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What can be expected varies extremely I dare say, from <1 up to >500 MB/s any kind of drives are sold. While the ones without any rates named in their specs are mostly in the lower rates below 15 MB/s. Yes, of course it can be measured. And you...

I've recently found that writing to NTFS partition has not worked. This may be because I'm using very excellent filesystems/automount by vermaden which automatically mounts NTFS partitions but not in RW mode AFAICS. Can someone confirm this and...

This is the most useless code ever: :rolleyes:

High-performance computing/HPC? It could cover CUDA/OpenCL on GPUs (Folding@home, AI GPU-accelerated, etc)

It takes a while to find a local LLM to "fit" you. I use a dense variant of Qwen. It competes well with online LLMs. Of course it can't do live web search and it has a hard cutoff date for the data inside. And you need some serious computing...

I never did anything with it. Sounds like you need at least 30TB storage or so to start with. And it grows of usage? Some distributed system must be possible. Periodically sync the nodes with all new collected LLM data that's shared in p2p-style...

Like title says. I tried the following on my FreeBSD machine: sudo virtual_oss -C 2 -c 2 -r 48000 -b 16 -s 1024 -f /dev/null -H 192.168.137.39 -o 9080 -d dsp $ cat /dev/sndstat No devices installed. Installed devices from userspace: dsp...

I'm not sure that understanding is correct but I haven't had a chance to read much about pkgbase, either. I believe pkgbase will be an installation tool only and is indifferent to what it installs. That is, it installs parts of the OS in the same...

Why don't you ask AI?

Maybe HAL's corner? and expect a lot of "I'm sorry Dave, but that is a really really lame idea"

Slapping all AI related stuff in it's own subforum doesn't solve the "seeping" problem and creates a new problem of encouraging AI posting. Considering the project has disallowed most LLM contributions, it seems reasonable to not encourage...

Not supported here. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ghostbsd-pfsense-truenas-and-all-other-freebsd-derivatives.7290/ Unused memory is useless. So you're going to find all your memory being used after a while. Mostly caches (process cache...

You can also change the name later. No reason to get into parliament to pick one.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. I was fortunate to receive travel sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation to attend the AsiaBSDCon 2026 conference and the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Taipei. The event was held over four days...

Don't do thumb drives, especially not when you care about speed. Get a M.2 to USB enclosure and a matching M.2 drive,

Don't do thumb drives, especially not when you care about speed. Get a M.2 to USB enclosure and a matching M.2 drive,

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

Any recommendations for PEN drives? What sort of through put can be expected and is there any way to measure how fast they are?

That's not very useful, I want tool calls, LSP, and MCP integrations. That's way more powerful. I need to get back and finish it, but I had a development method where I was working on a partially broken audio driver (snd_hda) in FreeBSD where...

To get started I would simply install a base FreeBSD system the add a minimal GUI. I started with XFCE as I think most people do but realised it had too much stuff which I didn't need. Nowadays I just install xorg, lxde-meta and chromium. That...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA5YNb3hlKI

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyY7aT9-ZW8

You don't need opencode. You can just use a LLM in a web browser. Upload your code through the browser. clipboard gets code out.

ADHD organization skills 😁

KDE,

Or directly use shell patterns without -x option (if resolvable in a unique port name) pkg info -l 'python*' this is ambiguous, maybe shows installed files for more than one package (if llvm19 and llvm20 are installed) pkg info -l 'llvm*'

Good call, but I'd also suggest adding -x so that you don't have to type out the full name.

It takes a while to find a local LLM to "fit" you. I use a dense variant of Qwen. It competes well with online LLMs. Of course it can't do live web search and it has a hard cutoff date for the data inside. And you need some serious computing...

The AI discussion is seeping into most forums. It does seem like a major topic of interest to many, to warrant its own forum. Thanks!

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.)

I vote for this because many AI related discussions are a form of off-topic or not completely specific to FreeBSD management/usage. At the same time, it is a trending argument that can affect the interaction with an OS, its user base, security...

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.

Hmm... still life?

Just don't move anything or "tidy it up" for me, because I know where everything is!

ADHD organization skills 😁

It should be lumped there because it's for how to technically run games on FreeBSD but if you have a separate games sub-forum then it will be all about playing games and little to do with FreeBSD which is what this forum is about.

Might be a good idea indeed. Really? So this doesn't exist? misc/claude-code, or misc/ollama, or misc/comfyui? Actually, every section is a forum on its own, this place is called "forums" (plural) for a reason.

I think bakul means something like there already is with "System Hardware", "Embedded", or "Off-Topic", etc. which are also called forums. Apart from not knowing if this would open pandoras box - at the end, the Administrators, Moderators and...

It's a reasonable request, however, this is going to run into a lot of opposition. Those who all out hate AI are going to have to deal with it one way or another. I rather see gaming get its own forum first, not just lumped into multimedia. It...

What I never read anywhere is what a single computer running a local "AI" service can achieve with some open source/public domain LLM blob that sets the initial "intelligence". Does it take complicated English questions?

Hi FreeBSD friends Long story short. My old harddrive was dying and I made a clean install (with zroot) on a new harddrive and copied all the configuration from the dying drive. Everything seems to work great. But I have a problem with my gitlab...

HPFS predates NTFS and AFAIK NTFS was designed around NTFS. IBM and Miicrosoft jointly developed HPFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Letwin

I doubt whether file recognises hpfs. This from a disk that actually has OS/2 installed and I can boot from it. => 63 625142385 da0 MBR (298G) 63 15057 2 !10 [active] (7.4M) 15120 4097520 3 !23...

You type media.cubeb.backend in the url and press + button and string and set it the value to the soundserver you use.

There is no useless program to write as long as it passes lint.

Yes, much of my early C programming progress is rooted in useless programs.

Just use FreeBSD before 3.0. The a.out binaries were incredibly much smaller than the later ELF stuff.

A good OS will not let RAM go unused. The idle shot doesn't allow a conclusion that RAM is wasted.

I didn't use network sinks yet. But I would answer the piprewire versus pulseaudio question with no wasting time on PA anymore. PW is utterly superior.