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The only thing to watch out for when 15.1 is released, the package repository would still be built for 15.0. Packages get built for 15.1 when 15.0 is really EoL three months later. This is where the new FreeBSD{-ports}-kmods repositories come in...

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/topics-about-unsupported-freebsd-versions.40469/ Last build dated Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:08:05 GMT was succesfull, I'm sure it'll reappear soon...

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/topics-about-unsupported-freebsd-versions.40469/ Last build dated Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:08:05 GMT was succesfull, I'm sure it'll reappear soon...

Was doing a fresh 16.0-CURRENT install, installed xorg, and pkg install xfce didn't work (worked fine 14.1, 15.0, and 16.0-C until a few days ago)

I did so, I just first tried the assembly from the sources,regarding Linux users, they prefer to retell fables, because all the software I used in Debian is also on Freebsd (the only thing is that I had to transfer FreeBSD from quarterly repos to...

That would be the ideal case. I guess I'll just approve nxjoseph@ PR - if the "nopulse" flavor is selected, then pipewire will be left out, too. Probably I will have time in the evening to test & care about this.

Opened a 294141 for the new update. From 39820069c36312562d6fa31a190df401a03d24f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yusuf Yaman <nxjoseph@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:38:41 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] x11/sfwbar: Update 1.0_beta16.1 =>...

Or even cheaper: I'm running a T450 and I'm perfectly fine with it. The only drawback is that on the M.2 port where the LTE/4G modem is, all I found is that I can not install a NVMe SSD, but only a SATA SSD. I thought NVMe goes directly to the...

A gentle suggestion:- retire your atom machine, it's done it's time, and spend a small amount of money to get a thinkpad T480, like this one...

I found conflicting information on this subject. Some say it depends on the BIOS... Well, it costs nothing to try.

The Intel Atom N270 is a CPU that supports Intel 64, why is it running on 32 bit?

Oh, I see now. You're on an i386 machine. Alas, i386 arch isn't really well supported since some times... You are on Tier 2. https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/#_supported_platforms

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...

Can't second this. I dare say FreeBSD's ports tree covers ~98% of Linux' third party software. I may be wrong, but I don't miss anything. There may be some few very special packages only available under Linux, and for sure there is the one or...

blender is an application that you dont want to run on an old machine. Better try another port that attracts you. P.S. Welcome to FreeBSD & the forum!

PS.: It's not available in FBSD-14 (OpenZFS 2.2), but on 15 (OpenZFS 2.4) you may also try zpool-prefetch -t brt <zpool> because I assume that on installation of a new jail some files are copied from a template, and the smartness of ZFS will use...

So what you want is not pull in any sound daemons?

That's what attracted me to FreeBSD initially, you can just do cd /usr/ports/devel/php85 and type make install. One of the first systems I used to build FreeBSD on was an old Pentium 90, with 8 MB (yes, megabytes, not gigabytes) of memory :D I...

Maybe, maybe not. The original NVidia drivers are usually not affected, but the DRM NVidia drivers can be. And this is exactly what the FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository is intended for. With a major version upgrade everything must always be...

I use vi for the following reasons: vi is always installed by default. Due to the nature of my work, I often connect to servers with very minimal configurations and no internet access. vim has syntax highlighting, which is very convenient. But I...

+1 for kdevelop. There is also devel/codelite and devel/codeblocks which I had uses over the years.

Did you install using the full DVD or the boot only? In my case, with the Beelink, I could not get any connection, wired or wireless. When using the full DVD it did see the wireless.

Still no new board after RPI3 with FreeBSD 13.x and scfb graphics. There really should be an ARM board as some sort of community preference. I would buy it and contribute to a FreeBSD environment that covers most of the devices.

[eclipse: ugh...] +1 Eclipse is today's emacs: big & sluggish.

Kdevelop.

nvi because it is there and I got used to it. Main editor emacs, then nvi. I am unhappy, but they are widespread and hence I suppose will not spoil files.

When it comes to using a debugger: I like being able to set breakpoints directly in the edit buffer as well as the next person. But in practice my debugging needs quickly evolve to the point where I need extensive .gdbinit statements, and that...

A bunch of printf statements is all you need for debugging.

Well, FWIW, my phone is broken which holds the account for the forum. Since spare parts are out of stock around the world, this requires actually fixing the broken usb board.

I use vim for the additional features it has that vi doesn't. I use vi when I hit return before I hit the 'm'. Or when I'm on a system that doesn't have vim. Everything has vi.

neovim because it creates a *.orig on the 1st modification of a file. And I also use nvimpager, so I have less/more with syntax highlighting. But IIRC I had to tweak one of the standard configuration knobs. Maybe it was setting PAGER in...

Ok, I wrote a FreeBSD 15.0-release image to a usb stick, which I booted on the Raspberry Pi 5. No changes as far as I could see (in other words, no fan control, no on board networking) So I upgraded to FreeBSD 15.0-release-p5 via freebsd-update...

vim because it has syntax highlighting. You're missing neovim.

Yes, IIUC it creates a new fresh jail for every ports it builds, installs the build-dep ports, make install and deletes the build-jail afterwards. Which means a lot of stress for the underlying storage: a lot of files are created and deleted...

Having multiple processes write to the same tcp connection using locks is not a good idea in general. But hard to recommend an arch. without knowing the details.

The syntax doesn't require setting the path pattern in single quotes, also, it makes no difference if they are set. I am testing the issue since yesterday, some linked /dev nodes are not unhidden in the jail, I can't tell why. Test setup: bhyve...

There is no bias, cause I'm an Unix guy. No confusion either, because I've been programming in DOS (and still do occasionally) for 3 decades. You need a framework to explain how Windows 3.11+Win32s provides a 32-bit protected mode operating...

There is no bias, cause I'm an Unix guy. No confusion either, because I've been programming in DOS (and still do occasionally) for 3 decades. You need a framework to explain how Windows 3.11+Win32s provides a 32-bit protected mode operating...

How many of them regularly post any FreeBSD news?

For us it's perfectly fine to have a FreeBSD 14.4 running PHP 8.5 and a FreeBSD 15.0 running PHP 8.3. Never had a Linux distribution that allowed that. Sure you can build PHP from source and get there, but you're bound to mess something up that way.

The issue you are experiencing seems to be Windows 11 ( NFS) related. I can not reproduce the problem on a FreeBSD 15 NFS server/client setup (I don't have a Windows installation to test). A NFSv3 ( or NFSv4 for the matter, which is not...

Wow. 2.7 million people have gone to stack overflow to find out how to exit vi. There's an old bash.org post about it, which I'd always thought was a joke. (The vi article link https://vivianvoss.net/blog/vi) I can't find the bash.org post...

Yog-Sothoth, for some reason, even though your post was first, I didn't see it till this morning, so as I said to daridro, I learned something, so thanks.

(N)vi has multiple undo too but it works differently: "u" and "." instead of multiple "u". However, I understand the reasons for this 50/50 split.

I know that on a Beelink SER5 that I have, The Realtek card was not seen during install nor after install. A second Beelink I have, an SER5 Pro (I don't think I noticed any difference aside from this) which has what seemed to be a slightly older...

Good thing it got patched. There's a security advisory. What more is there to talk about?

Assumed that you machine has 2 M.2 (or other to connect fast NMRAM) you can use a mirror and always have a spare that you glue inside the case of the machine. You can compute the propability of failure and maybe it's low enough for you.

Often confuses newbies. With FreeBSD there's only one ports tree. All supported versions (at this time that's 13.5; 13 will soon be EoL though, 14.4 and 15.0) use that same ports tree. Which basically means all versions of FreeBSD have the same...

Oh, and just checked, nothing disappeared. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/easily-install-and-run-apache-in-a-jail.102145/ Yep, that seems to be the case here.

Dammit, apparently you need to be a mod to view that list. Anyway, active mods/admins are Crivens , DutchDaemon and me. I'm usually not around during the weekend, although I might drop in to see if anything's stuck in the queue for too long.