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No. We are not amused. And as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be...C-base kernel without end, Amen!

Turns out there's at least one useful zero-byte program. I ran into it on Hacker News, but the original site appears to have been taken down by AI bots. Here's the last version I can find on the Internet Archive...

You reminded me of this: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNrQFgWcCd0

Better don't write to NTFS outside Windows. Use exFAT if you need shared volume.

Hi! I've been in Linux for 5/6 years. I started quite early with Arch, been a while, and than switch to Artix (no systemd). Recently I discovered Alpine Linux, that is a great OS, but I started feeling the Linux universe was not enought for me...

Why are you posting information relating to DNS when you have an error involving routing? Post your whole rc.conf.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ghostbsd-pfsense-truenas-and-all-other-freebsd-derivatives.7290/

There is no hardware offloading to turn off on a completely virtual interface.

Version should not include the patch version, so it's 15.0-RELEASE, not 15.0-RELEASE-p5. It will always install the latest patch version.

Configure Xorg first: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/ Then your preferred desktop environment: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/desktop/#desktop-environments

pkg prime-list or pkg prime-origins if you want to list category/package

I'd rather have a search engine that worked and forums not blocked by cloudfare than any of the AI tools.

What's wrong with this evergreen guy from the first chapter of Genesis? Why hasn't it been fixed for so long? In theory, it's a perfectly mature product, developed according to the canons of software engineering...

My usb mouse works without any moused_* settings in rc.conf. The moused daemon starts automatically with type 'evdev' on port '/dev/input/event6'. Maybe your old settings are interfering? Try to comment out those settings (except maybe...

Kind-of curious if this would work, but unplug the mouse, run this, and plug it in within 3 seconds of running (used to do it for a joystick and U2F key): su - root -c "sysctl 'hw.usb.usbhid.enable=0' && sleep '3' && sysctl 'hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1'"

Looks like no problem. It needs drm-61-kmod. No idea how to run Wayland but it's supposed to work on this hardware.

An update would only wipe out your file if the name clashes with a newly added file.

I’ve been using a customized *.kbd keymap located in /usr/local/share/vt/keymaps/, dating back to March 9, 2024. Despite multiple minor updates within the 14.x branch and a major upgrade to version 15, the file has remained untouched. This...

I’ve been using a customized *.kbd keymap located in /usr/local/share/vt/keymaps/, dating back to March 9, 2024. Despite multiple minor updates within the 14.x branch and a major upgrade to version 15, the file has remained untouched. This...

we call him "lennart pottyring" for obvious reasons

I think it's worth mentioning vermaden's article that seems to have, at least to me, sparked a fresh interest in mdo on FreeBSD. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/uplift-privileges-on-freebsd/ I liked atax1a's post--I too, remember that...

back in the day there was this quip going around saying that bsd users like unix, whereas linux users don't care about unix and just hate microsoft, because of ini files, the registry, and incomprehensible event viewers and service management...

Finding ways to crack AI generated code.

Nah, in a hundred years there will be >1k additional new languages. The purpose of each also will be to avoid C, because this didn't actually worked with any former language so far. And each and every one will be way better than any other...

No. We are not amused. And as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be...C-base kernel without end, Amen!

FULLY offtopic (pls no kill me!) But this whole thread does start to remind me about my old C64 days... oh dear... 10 print "This computer is hacked!" 20 goto 20

You can prevent coredumps by putting kern.coredump=0, or reroute them by putting kern.corefile=/dev/null in /etc/sysctl.conf.

When I came to Unix my programming ability was ahead of my ability to appreciate the existing tools and libraries. I wrote many a naive replacement for existing stuff, usually crippled versions.

I just fully replaced Java (a remnant from my old Solaris days) with Python, and I am hyped. Meaning: this wasn't just about purging, this is also about rewriting and rebuilding so many Java programs I made in the past. Not only did this...

Isn't this already a thing though? Anyone looked into /usr/bin/newgrp recently? It needs SUID to work, but it doesn't get it out of the box. Better yet... peter@zefiris:/home/peter $ newgrp newgrp: need root permissions to function properly...

I've just recently come back to FreeBSD after a period away and I had forgotten just how good core has been on the whole. I logged in and after a few years of modern Windows and Linux, I had forgotten what it's like to use an OS where there are...

Solaris introduced RBAC, role, profile and pfexec, but revived sudo in Solaris 11. Maybe it was too complicated for administrators to properly configure them. I find few people complain about SELinux these days compared to when it was introduced...

"It depends". (omg, why am I now thinking about Kill Bill? Ahem, anywhoo...) First things first: ports and packages? They're more or less the same thing. When you build a port? You're actually building a package which then gets installed...

Dear all, I recently installed FreeBSD 15. During the installation, I chose the packaged base installation. That means that now, my kernel is a part of a package. # pkg which /boot/kernel/kernel /boot/kernel/kernel was installed by package...

Creating a custom pkgbase kernel package alone is unsupported, currently. There are plans to add support for this. A custom pkgbase kernel package can be created, but it requires "buildworld" and other steps, unnecessarily IMHO. Aside from that...

Too bad. I just remembered that I wrote up the other changes back when. I currently don’t have the mental bandwidth to check through this thread, so I’m just leaving it here. Maybe there’s something in there that helps you...

I'm all for people who are capable of raising so much money. Good for them. I couldn't raise $0.50 to buy a loaf of bread if a were starving. Besides, this quote from the money-raisers is very interesting: That's what coding needs. It needs to...

I have always considered git to be a pain in the rear. We used it cause others used it and we had to interface to them. I think "them" used it for the same reason--other people used it, not because they liked it. If git was that good, why are...

Too bad. I just remembered that I wrote up the other changes back when. I currently don’t have the mental bandwidth to check through this thread, so I’m just leaving it here. Maybe there’s something in there that helps you...

I'm grateful there's people like you, even if it didn't work!! It was more than worth a try. Thank's for the link, I have been there already, but I can't remember if I tried the kern.maxdsiz settings. It might be far fetched, but I have my...

Hi! I've been in Linux for 5/6 years. I started quite early with Arch, been a while, and than switch to Artix (no systemd). Recently I discovered Alpine Linux, that is a great OS, but I started feeling the Linux universe was not enought for me...

Exactly, the problem was to make my homedir accessible for system-wide bin. Probably I'll follow the tip and create /opt. Thank you everyone for the exhaustive answers!

When I have something that's not in ports, I create a dir in my user home/. Maybe this will help you: hier.

the clue is in the error message for em3 em3: failed to allocate IRQ for rid 0, name irq0. for some reason, the driver was not able to find a free irq for em3. Perhaps there is a limitation on which irq's it can use. Unfortunately no clues in...

What have you got on your Home Lab

They also offer it hosted.

Oh no, it didn't work on, at least not on my FreeBSD-RELEASE-p5. # dmesg -a ... No core dumps found. --- Starting local daemons: cannot define inactive set table ddos: too many elements. Consider increasing...

Hello, I wanted to try out this WM built atop of fvwm2. My main desktop is KDE Plasma, I also use Windowmaker, and some tilers occasionally. In the first-run wizard NsCDE asks about theme integration. It doesn't mention that these are global...

du -sh /media/da0s3/lost+found 8.4G /media/da0s3/lost+found Looks like quite a bit of wasted space.

Hey there. I've just come across this discussion after a long time absent here. I don't have a real solution for this issue but you may appreciate a potential workaround. I still run into the error when loading large IP lists into tables. PF...