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What are you guys talking about? Modern gear can be fixed with specialized tools. There are Chinese small shops producing 2018-era motherboards using chips lifted from decommissioned boards.

I cannot get complex applications to tunnel fast. On a 1 Gbit LAN, accessing Kdevelop on work laptop from home computer. The UI is always laggy.

I use remote X11 for things like Chrome regularly. Not to randomly browse the web, but for example to authorize Claude Code. Works just fine. Bitmaps are fine for X11 forwarding. What isn't find is GLX and anything usng SDL for bitmaps, such as...

There isn't that much in the way of daemons running from the base system. Most are ports/packages. You have to recognize by hand when some have to be restarted. This is, BTW, a big advantage over most Linuxens. You cannot restart PID 1. In...

It might be worth mentioning that doing pkg upgrade without a y (for yes) flag, will also show what packages will be upgraded. Then, you don't have to bother with the dry run, you'll see that what packages will be upgraded and you're asked if you...

Comparing the release dates of the distfiles of 15.1-PRERELEASE and FreeBSD:15.amd64 packages, it may hit and miss. You have to use the "latest" (FreeBSD-ports) package repository [1] (which is default on STABLE). At the time of this post...

It might be worth mentioning that doing pkg upgrade without a y (for yes) flag, will also show what packages will be upgraded. Then, you don't have to bother with the dry run, you'll see that what packages will be upgraded and you're asked if you...

One way--not necessarily the best, but for my circumstances useful--is to put the bhyve VM on the same subnet. I use bhyve-vm, and create a public switch. Then, when I create a new VM, it is on the same subnet as the host machine, so I can just...

Sounds like extreme swap usage by lack of memory. Those muscles are only a matter of time. It still builds on the 1st amd64 hardware. It takes really long but a hang has a different cause.

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...

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...

There seem to be so many versions of drm-kmod around and I have no idea which one if for what. Which pkg should I install under 15.1-PRERELEASE for use with a system using an Intel GM965/GL960 - (very old) chip?

My systems don't have the muscle to build FreeBSD from source. I tried a couple of times and the system just hanged after many hours and I couldn't figure out what was going, This is all too much for my little brain to handle... If I install...

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...

When building from source no part even makes a suggestion about rebooting. On releases I usually run auto-updates using freebsd-update from crontab. I reboot when I know there was a security bug in the kernel, which I learn from the mailing list...

The cheapest can of air locally was $9 a can!! I'm not paying that. I have an air compressor for car tires. I looked for the extra parts I bought for that years ago and found the attachment so I don't need the canned stuff. I'll blow it out...

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?