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As scottro pointed out, sometimes rebooting is not an option. I have administrated SuSe enterprise systems that emulated mainframes and you can't really tell someone that payroll is unexpectedly going down for a reboot unless the COBOL code was...

To put that into perspective, yesterday's Debian Linux kernel update fixes 303 CVEs. If those didn't come batched that would be reboot hell. I don't understand why some of you think you must reboot for FreeBSD updates. I never reboot just...

As scottro pointed out, sometimes rebooting is not an option. I have administrated SuSe enterprise systems that emulated mainframes and you can't really tell someone that payroll is unexpectedly going down for a reboot unless the COBOL code was...

What a useful thread. It deserves some kind of award, the "First World Problems" award, perhaps.

Looks like the updates are going to become more frequent. All we can do is review the code a lot and that is not foolproof as there will always be bugs. Is there a way to place a hold on those patches that require a reboot and perform them at a...

^ the apps tunneled aren't using X intristic which makes them a hell for network transport. It's like trying to tunnel a real OpenGL game in a windowed mode over X11. The same would apply to Vulkan/OpenGL rendered terminals.

I used openSUSE Tumbleweed on a webserver for years and got used to daily rebooting every OS (if no updates that day then it gets rebooted just to clear up any potential odd firmware stuff, memory leaks, or rogue longstanding connections); on a...

It is more using a GPU (vs a CPU) than use of 3D rendering. On high dpi screens, once you use larger openfont/TTF fonts instead of bitmap ones, you can get noticeable better performance with a GPU than a CPU. This may not matter to typical users...

That explains why the kernel was rebuilt, but I see no functional change to the kernel.

What does that graphical "mode" have to do with the terminal in use?

The Linux kernel is dragging a UFS module with read-write support around since the beginning. The default compile option is to make it readonly. Unless a Linux distribution fiddles with that it will have readonly UFS support.

They pop up from time to time: posters who want their threads or posts removed because they're done with a subject or the forums in general. There have been bitter disputes about the "ownership of posts". The content below was culled from...

You did ask that on June 2021 ;) See: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/r-w-access-to-ufs-from-linux.80830/post-516614

I feel stuff like glamor doing 2D/everything -> 3D on older GPUs that have hardware 2D paths is less-efficient and only done for development ease (every GPU has 3D, Wayland doesn't support Xorg DDX for the 2D paths, newer AMD GPUs don't have 2D...

Are you familiar with bectl and/or beadm? It's a good way to be able to get back into your system as long as it boots. To, as usual, spam my own page, https://srobb.net/fbsdbe.html. This is assuming you installed on ZFS.

I change very rapidly in emacs and tmux in xterm and it never felt slow.

I wonder what the kernel change for p8 is then. dhcp and freebsd-update are userland.

If you're using NVIDIA driver ports in old-school way (without graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod*), the situations would be quite rare. On the other hand, as LinuxKPI often breaks KBI (Kernel Binary Interface), rebuilding for graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod*...

If one fan does that I usually re-lubricate all of em; I still have my original 2012 Thermaltake 120mm blue led case fans :p I have that exact blower! Mine came with a plastic cup/vacuum attachment and I use it as a mini-vac; I use this blower...

Compressed air from a can cools the parts down considerably. I use this tool:

While I don't understand the problem in detail, I think you should go source-based for everything because of specific needs that aren't covered by a default installation of binary programs and drivers. Is it a good idea to rely o pkg and the...

Yesterday's dhclient security change turned out to have bugs, corrected today. I don't think today's fixes should require a reboot. And they are not security fixes.

As seen in the PRs, I've proposed temporal fixes (but as I wasn't enough sure, not as attachments but described inside my posts). But the devs seems to be working on upgrading upstream and update ports once it finishes, rather than introducing...

See my comment in that PR. git -C /usr/port checkout to the commit previous to d94082fc7 to build drm-6{1,6}-kmod.

Usually, fixes are first tested on main (aka -CURRENT) branch at least in 3 days, then, MFC'ed (Merge From Current) into affected stable branches. If the codebase affected are already NOT in sync, this is needed to port and confirmed the fixes...

With duplicates. 😭 When I filed 294870, there were no others yet. Encountered when I was proceeding the last-minutes rebasing for patch to upgrade NVIDIA driver ports to 595.71.05 before filing PR / opening review for it, thus, pending until...

They pop up from time to time: posters who want their threads or posts removed because they're done with a subject or the forums in general. There have been bitter disputes about the "ownership of posts". The content below was culled from...

Back in the Usenet days there were posted rules and article about postings and having good, descriptive titles. Now I see this in all social media but notice it here more often lately. A thread is started with a title such as "Computers" or "Is...

GTK Ptyxis and iirc kgx do it with GNOME GSK_RENDERER=vulkan default

Xterm could still be improved a lot. How about spreadsheet mode? Output screen with infinite dimensions. Make all compiler commands appear on 1 line and move the viewport around fast. Stepless scaling and vector fonts would be nice too. That...

Thanks. Sakura seems to at least not choke on homebrew and is proper x11.

Dunno. All I know is that they are inserted back as commands into the shell. Similar effect to cat(1)ing a binary file in xterm.

I don't see themm doing anything 3D. They just use those APIs. Maybe to be portable?

AlfredoLlaquet, I understand, I think, your point, but keep in mind that many people run FreeBSD servers that many people depend upon, and doing a reboot could literally inconvenience thousands of users. So, it's not just a first world problem in...

Thank Mythos for that.

Exactly. Right now the AI companies are under-pricing their products to gain market share by burning venture money. Eventually some small number winners will emerge and prices will begin to rise to match costs. I have no idea how much they will...

In the short term, the firms selling AI services can set the prices, but the economic costs of compute are something they do not control. (In fact they'd prefer those costs to come down, even as their demand for hardware and energy is pushing...

I don't see why not. I'm a Pisces, and I don't enjoy walking on the beach.

AlfredoLlaquet, I understand, I think, your point, but keep in mind that many people run FreeBSD servers that many people depend upon, and doing a reboot could literally inconvenience thousands of users. So, it's not just a first world problem in...

Not to start a fight, as I like both AlfredoLlaquet and drhowarddrfine, but while it is a first world problem, though not as bad as the ultimate one (my oreo cookie is too big to dunk in my glass of milk), it's a small thing that can be helpful...

Back in the Usenet days there were posted rules and article about postings and having good, descriptive titles. Now I see this in all social media but notice it here more often lately. A thread is started with a title such as "Computers" or "Is...

You expected everyone to read your mind, and was told that context was lacking. Due to lack of retrospection, therefore, you respond like so. This is how you respond to someone who asked you politely, then responded again politely: AI can...

Learning from experience. That's how most of us became adept at FreeBSD and most things in life.

Symptom of bad quality software. Whoever wrote the software (that requires special terminals) didn't think about requirements, usability, integration. They wanted to quickly solve their own problem (installing software on a Mac, using an AI to...

slipknot-(sic) View: https://youtu.be/m3I3-KTJbtY?si=miGDUYR7JSCRt65S

They pop up from time to time: posters who want their threads or posts removed because they're done with a subject or the forums in general. There have been bitter disputes about the "ownership of posts". The content below was culled from...

Today's patches seem to be an amend to the April 29 dhclient patch. Maybe that one was rushed.

Yes, today I'm upgrading my server and workstations (VirtualBox), system and ports and today there are 2 more updates, also graphics/drm-66-kmod give me error, looking at freebsd bugs there is one about it reported today. I do not care a lot, I...

Working amazing with no hanging