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Valid usecase: Long ago Nokia made firewalls, their CheckPoint IP-220 was a nice short 1U box, before the existence of Mini-ITX. Their own OS "IPSO SB" was originally derived by Ipsilon Networks from FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE and cross-compiled on...

FreeBSD has always focused on stability, security and throughput. Being good for servers makes for good slogans and mottos. Because FreeBSD does not make choices for you. It's a feature not a fault. Install the desktop you want, not the one...

This is just another doom thread based on a premise that to my knowledge is not true. Can you link to a statement where KDE says they will not support FreeBSD anymore? (and not their stupid display manager that is systemd integrated, I don't use...

That's pretty amazing. I'm only just getting used to using it. I find it extremely useful.

If that was an answer to my question, I didn't understand it.

For as long as mobile internet existed. The way it is set up changed a bit over the years but I was able to tether a laptop to a mobile phone to get internet access 20 years ago.

The phone is a Redmi Note 14 Pro 5G and it is connected to a Lenovo ThinkStation M73 with 5 USB ports. Maybe I had better check which port I'm using. Would that make any difference?

Not using any since ages. I absolutely hate the infinite loop thing that they all seem to need to keep their fake-important daemon role. It's just startx for me.

A reasonable laptop should provide enough juice to keep a USB-tethered phone alive indefinitely. You could also use a powered USB hub. It's the usual problem that you didn't say which laptop and which phone you have.

I have attached git patch and the package I built for 14.4-RELEASE. https://drive.google.com/file/d/153-cxcj5etLzNqflCv429dIhcXFfJo5J/view?usp=sharing Don't forget to install dependencies, too. $ pkg info jExifToolGUI jExifToolGUI-2.0.2 Name...

The device and the charger will negotiate the voltage. If the charger is able to produce high amperage and they negotiate a high voltage, charging speed will be increased. P = V * I, where P is watts, V is volts, and I amps. If the charger is a...

If lost-and-found was created fsck was obviously running in read-write mode.

It says "NO WRITE" so something still has the filesystem locked. (Yes, fsck has quite a few ... things)

My problem is that I use my phone to provide Internet access via USB tether and charging is very slow. I really need to get another phone to povide Internet access. Anyone know how long USB Tethering has been available? Previously I was using...

I'd rather say that fsck is what is broken here. After successfully running fsck lost+found should have normal files.

That doesn't help if the port that is the source of electricity only delivers 1/2 A at 5V. Look at the numbers in SirDice's post: The power delivered by a USB port varies from 1/2 W (traditional) to about 250W, a range of 3 orders of magnitude.

Can I give it a try?

I just have ported it, I do still need to do more. It gave me full blank screen in my main window manager, dwm, but with twm, it starts at least :D. EDIT: It can be fixed with environmental variable: _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 jexiftoolgui

What's a "LU"? Logical Unit? Is that a windows-specific term?

Display managers aren't relevant, but is there any other way to initiate the graphical screen that Wayland-KDE uses, and leave it on program exit? Why is this not just a graphics library that applications can use as option? It should be possible...

Compare , we always must do, take the good , the bad ...

Things get a lot more dicey when you're not contracted to write code (not a programming/coding job) but still end up writing code anyway (devops, puppet, ansible, shell scripts, custom tools, etc.)

I found one project but the development seems to be stopped. :( https://github.com/hvdwolf/jExifToolGUI

I want to attach it to a Lenovo ThinkStation M73 which is my Internet gateway.

Hi The possibilities of FreeBSD regarding the type of installation a user can use are almost infinite. It has already been mentioned that the possibility of installing a workstation with KDE is not the only choice (regarding FreeBSD in pure...

I'd like to buy a WiFi dongle which is known to work well with FreeBSD. Any recommendations?

About this, let's thank Gleb Popov (arrowd) for working on a crossplatform logind implementation: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=290403#c8. This way even non-systemd OSes could benefit of software that relies on systemd-logind...

Google AI: "As of early 2026, the KDE project has officially dropped support for FreeBSD in the KDE Plasma Login Manager (sddm-kcm) because it requires systemd/logind, which is not supported on FreeBSD. While the login manager is impacted, most...

This is just another doom thread based on a premise that to my knowledge is not true. Can you link to a statement where KDE says they will not support FreeBSD anymore? (and not their stupid display manager that is systemd integrated, I don't use...

What if you start something else after init instead of the usual services configuration including systemd? Are some trying to enforce it by binding it to the default physical console I/O support, like, you get no stdio without systemd? I'm not...

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.