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Sorry to hear that you leaving and Thanks for giving FreeBSD a chance. Usually rsync a home folder will not cause any black screen as FreeBSD has a very organized file structures unless something is corrupted on the system files. I am just...

Very solid thanks for posting ideas. We have lots of these servers and big plans to upgrade most of them to FreeBSD 15. Our problem has been resolved. Thanks Chris and EK and others for suggestions. I also have a similar post on HPE forums which...

Linux has a BSD filesystem module that is usually compiled to be read-only. But of course that is sufficient for you.

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In motherboards maybe but it would instantly obsolete all existing computers if a public OS with age verification becomes mandatory. I so hope the EU is going to reject all of this. EU governments leaving Windows is a media fake. They stop using...

as blackbird9 put my mind on the Faces... Where I grew up, a suburb of NYC, there was the Capitol (Capital?) theatre which had as good a collection of bands as Fillmore East--Capital was closer and the train cost less. I remember seeing them--I...

They can't exempt any OS. Everybody will start using it. I'm expecting a political anti-OSS FUD campaign and telecom providers demanding identification before connection. The problem is people having control of a computer without eyes on it.

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Yes, old install was same version. Have always used OpenSSL. I am not sure what you mean talking about symlinks. Is that regarding ca_root_nss?

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This shows graphics/drm-fbsd13-kmod for my ThinkPad W520. I don't even know what that is. I installed drm-kmod which seems to work OK. Should I install drm-fbsd13-kmod although that sounds as if it is specifically for release 13.0.

I want my v4 mount point to be /repo/backup. This is specifically for Clonezilla where I want my Clonezilla backups to go.. I think I went through this some time ago, but gave up because I couldn't make it work. I may have created a pool, but...

No wonder I never heard of him. I think anyone who trusts "influencers" is a complete idiot. The internet I enhabit is Web 1.0 and I am very glad that I do. I don't even have any social media accounts, and I never will. I don't need to be tracked...

Wayland and X server need to be kept separate, because most people use one or the other. If someone wants both, they will be able to install them. As for X clients, they will always be needed, bc of X server, and because Wayland will have a...

Having to untangle dependencies like this is a sign that something is deeply wrong. Just think about that. Also, it is Ninja that brings in Python. We should be using the NetBSD Xorg that doesn't have all of that crap.

I agree. The entire reason I use Xorg is because I don't like Wayland. My hardware is fully capable of running Wayland, I Just Don't Want It. Further reading: https://stoppromotingwayland.netlify.app/

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Also, mesa-dri brings in loads of junk. I think someone should message the maintainers of all of these ports and ask them if debloating them of their dependencies would be possible. I think all of this Linux dependency garbage should be made...

It is simply bloat. Xorg shouldn't require Python to run.

When executing the command sysctl -A|grep compat.linuxkpi.drm, the only kernel variables displayed are: compat.linuxkpi.drm_dp_aux_i2c_transfer_size: 16 compat.linuxkpi.drm_dp_aux_i2c_speed_khz: 10 compat.linuxkpi.drm_drm_fbdev_overalloc: 100...

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...