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The "default" was set to graphics/ImageMagick7 quite some time ago. That said, there are still a number of ports that depend on the 'old' 6 version.

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smartctl (from sysutils/smartmontools) is a good indicator. But it may or may not work with external drives, some of these (cheap) controllers don't pass the SMART data.

You're not the first, and won't be the last, that accidentally pushed passwords or other credentials to a public git repository.

You might want to run a check on the disk itself too. While unplugging without unmounting isn't the greatest, it generally doesn't cause this much problems, certainly not if happened only once. So there might be other reasons for the filesystem...

I only use 2 command line tools of it for scaling pictures. I forgot the names. Maybe I'll replace that once. tool names: convert and showimage I don't know how to build them separated. That would allow me to skip the entire Imagemagick build.

One bit of advice for old laptops is to buy a cheap 3rd party asian battery clone whilst they are cheap. No battery lasts decades but a 3rd party one has the circuitry bypass that you can replace the cells yourself. The DRM(?) on the official...

I remembered this good series of videos about the X200/201/220. She describes running linux, but the videos are equally valid for running freebsd. She takes you through a full description of the hardware and all the upgrade options that can be...

Build on a 15.0 world where xorg-server with dependencies is already built and installed: pace.Plo mv -f magick/.deps/libMagickCore_6_la-blob.Tpo magick/.deps/libMagickCore_6_la-blob.Plo mv -f magick/.deps/libMagickCore_6_la-compare.Tpo...

Agree! Or ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 AMD. Actually got this one myself a couple of weeks ago and I'm very happy with it so far. Prior to that, I had a ThinkPad X220 - excellent machine too. Both are not that expensive and do well with FreeBSD.

Thinkpad T14 AMD gen 1 (not T14s).

Did you run fsck before or after it was mounted?

I think some of it is driven from the survey e.g. https://freebsdfoundation.org/insights-from-the-2025-freebsd-community-survey/ Who does know what is important? As in what group knows? Personally I do not use Wifi or desktops or NVidia with...

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Wayland and "best" usually don't go together for me.

Wayland and "best" usually don't go together for me.

Some variants of the x220 have a single USB 3 port built in, IIRC.

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I think it is asciidoctor the program itself that is missing. It is gmake complaining, not asciidoctor.

STABLE refers to the ABI. stable - firmly established; not changing or fluctuating; permanent. In other words the ABI is kept stable within that major version branch. This is the reason why it's generally not a problem to run a userland...

That's been in place for quite some time. Whenever Freshports got hammered, logged in accounts get priority over "anonymous" requests.

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Tabbed has a port. I just tried it, and I think it looks a lot better than the native urxvt support for tabs. Try urxvt -pe tabbed if you want to try the latter.

I have one machine, running that combination. One nice thing about sway and fcitx5 is that I don't have to declare the variables, such as XMODIFIERS anywhere, using fcitx5 with anthy gives me Japanese input. Being very used to dwm (or dwl in...

The suckless community tend to be quite good with their manpages but I suspect this kind of minimalistic tooling hasn't attracted enough interest for a wide selection of guides. Generally it should be as simple as: $ tabbed -c xterm -into the...

It's a tool to manage jails.

Look further up in the logging, I don't think it's asciidoctor that's missing, it's the file it tries to parse that's missing.

Unfalsifiable claims make nothing true. There's nothing to be unsafe on a SBC because there's no channel to communicate with anything unseen because the ethernet interface is the only possible hardware for data-transmission to something else. And...

Rebuilding from source never works for me and is not a viable option.

/etc/passwd; PUBLIC /etc/master.passwd; VERY PRIVATE Both in the same /etc/ directory.

Just an update, spent some time on it this weekend. Got it to build without errors, but I'm having some weird pkg-plist issues. Not sure where these are coming from, the plist is pretty much the same as for the previous versions.

I know the Cisco router problem but it used the existing administration channel and a installed embedded OS. Those were entire computers including software.. Spyware needs a channel to the spy himself to make it useful. And with that, any...

Could I expect to get this working out of the box by installing the Beta 1 build snapshot of the 15.1 Release which was released 1.5?

"Best" is relative, and more of a personal choice. What works best for me might be utterly useless for you. Why don't you try it and figure out if it works for you, or not?

I used LXTerminal, part of LXDE, for quite a while because of tabs. I could never get the hang of Xterm. Then I discovered, very late unfortunately, the existence of tmux. Now I'm very pleased with this combination of Xterm and tmux.

Contradictory statement. ZFS doesn't create a lost+found and neither can you run fsck on it. It's the external disk that's using UFS? Why do you think it matters which filesystem the host itself uses? And? What does that have to do with an...

I had a look at tabbed and it wasn't immediately obvious what it provided. Is there a guide to what it gives you?

I recommend the "old" Thinkpad. they work very well with FreeBSD.

I have an idea - xenoforo has ways to embed media into postings, and this might be the place where media is embedded into pages. Maybe you have blocked some media sites in your firewall? That would explain that the call fails - but this is a shot...

Bit like on a game company's forum.

Not at all. I just want people to have descriptive titles. That I don't want the uncleaned masses using FreeBSD is a different story.

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Tabbed has a port. I just tried it, and I think it looks a lot better than the native urxvt support for tabs. Try urxvt -pe tabbed if you want to try the latter.

I think some of it is driven from the survey e.g. https://freebsdfoundation.org/insights-from-the-2025-freebsd-community-survey/ Who does know what is important? As in what group knows? Personally I do not use Wifi or desktops or NVidia with...

It seems unlikely. That's only the most low-level things. Now trying a clean build to repeat the exact same problem. I also needed xorgproto as run-dependency for it. How strange is that?

The Gershwin Desktop environment featuring the first iteration of the native window manager was presented today during the GNUstep monthly meeting. This was a huge milestone for us today with a wealth of information about the design and...

fernandel, I guess you're older than I thought. :) Forums and mailing lists used to be, generally speaking, a lot harsher on newcomers. I think that drhowarddrfine, and myself disagree on it being a good thing that things are easier today. My...

fernandel, I guess you're older than I thought. :) Forums and mailing lists used to be, generally speaking, a lot harsher on newcomers. I think that drhowarddrfine, and myself disagree on it being a good thing that things are easier today. My...

I don't think so.