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I drove the Git adoption at the company where I was working in the early 10s. Linus and Linux had nothing to do with it. Every other place I've worked at since has already been on Git.

I see where you're coming from, but that's the whole point; something covered in "other ways", amongst which sticky bits but mostly mtree.

I can definitely respect that, but at the same time you can also turn this around: if Git wasn't all that great then why did it gain such a massive userbase? Now, I obviously don't know how you guys are using Git but as a die-hard Git fan(boy?)...

It doesn't look like massive space. How about imaging all primary devices like /dev/da0 to a central storage with dd? A compressed ZFS pool or just gzipped images to save space, maybe?

Not sure how to add tools. Do I just copy them onto the filesystem or do they need to be installed?

Over the years I've managed to accummulate around 30 laptop disks and would like identify and possibly backup and reuse some of them. Many are from my pre FreeBSD days. It is difficult to analyse what is on some of them but hopefully someone may...

loader.efi is designed to boot FreeBSD. It is not a "boot selector". What you're looking for is typically done with a boot selector like GRUB or rEFInd.

Hmm, I don't quite see anyone suggesting as much. Not to mention, you're not the only one; while I am quite familiar with Perl regexps (and regular expressions in general) I never really used the language. Did recently upgrade to 5.42 though ;)...

why not just use an EFI loader and just boot its native loader (grub I guess)? chainloading was an ugly hack for legacy boot, but is rather pointless with EFI...

The web server should be identifying the content as text/plain so that the browser can display it. Instead they are either not assigning any mime type or a wrong one, so the browser falls back to binary download of content.

What might crypto coin mining go under? I figure GPUs can mine and AI can be accelerated with a GPU; gaming/multimedia has a section but what else might someone use a GPU for if not AI or mining? I'd sooner use a GPU for mining than AI :p (quick...

Maybe poke around over on OpenBSD bug database see if anyone has reported similar. OpenBSD is the genesis of FreeBSD pf, had divergence, but things have been brought a lot closer (I think to make fixes and new features easier to integrate)

I have actually find some reports, but many of them have been for 13.x and 14.x, and they often points to a fix that's a couple of years old. And that fix seems to be included in 15.x. I might need to tune something more, just need to figure out...

One of the younger engineers where I worked called us over. "Hey, guys! Come here. Look at this!". He had wired a tantalum capacitor in backwards and the top popped off with a little candle like flame on top. Only a hardware engineer would get...

Only if they are, in fact, about creating a new port for said tool. Installation/upgrade issues (existing port or package) can go in "Installation and updating of ports and packages", that split is already there. A VPN for example, can fit in...

I just came acorss an updated version of HBCD Hiren's BootCD PE https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ [ some hours later] I tried downloading the above link via Chrome on both FreeBSD and Windows, on one it timed out twice after about 20...

Too hulking. Redundant, because we already are under FreeBSD What about: AI, LLM & ML And I want to repeat my wish for explicite prohibition of any AI related stuff in the other forums (except Off-Topic, maybe.)

Those can stay in "offtopic".

loader.efi is designed to boot FreeBSD. It is not a "boot selector". What you're looking for is typically done with a boot selector like GRUB or rEFInd.

There was something relating to bandwidth specification for one of the queues (single case) where the underlying variable was a uint32 and it needed to be a uint64 (I'm paraphrasing). OpenBSD fixed it, it was ported to CURRENT (not sure if it...

I'm hoping so, and that this isn't on my end. Updating the thread if/when I find more information!

The classic example of the impact of quality engineering is Japanese manufacturing. While many of the complacent post-war western companies left quality on one side, the Japanese with their long tradition of craftmanship took it to heart and...

Alright, cool, it's the default 'pkg.freebsd.org'. That's good. What's not so good is that you appear to be redirected to a broken mirror.

Make a "random AI thread" and talk about it all day long there if you wish.

How about "ML, LLM and generative AI"? Think that covers most of it?

This is what I do in my .profile, not specifically for this problem but for one like it. if tty >/dev/null 2>&1; then eval $(tset -Q -s -m ansi:vt100 -m unknown:cons25 -m screen.xterm-256color:xterm-256color -m xterm:xterm-256color -m...

"AI and LLMs on FreeBSD"?

Any suggestions for the forum's title? Will probably add this in the "Server and Network" category but need a short and clear title, it's quite a broad topic. And yes, this won't be a section for "AI told me this, is that correct" type of...

Slop copy and pasting shouldn't be allowed in a dedicated AI subforum either. We have serious business to discuss.

Change the terminal settings in your Gnome terminal. Set it to xterm-256color if you want to keep using 256 color mode. The terminal setting from Gnome terminal is passed on over the ssh connection to the 'other' side.

i propose that it be called the Slop Trough

That might be off topic as it's not a FreeBSD issue directly. And it wouldn't be a forum. This whole place is a forum

Can't find it now - maybe one of our friends from that area can help out. But from me as a german engineer this warranted a respectful tip of the hat.

Well, the main reason why I keep on using it is because it was the de-facto standard within Sun Solaris. So when I stopped using Solaris and moved on I wanted to hold on to that familiar environment. Or maybe I'm just not open to change... I...

I heard that there is an art form in japan that works by coloring a thread, part by part, so it will result in a complete picture when it is used to weave a belt for a kimino.

Oh, right! I always forget about that one. I had to configure it for my fibre connection at home too. mpd_enable="YES" netwait_if="ng0" rtsold_enable="YES" ipv6_cpe_wanif="ng0" ipv6_defaultrouter="-iface ng0" dhcp6c_interfaces="ng0"...

problem was solved ... ipv6_cpe_wanif="public" .the is core thanks for all

pdksh is something I have never used, but I imagine it is used by aficionados ;).

There is an ongoing thread on recent ProLiant Gen11 issues or in the FreeBSD bugtracker.

https://www.freedos.org/download/ FreeDOS 1.4 just came out last week. You'll be the first in this group to try it.

Interestingly, I was able to log in with incognito mode but that doesn't transfer to the regular tab. When I exit incognito, I have to log in again when I go back to it.

Tried that. Didn't work.

Had an issue and deleted all my cookies and history. Now, when I try to log into Facebook, I can't get past the image verification to log in. The one where you have to click on the picture of a motorcycle and so on. It keeps cycling through more...

I know I'm very late to the party, but I have another take on this... I'm sure many of you won't like it but many shells also support the so called vi mode (set -o vi). Now, I don't use Bash myself but its manualpage does mention this option (I...

One of the younger engineers where I worked called us over. "Hey, guys! Come here. Look at this!". He had wired a tantalum capacitor in backwards and the top popped off with a little candle like flame on top. Only a hardware engineer would get...

Reddit calls them sub-reddits. The forum I used to mod called them sub-forums. I've always known them as sub-forums elsewhere. It's not a first occurance.

Sub-forums.

You can believe whatever you want, doesn't make it true though.

Some company online once said they had to switch to git because it's what the people they were trying to hire were used to, not because they liked it. Again, based on popularity Microsoft wants to have their hands where people are and where the...

Please learn the difference between & and && in a shell context. Also, no need for the redirection to an intermediate file; history | vim -R -