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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...

you can do simple .xinitrc for any desktop. No manager needed. You start whatever,

It doesn't matter how one starts X, one can display to the Xserver by setting DISPLAY, assuming the X server authorizes the app to. A process detaches from the terminal, i.e. console, is independent of whatever an app does to display to the X...

Startx executes xinit which takes over the display and then runs .xinitrc on the still running CLI stdout. When .xinitrc ends, the entire X-session terminates. You can circumvent this manually, start Xorg with command X and then executre programs...

Why would you say that? Why would exec (and an exec() call) detach a process from the terminal? No, to detach from the terminal a process must fork, the child sets itself as the session leader, fork again, close stdin/stdout/stderr and exec...

zfs is kind of heavy on system with less RAM. you prob want to fine tune the kernel zfs ARC min max value if you use it on limited system. I have 32GB ram, still i see the wired memory use more than 60% before fine-tuning, after fine-tune it run...

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...

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

Nevermind. I forgot the glib20 and gobject-introspecttion make FLAVOR=bootstrap commands and lib activation. They really should add a warning.

I take 4 hours to get the situation which be still not so good enough. this is why normal people always like default.

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I thought everything was made of ports and dependencies. The x11/kde pkg-descr says it's Plasma. It depends on x11/plasma6-plasma... What's offtopic? Anyway, now trying make it run fully independently of any local installation in a RAM system...

Nevermind. I forgot the glib20 and gobject-introspecttion make FLAVOR=bootstrap commands and lib activation. They really should add a warning.

I had this port compile error many times but I forgot what causes this: configure:5086: error: in `/usr/ports/ftp/curl/work/curl-8.20.0': configure:5089: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details Yeah, you...

How does it make YOU feel?

BSD is dying!

Brighter if you help out.

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...

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.

I don't know if anyone saw Saturday Night Live with Oliva Rodrigo as the host over the weekend. But there was a somewhat slapsticky sketch, sort of a goof on Dynasty and other night soap operas, and it had me laughing, even on rewatch. It's a...

Xorg keeps on running detached from the terminal if you have that? I add a read A as last line of ~/.xinitrc. It can be the window manager too but that can still crash.

This is because the openzfs branch that was applied to 14 when 14 was still 14-CURRENT is the one that is still tracked by FreeBSD-14. Similarly, the openzfs branch that was current at the time 15 was 15-CURRENT is the branch that FreeBSD-15 will...

Thinking about trying this in live configuration. (While I've never seen it) There are 100 ports with kde or plasma in the name. Is there a official run-dependency list? All level 1 dependencies of the x11/kde metaport?

FreeBSD's native ZFS is OpenZFS. All that merged a while back with Linux' version and others so there wouldn't be any fragmentation.

Just using startx or xinitrc has a disadvantage: if the X11 server crashes then the terminal would return to the shell that is logged in. `exec startx` is one way around that.

scottro Same

There should be no significant difference in how programs get cached in RAM so that they start up quicker when launched a second time between Linux and FreeBSD.

What's that called so I can disable it? :p (I heard of Windows superfetch but nothing other OSs) Edit: Didn't read "after you open it" but already posted :cool: (curious if anything like Superfetch is available other OSs)

I wonder if I happen to workaround stuff like that indirectly by globally doing vblank_mode=0/etc (I need my mouse not slowed down by random GPU stuff, but cool if it also avoids vsync driver issues :p) I kind-of wonder why vblank is sought as a...

I boot into text mode. I then type startx. I have a little script to choose the window manager, but I almost always use dwm so it's just startx. On my other system with a GUI, I've been running the Wayland sway. I have another silly script that...

Yes. The best way to go about this is to get a USB power meter so that you can see how much juice is flowing.

What process with what details is that supposed to be?

I don't know if anyone saw Saturday Night Live with Oliva Rodrigo as the host over the weekend. But there was a somewhat slapsticky sketch, sort of a goof on Dynasty and other night soap operas, and it had me laughing, even on rewatch. It's a...

All theoretical, but OnePlus has SuperVOOC/Warp/Dash (not sure what it's called exactly :p) that seems different than USB-PD. I wonder if putting a USB port in pin(?) debug mode and emulating OnePlus's fast charge protocol/packets over USB might...

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...

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

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?

he's using his freebsd box as a SCSI target over Fibre Channel. a LU is a SCSI term. as we read it, windows is not having a good time talking SCSI to it. therefore we would recommend setting sysctl -w kern.cam.ctl.debug=1 on the freebsd host...

Well, to start xdm is also not a tragedy and perhaps better for security.

It is 5G. I'm in Poland and have stumbled on a great offer from Orange from which you can buy a starter kit for 5PLN which is currently around $1.40 and if you send an SMS when you register you get 400GB for a month FREE!!! So I buy a new...

xinit for me, since ages.

I just tried Speedtest from one of my laptops connected via my server which has a USB Tethered phone providing Internet access

Brighter if you help out.

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...

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...

But you know that day will come when Big Company A will challenge someone in court as a test case.

Things get complicated once you get past 18. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G5c_7Tzhos