Hmm, I admit that the handbook, on the Xorg setup part is a sure way to get a non working X11 environment due to the way gpus and drm have evolved (i.e. modesetting is the way for most recent gpus) and Nvidia can also trip up some stuff, but it...
Support for wireless network cards has certainly been lacking, that's true. Drivers for hardware don't appear out of thin air though, those drivers need to be coded. And the manufactures of those chipsets often don't help at all. No datasheets...
This is the misunderstanding.
FreeBSD will never be built to be "easy" for "ordinary desktop users".
FreeBSD is an OS for technical people through and through. It can be an optimal desktop for them. For anyone else, it is not.
Yes and they are...
First, I handled the disk partitioning. Since I’ve been through many Linux and BSD installations over the years, this step was straightforward and uneventful.
Then came the graphics driver. I spent a considerable amount of time digging through...
A valid example of the output is the following:
Starting network autotuner (host=8.8.8.8, iface=wlan0, interval=60s)
Simulation mode active (dry-run): no changes applied, only logged.
[DRY-RUN] net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto=1 ->...
This looks like a cool utility, thank you.
My shell is a little rusty, but it does not look like it tests against the environment variable TARGET_HOST when running this from a shell (with the -n flag)? Perhaps it is not intended to be used this...
What's the question or point - I do not mean that offensively, I'm just not sure what you are asking or saying?
So far as I know, you can run FreeBSD where you want and how you want.
There were times when I wished I just put all my components onto a board without a case. All parts are easily accessible when you want to swap things around or experiment. It's just inconvenient most of the time and takes up too much space in an...
To be serious, in a joke thread, I think that the news, daily, is so bad, that right now, I need total silliness like the SNL skit I posted above. Chief clown. That's a nicer title than many I've heard, and as accurate as any. As we haven't said...
Currently my need for even more comedy from the land of the funny is pretty limited. Sorry, but I already have way more than enough laughs than I can deal with when I drive to the filling station or see the news. Very funny, what this chief clown...
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.
It depends. At least in the Netherlands. If you were tasked with writing the code, then it doesn't matter if you wrote that code in your spare time or not, it's still owned by the company.
FreeBSD has "the power to serve", how you're going to use this is fully up to you. And it even provides native Hyper-V support, and I can tell you that it's quite effective.
Keep in mind that the mindset here is - generally speaking - much more...
A (thin) jailed Bhyve runs a number of Linux VMs. The storage for each VM is allocated in ZFS Volumes. I ran into the following issues while getting this latest one running:
vm-bhyve: there was a persistent failure to start the VM reported as...
Why? What made you worry about this?
With regards to "Which forum to post in", it entirely depends on the core of the problem. If it's an issue that's related to virtualization "Emulation and Virtualization". Anything else can be posted in a...
You're fine! Virtualization is cool and there's a subforum for it:
https://forums.freebsd.org/forums/emulation-and-virtualization.51/
I prefer local VMs vs cloud :p
Hello, I'm Porter. I've been using FreeBSD and the other BSD and Unix-like operating systems for nearly twenty-six years on and off. I don't really run FreeBSD on bare metal these days because I can't afford a "modern" bare metal to run it on. So...
I run it daily on a 19 year old laptop (among others) and it runs nicely. You can pick old systems up very cheaply these days because many people regard them as junk because they can't run the latest version of Windows.
Small nitpick here - LLMs do not "understand" and do not have "own words". At least I saw no indication to that, but there may be somewhere.
What we need is a new word, I think. How would someone describe the process of what LLMs do? Stealing it...
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.
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...
I think you misunderstood, or read in the diagonal, what I wrote.
I never said that FreeBSD Desktop is not possible, I said that FreeBSD is an OS that by default is geared to servers. If you want to make it a desktop you just need to install the...
It's about KDE running on a graphical screen provided by the Wayland display server? I have it installed as dependency of something X-related but never used it specifically. Is it possible to run a Wayland screen without anything else and not...
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...
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...
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...
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