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I really wanted to make this article short … but I failed miserably. At least I tried to organize it well so one may get back to it after ‘some’ reading because its not a short lecture. I wanted to title it Why FreeBSD? but when you type that...

I observe an increasing tendency of TUI/terminal software that needs special "advanced" terminal emulators. Homebrew on macOS is an example. If I am on FreeBSD in an xterm and ssh into one of my Macs, I can't directly run homebrew commands to...

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I know this is old, but does this still hold true for Emulex which is now Broadcom? Looking at `ocs_fc(4)` which seems to be a generic driver for all Emulex cards? E.g.: 08:00.0 Fibre Channel [0c04]: Emulex Corporation LPe12000 Series 8Gb Fibre...

Shouldn't it be QUO rather than QUARE? As in QUO VADIS....

Is there any way to download these built files from anwhere? It will probably take me a day to build them and errors are likely to arise which will mean a second or third attempt at building them.

Big centralized data will take over the world. A few multinationals hijacking all public knowledge. Pretty much phase 2 after ending piracy which is actually freedom of information.

> Yes, it works now! That's great to hear! It should be showing up in Quarterly very shortly... I saw the package successfully build last night but I don't know how long it takes to complete the entire package set. > Is there a way to donate to...

I only need to mount 192.168.1.1:/ /net and have full access to my network so can copy over the required file.

There's FreeBSD port audio/spotify-qt. It gives me error: ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/qt6/libQt6Svg.so.6: Undefined symbol ObjectPrivateC2Ei@Qt_6_PRIVATE_API" Private API?

This link works: https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/ Anyhow I thing the whole thing is closed source since Spotify does not provide any source code.

I can generate a CLI-only USB image of this if you want. Creating it needs the entire build system that also includes a working live X.org. Creating a concept minimal mfsroot-based system of this for publication would take me a few days.

Is this available for download?

Why does it need linuxulator? Does it rely on closed source components? The link to a linux client program on their own page doesn't work. Kind of a bad sign, I must say. Who lets that happen?

I have RTX2080. Not sure what you mean by nvidia-drm or nvidia-modset. My understanding is nvidia-drm is the driver for drm and modeset is the option need to be enabled for in kernel display management which I enabled.

Spotify in Chromium works fine with the following instructions: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/watching-spotify-and-listening-to-netflix-in-2023.90695/ I would also like to have the native client running in linuxulator though.

Never used Mfsbsd but I maintain a similar system. It allows a PC to boot from USB and forget the initial boot device. My mfsroot contains 95MB compressed and adds some extra executables that are needed in early boot stage before shell login...

I was mistaken. The initial FreeBSD 15 binary programs to build everything with, like the fork base had bad files due to vague mech disk damage. It says write successful but can't read the written data guaranteed. The buildworld showed a file...

Where do I get an up-to-date source tree or can I download the correct kernel from somewhere? I never have any success at building these things myself.

If you're referring to the kernel.txz and base.txz distribution sets downloaded from here, those are outdated. They were uploaded on November 28, 2025, when 15.0-RELEASE was released. It’s no surprise you're encountering a version mismatch with...

No idea where these come from. It's not something pkg-upgrade would do. You need to reboot, your active kernel is still p6.

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Assuming X11 (see on the handbook: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-graphic-card-drivers), you install x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb (UEFI) or x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa (BIOS) and setup your X to use them (search for: "To...

T-Daemon, I don't understand this. If I use the source from 15.0=RELEASE then won't it simply build the same base and kernel that I downloaded?

I suspect I didn't re-start the "nfsd" service after setting the "-h" flag, which gave a false positive in the test setup. My apologies.

This removes the default -u -t flags. -t Serve TCP NFS clients. -u Serve UDP NFS clients. nfsd

I needed the node ID's (nid 20,33 and 25), cat /dev/sndstat doesn't show them. Try /boot/device.hints ("as" , "seq" values copied from my laptops Realtek ALC257 pindump): hint.hdaa.0.nid25.config="as=3 seq=0" To take effect, reboot system.

nxjoseph@ it was off, yes. Removed `ftp_curl/options`, will now try to recompile, which take probably up to 8-12 hours ... Thanks for hint, will reply about results.

Option one, regular directory: # mkdir /repo/backup Option two, ZFS dataset: # zfs create zroot/repo/backup

I like to have as many lines on the screen as possible. Not sure what you mean by using scfb or vesa, What would I change to enable them? The problem is that I did manage to create what I wanted not long ago but somehow can't re-create it.

Option one, regular directory: # mkdir /repo/backup Option two, ZFS dataset: # zfs create zroot/repo/backup

Obviously the kernel and the drm-kmod kernel module are out of sync. From where did you get the kernel.txz and base.txz? If it is from official RELEASE repositories, then they are outdated. To prevent this kind of mismatch in the future, make...

More importantly. Success!

Hello, I'm trying to compile net/rustdesk-server with poudriere, but failing to do so. Here is the error log: [zstd-sys 2.0.16+zstd.1.5.7] [zstd-sys 2.0.16+zstd.1.5.7] thread 'main' (1040932) panicked at...

Changing this value helped and I was able build mfsbsd after including the drm-kmod package. Unfortunately drm-kmod does not load. I get these errors:- This is very frustrating as I had this working at one point.

I would grep for the MFSROOT_MAXSIZE. It looks like there is one set to 200m, which overrides the 4096M. Alternatively git-clone a frech copy of mfsBSD.

OP most likely is on older FreeBSD 15.0 and pkg version. I do encountered such black screen on 14.3 due to same issue on the Nvidia driver upgrade, but I managed drop into vty and performed packages downgrading. My personal view which may or...

Same problem here. Known workaround is to disable the display compositor into windows settings (sorry, as I'm French, I don't have the exact corresponding strings). This will disable any transparency effect but no flickering anymore. AFAIK it is...

I have verified on my desk PC. It looks like now pkg upgrade will not upgrade nvidia-drm-* related pacakges eventhough there is no locking. I currently on 15.0-RELEASE-p6. So the only package I locked now is the nvidia-settings, when running...

Does it even work in FreeBSD? I don't like it anyway but the ability to install it somewhere is nice.

Well. Duh. Of course not. You can't run ANY window manager till X starts.

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In this article, I have experimented with the implementation of AppVMs on FreeBSD using Overlord, AppJail, and Xpra to apply the principles of security by isolation, as in other operating systems such as QubeOS, effectively reducing the security...

Trying labwc That is a live wallpaper which means that it is actually slightly moving

I was mistaken. The initial FreeBSD 15 binary programs to build everything with, like the fork base had bad files due to vague mech disk damage. It says write successful but can't read the written data guaranteed. The buildworld showed a file...

Neoforge's run.sh is one line: java @user_jvm_args.txt @libraries/net/neoforged/neoforge/21.1.228/unix_args.txt "$@" usr_jvm_args.txt is currently empty, but the example is to use this to set memory allocation. The unix_args.txt has a...

Alain De Vos appreciate the will to help but this is snd_hda configuration specific. (or faulty hardware)