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What about porting NetBSD's modified Xorg that is modified to be buildable with BSD tools and not depend on Linux crap? A x11-servers/bsdxorg would be great!

I usually install xorg-server xf86-input-libinput xinit xauth (which I sometimes forget) xsetroot (for use with dwm's bar), alacritty, dwm, liberation-fonts-ttf, and openbox. Of course, they all pull in quite a few other things, but less than...

The trick with FreeBSD is to select laptops which have the best FreeBSD support. I think ThinkPads are most popular among FreeBSD users.

What's wrong with Happy Pride Month? This guy who made these videos is just a right-wing pundit in the tech world. Why do we need politics in our space whatsoever? Everyone should just put aside their political differences and biases and just...

Checked from a Void Linux client but couldn't reproduce the issue. The client mounts just fine. Review for typos, missing double quote, or non-printable characters ( see vis) in the /etc/rc.conf nfs_server_flags line.

I completely agree to all of this. Maybe someone could mention on the mailing lists of Free, Net, Open, and Dragonfly BSD, as well as writing a letter to their respective foundations, about starting a nonprofit BSD alliance! I agree. Following...

More like, no filesystem is reliable compared to a proper backup strategy.

How was it killed by Red Hat? I know the creator of Xlibre is A BIT paranoid, given his crap about vaccines. I just think it was killed because the Linux world is collectively idiotic, and yet they are at the helm of everything open-source. The...

The x11/xorg port is EXTREMELY bloated. It offers to install so much Linux-crap like Wayland and glibc. I can't belive the default port for X11 offers to install shitty GNU/Linsux bloat. This gives people an awful first impression of BSD in my...

After what I said in Xorg meta port extremely bloated with linux crap, I have considered making a xorg-basic meta port that is only x11-servers/xorg-server, x11/x11-apps, x11/xorg-libraries, x11/xbitmaps, x11-fonts/xorg-fonts, x11/xdm, and...

I believe that now is more than 6 months that I have been using FreeBSD (Desktop) as daily driver at $WORK but also at $HOME for my personal business, and I am extremely happy and satisfied! I still have Linux on my small laptop (mainly because...

Minimal means minimal. You needs to add the filesystem you boot from.

I have a an old camera which ftp's data to my newly updated freebsd box (15.0). Since the standard ftpd is no longer on freebsd, I loaded freebsd-ftpd from ports. Now I'm getting pam errors in messages: ftpd[37074]: in openpam_load_file()...

Well, I solved this problem. At least I got imapd to work with thunderbird on macos. I did install a new cert, but it was a bit of fiddling with the server and the client, which I find a bit of magic. In any case it now works.

I believe that now is more than 6 months that I have been using FreeBSD (Desktop) as daily driver at $WORK but also at $HOME for my personal business, and I am extremely happy and satisfied! I still have Linux on my small laptop (mainly because...

I tried mounting a UFS partition on Debian but it seemed to need all sorts of things I couldn't figure out so I went back to OpenSuse and am copying UFS partitions form my 'inaccessible' disk to my server for backup purposes. When it's all...

Share what is missing, someone may have a suggestion for you to overcome any barriers. There are plenty of geniuses here and they all share the same enthusiasm for FreeBSD and are more than wiling to help anyone sort out any problem.

It's my system and I'm the only user. It sits well with my workflow.

I see one of my posts has made it into Vermaden's Valuable News. Famous at last! :-) Edited to add: I see my 2.11BSD post also made https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/valuable-news-2026-04-13/

There seems to be a misunderstanding. Throughout the entire instructions above, none of the server's local root file system is exported. You’ve likely confused the NFSv4 tree root with the server’s root file system. Those are two entirely...

Minimal means minimal. You needs to add the filesystem you boot from.

balanga and Stefan2, the following example is a simple NFSv3 and NFSv4 ZFS "sharenfs" configuration: /etc/rc.conf nfs_server_enable="YES" nfsv4_server_enable="YES" /etc/exports # Assuming /home/GRUPPE is the mount point: V4: /home/GRUPPE...

Thank you! Do you know why the option is not included in the config? Does it need to be fixed?

no zfs is needed for anything. UFS2 is just fine. When you format a drive as "UFS" today, you are almost certainly using UFS2 as the physical format, while the FFS code handles the reading and writing.

I had to add the FFS option to make the MINIMAL kernel booting. Am I missing something? Do I have to reinstall FreeBSD through ZFS to make it work? Thank you!

Pft, Xbox One can open full-on Edge browser with keyboard and mouse support :p

Hi guys, I know this is happening but it's unclear why. I'm trying to get some assistance from the dev who created the ports framework bits for generating the offline/reproducible tarball of the npm libraries/dependencies. It's supposed to be...

I don't use it, but I wonder if it's similar to the Linux iwd, (that's a daemon, but it includes iwctl which can be useful). https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd

wpi_cli allows you to dynamically connect to the wpa_supplicant socket and control it dynamically. I.e so you don't need to terminate and restart the wpa_supplicant daemon if you want to change to a different access point. It also can modify and...

wpa_cli allows you to connect to a password protected wifi network from a cli (command line interface, aka terminal). It's very useful because it outputs a lot of useful information about wpa authentication and you can choose to output a lot of...

ifconfig will only scan, if i'm correct not assign an IP-address. wpa_cli will read wpa_supplicant and try to assign an IP-address to your wireless device & set routes.

GitHub's website is hard to find a binary; is there one available to try now for Bun? https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/29676

Hi folks, I am running FreeBSD 15.0. I had to migrate the installation to a new harddrive after the old one was beginning to fail. At the same time, I switched from an UFS based installation to one based onzroot. Most programs runs just fine...

Mounting the server's root fs, especially mounting it read/write. What could possibly go wrong with that?!

Oh really?!

GGML has the ability to detect your CPU at runtime and fallback from whatever it doesn't support. I've patched the ports file to make use of it here...

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That's not true. One can use /etc/exports to define the shares by directory path (e.g. /home/GRUPPE -network 192.168.2.0/24 -alldirs). If defined in this manner, the file system is unimportend. It can be UFS standart directories, ZFS datasets...

Your link of opendoas said: "Description: This is a port of OpenDoas, which in itself is a port of OpenBSD's doas forLinux and MacOS. OpenDoas unlike OpenBSD's doas supports persist on FreeBSD(and Linux + MacOS)."

Unfortunately persistence of opendoas is not like-for-like with persistence of doas on OpenBSD. To quote Ted Unangst, original creator of doas: https://web.archive.org/web/20250812140828/https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/doas-mastery This is why...

If the same data is NFS shared, no seperate dataset (definitively no seperate pool) is necessary for the two protocols. To mount a share with the NFSv4 protocol is to define a NFSv4 tree root and use the "nfsv4" mount option as shown in the...

balanga and Stefan2, the following example is a simple NFSv3 and NFSv4 ZFS "sharenfs" configuration: /etc/rc.conf nfs_server_enable="YES" nfsv4_server_enable="YES" /etc/exports # Assuming /home/GRUPPE is the mount point: V4: /home/GRUPPE...

The red highlighted "mountd" and "rpcbind" services are unnecessary, those services are started automatically (NFSv4 even doesn't require "rpcbind"). Also, all the other red highlighted are unnecessary. The blue highlighted may or may not be set...

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Does that mean that any Linux flavour should be able to support UFS, at least in RO?

Seemingly mounted fine 4 days ago (booted oS TW LiveUSB to backup 15.1); I didn't try write, but it mounted after modprobe ufs (iirc ufs is default blacklisted)

Seemingly mounted fine 4 days ago (booted oS TW LiveUSB to backup 15.1); I didn't try write, but it mounted after modprobe ufs (iirc ufs is default blacklisted)

Apparently OpenSuse provides some limited support for UFS. Has anyone tried it and how well does it work?

If I want two shares, one for nfs3 and the other for nfs4 do I need to create two pools?

I'm not an expert but I remember I read several articles about exporting nfs shares with zfs before it worked. This is how it works in my local network: The name of my zpool is rpool I want to export the directory /home/GRUPPE with all...