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Alain De Vos, it does seem that X will be here for a long time. Shucks, it'll probably outlast me. There are also various alternatives, Xlibre being the best known, but there are others, including wayback by some alpine people which should (last...

They are really just catching up on lost ground since they moved from sysinstall -> bsdinstall. Back then, you could select Gnome, KDE, etc from the installer too.

From my limited knowledge, FreeBSD is always been focus on being a server grade OS for stability, security and throughput. Hence, GUI applications including desktop will be provided via ports and probably will never be landed onto the base...

I'm not following the systemd discussion anymore. What are the critisizers talking about? Now it's related to age verification? Are they trying to close the services startup framework or bake it into hardware as ROM/firmware?

No, it doesn't.

Sincerely, FreeBSD if comparing to a Linux distro is more like Debian server edition, RHEL server edition or Alpine. Server by omission Desktop works fine if you install the relevant packages Reading the documentation is a good idea if you don't...

To emphasize what scottro said, KDE is not FreeBSD. It's never been part of the installation in the past. If it goes away, that doesn't affect the FreeBSD operating system whatsoever.

That worked for you "this time" - and that is good ! But going forward you should seriously consider looking at using ZFS snapshots instead. (See my early post on this).

No, it doesn't.

Ilovehotdog, I get the impression that you're relatively new to FreeBSD. There's a discussion here about the desktop, but one point made several times is that even if it is included, it will just be an option. So, even if it included an...

To emphasize what scottro said, KDE is not FreeBSD. It's never been part of the installation in the past. If it goes away, that doesn't affect the FreeBSD operating system whatsoever.

It's disabled by default. Well, you don't want to assign the same IP address to multiple interfaces at all as that would create an IP conflict. On 15 you should put the 'external' IP address on the bridge, not the uplink ethernet interface.

Ilovehotdog, I get the impression that you're relatively new to FreeBSD. There's a discussion here about the desktop, but one point made several times is that even if it is included, it will just be an option. So, even if it included an...

I usually just plug the USB-C from the power supply of the laptop directly into the phone. But keep that phone with open case and good ventilated, mine can fast charge the one-week battery in 2h.

An evergreen trick is writing the title after the post, not before.

You could read the quarterly status reports from time to time. https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2026-01-2026-03

If FreeBSD dismisses X11 (and go wayland with KDE), I will dismiss FreeBSD.

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The one shipped with OS.

Cgit has been quite flaky lately. I would suggest changing the URL and fetching the file from Github, Gitlab or one of the other "big" repository mirrors.

No, there's no way to "convert" a non-PD USB socket to a powered one. A standard USB 2.0 port can only deliver about 500 mA @ 5V, USB 3.0 extended this to about ~1A @ 5V. A USB-PD 3.1 port can deliver 5A @ 48V. So, in order to add PD to an...

I have found that the cable you use has some bearing on whether fast charging works. I have a Baseus 100W GaN charger and fast charge only works when I use a cable with USB-C connectors at either end. A supposed fast charge cable does not work...

Should I simply assume that this is a routing problem with my provider and has nothing to do with anything in my own setup?

That is the IP address provided when I run dhclient ue0 after I enable USB tethering on my phone.

Mine doesn't. Is there any device I can install to provide such a capability? Apologies if this is a dumb question.

This leaves me confused. Do I need both options in /etc/exports ?

What version of iocage do you have?

Can anyone explain what is happening when I get a response like that above? I just got something similar after tethering via USB. I don't normally, but wondered what the cause was.

Fast charging a phone is a mystery to me. Some cables can do it others can't not sure what it depends on. However, is there any way I can get a laptop to fast charge a phone?

Back in the 1980s the Australian Unix Systems User Group was very active and had bi-annual conferences with lots of interesting keynote speakers. Richard Miller was one of them, on the subject of the Interdata V6 Unix port. I also remember...

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Transcend Jetflash 930c 400 MB/s write speed

That's been my experience and it doesn't seem to matter much whether it's Linux, Windows or FreeBSD, none of them seem super fast with regular thumbdrives, especially with smaller files. I have noticed that the M.2 enclosure option is extremely...

Don't do thumb drives, especially not when you care about speed. Get a M.2 to USB enclosure and a matching M.2 drive,

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...

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

An evergreen trick is writing the title after the post, not before.

This is of course a bug in FreeBSD.

point is...you can take the quick heavyweight fix and have your problem solved in a short time, or continue to look for the magic bullet and spend far more resources with no payoff. I understand the value of understanding the cause of the...

I plan to mess with urxvtd/urxvtc inside tabbed Real Soon Now.

Speaking as a narcissist, I would have to say that I *like* the fact that effort is going into improving wireless. I have a Thinkpad T495 with a card that gets slow speeds on FreeBSD. (Actually, last time I checked, so did the USBs that were...

And I've watched hundreds of millions of dollars wasted by people who abused data and inference to agree with their confirmation bias. If there's one thing AI does well is confirm your biases.

What I have in hand and worked as DAC (as a DAP is included) on FreeBSD at least the last time I've tested are: CHORD Mojo SOUND GEAR PAV-HADSD FiiO Q3(2021) FiiO M11 (DAP, USB DAC mode) FiiO E7 Note that I'm mostly using CHORD Mojo now, but...

Aune mini USB DAC MK2 SE This is a combination USB DAC and headphone amplifier; an ideal add-on for something like a mini-pc or a laptop. I tested it with USB using the X220 and Sennheiser HD650, it works fine with Freebsd 14.4 Release, using...

Speaking as a narcissist, I would have to say that I *like* the fact that effort is going into improving wireless. I have a Thinkpad T495 with a card that gets slow speeds on FreeBSD. (Actually, last time I checked, so did the USBs that were...

Since a month or 6, my main PC needs a heavy aquarium stone placed above the front USB ports to avoid extremely annoying case resonance of the coolant engine. I tried a lot but I can't fix it. The stone must stay forever.

I'm running an Ivy Bridge i7. It doesn't have a fan on it but I have a multi-fin cooling tower on it. I pulled the nvidia card for reasons I said elsewhere. iirc, this is the same temperature it was running the last time I checked who knows how...

If only it was command line and you could enter the currencies you were interested in. I'll see what lynx produces.

iSCSI allows you to share physical storage but only *one* client (initiator) can access a given storage volume (LUN) while NFS allows more than one client to access the same file so even if you use an iSCSI device for NFS storage you still have...