk card had it locked, but I don't know about the others.

Jose that #2 is what scares me, especially considering the sliminess of the large corps.

Biggest leak I ever found (and one of the first) was in Java code. Turns out it was intentional, but it still got me tons of street cred at my new (at the time) job. Yes, Valgrind is an awesome tool. Many thanks to Dr. Paul Floyd.

I have solved more problems in the first five minutes driving home from work than I did all day at work.

CShell I downloaded valgrind (pkg install valgrind) just after reading your post, then i looked at the website. I downloaded the pdf manual and looked at the usage section. I ran valgrind with the --leak-check=full option. Very nice tool. Thanks...

Ya - there is "a completely stupid" push going on right now to stop teaching new programmers how to manage computer memory correctly. So the programmers (ALSO) don't learn how to use valgrind(1) or any other memory checking tool on their...

Mostly vi. However, I use vim as my default editor in mutt. At one point, nvi (FreeBSD's vi) couldn't always do Japanese, and at the time I needed it more in email. And it became a habit. There's a couple of things I have set in my $HOME/.vimrc...

vim, because it has a couple of really handy (to me) shortcuts/operations which pure vi lacks. These makes common editing operations really easy.

I have solved more problems in the first five minutes driving home from work than I did all day at work.

Any of them but only by force because there's nothing else and the file is too big to echo all the text to it. I don't understand why people appeal to a text-editor with specific invisible rules and status. Like the effect of backspace in vi...

vi(1) on POSIX platforms vim on Windows (due to lack of proper command-line job control) I was hoping neovim was going to act as a sponge and prevent people bloating up proper vim but it has unfortunately accrued more sh*t since 2020 than all...

Is yog.sothoth the same as Yog.Sothoth?

Since we seem to be evolving further now, IDEs are becoming simpler again and embedding a raw command line into them, it does continue to demonstrate this IDE explosion from the DOS days was an anomaly from the limitations of the platform. The...

nvim is neovim

Heh that's not the way it works. Quake 1 is not a 16 bit game, it is 32 bit. DOS isn't a OS in 2026 terms. It has residency - it sets up code in particular pieces of memory, and wires them into software interrupt services. The program called...

Show the output of ifconfig. Also what's in /etc/rc.conf

When learning something new, I avoid forums in most cases. When I learned C in 1987, I only had the K&R white book. The only other person who knew C was my boss who was not one I liked talking to. So I learned by doing. Making mistakes. Figuring...

I rememer those DOS4GW modules like for Quake 1 that the last generation of 16-bit games used for high resolutions but I have never seen a user applcation that makes it available to the owner of the computer. It was all commercially boarded up...

Interesting thought, but there were 3D APIs for DOS. Like RenderWare, and Glide. Again interesting angle, but I think it was just evolutionary path of merging programming tools with text processing IDEs. The most primitive IDE I can think of is...

Yes - my explanation was to help facilitate "purposeful memory management issues using C++" so that they can be observed in valgrind(1), gdb(1), etc. You are correct that "avoiding" memory management issues in C++ in the first place is the norm...

This does not look like an Apache capacity issue, but rather nginx incorrectly marking your backends as “down”. Indicators: Apache responds fine when accessed directly (curl, /etc/hosts) CPU/RAM are not exhausted no listen queue issues yet...

Hello, I'm trying here to see if I can get some help on this subject. Just so you can understand, I've been using quiet some time and resources on this matter but I couldn't find why it's doing that. Our architecture might be "overkill", but we...

Status now: Two small mirrors on the NVMe SSDs, one ZFS and one UFS/GEOM. The one half ot the data mirror on the big HDD is already supported by a striped cache and mirrored log and special on the NVMe. So the ZFS is smart enough not to occupy...

They will come back with friends. Cats are beyond human social media. This information exchange can't be explained by science.

Using 1 as public display. It runs on 13.1 and only has scfb + sdl 1 for a graphical screen. You can display simple pixel graphics, pictures and svg fonts. It must be possible to upgrade to a recent release and run a complete X server but it...

embedded FreeBSD would be awesome

Without laying it on too thick for johnjohn who is just starting it out. Calling "new" should be increadibly rare. As in if we are calling it, we are probably doing something wrong. There are a lot of old tutorials out there (even though in C++98...

#!/usr/local/bin/bash # 0-------------------------------------------------------------------------0 # | make_All_ports_dir | # | fill directory /usr/ports/All with symlinks to all portdirs...

how about actually posting the output of "freebsd-version -kru"? -k "installed kernel" -r "currently running kernel" -u "userland" There are times when a patch may only update userland or it may update the kernel. But a kernel update may show...

Best game level soundtrack of all time. Doom 2 e1m1

I am using freebsd for a while now as linux keeps getting crazier. I recently built ungoogled chromium for freebsd and after 36 hrs it's done and i dont use it yet, lol.. It's been a relaxing sabbath rest day and I'm soon off to go feed the 20...

I was browsing the git commit logs after a pull in the main branch, and it seems the problem has been fixed: nfs_nfsdsocket.c: All Copy and Clone across file systems PR: 294010 MFC after: 2 weeks

Kdevelop.

As the saying goes, there are many ways leading to Rome; Kai Burghardt has shown one. Your capitalization request, as based on your example (i.e.: capitalize all words as a "preformat" action), can be done with GNU sed extensions; see 5.6...

This is just an example..... This is file A # /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf written by wifimgr(8) network={ } This is file B ssid="UPC240613990" bssid=34:7a:60:d9:f8:4d key_mgmt=WPA-PSK proto=RSN psk="CVRK54CV" I want the result to look...

Ironically, that realisation alone makes you quite a good C++ programmer in comparison! Part of the reason why C++ has such a bad name for itself in terms of safety (and everything else) is because people treated it too much like C in the early...

This is probably one of your better, if not the best, solution. However, this will affect other port builds. Given that FreeBSD 13 retires at the next month upgrading to FreeBSD 14 or 15 would be a better, and in the long run, a more secure...

You'll potentially be mixing OpenSSL from base and ports, if you have ports that incorrectly links with both for some reason (and indirectly from dependencies) you may up end with compilation and/or runtime issues. In theory this shouldn't be an...

It's overrated anyway. Having a cockpit style development environment is pretty useless and doesn't improve anything. Why do 100 program functions need to be immediately available in 1 window? I think you can uninstall the WM too if you're there...

I think it was actually a scam to make a protected mode multitasking OS look superior. Everything in Windows 95 graphics mode was suddenly proprietary and DOS stayed limited to SVGA.

If all they're doing is reading logs, they shouldn't be aware of even having admin rights, and shouldn't miss the permission if it's randomly revoked unless it was being misused (or in security-reduction context abused) for another...

I think it was actually a scam to make a protected mode multitasking OS look superior. Everything in Windows 95 graphics mode was suddenly proprietary and DOS stayed limited to SVGA.

For me, the only use-case for manual partitioning is that I like being able to run different versions of FreeBSD on the same machine (example: 13.5, 14.3). So I still do that manual partitioning step.

No, except for swap.