USB3.x drives are faster but have embedded firmware which presents 2 issues.
Security of the firmware and the risk of the firmware being overwritten and rendering the drive useless. There is also an upper limit on file size for fat32 formated...
Once encounterered this demand of users being in the video group. I think it's only a user-level suggestion. I have nothing in the group and still looking at a browser. Just deleted the video group. What should happen now? Afaik, groups are...
Sure. In the same way that a web-page can scroll off the screen, a book can have the pages turned or a user-friendly installer can have settings on different screens. Terminals can be scrolled up, pagers exist, pkg-messages can be read at...
This is explicitly stated in the pkg-message during installation of the DRM modules. I don't think it can be missed.
The FreeBSD project really needs to ask itself if it can ever cater to users who don't want to read and follow instructions like...
It's a complete alternative, but I forked Hermes completely and got it to work on FreeBSD with only make, rust and py311 as dependency. If you also install py311-sqlite3, the agent gains long term memory capabilities.
The project's name is...
I think there's a disconnect between what people want "now" and what they are expected to "do" to have what they "want".
So, "New to FreeBSD" and "Download FreeBSD", instead of just "Download" whatever, why not take the few moments to click the...
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...
Hi, my view is it still good enough to run ZFS file system. Except those single board computers like Rasberry Pi, which probably better of with UFS.
There is a someone in this forum actually ask about the concern of "zfs" memory requirements.
A...
Bun now has native FreeBSD support: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/30640#issuecomment-4329756565
EDIT: Nevermind BigSneakyDuck already wrote it in #67
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...
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...
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