I know how my car works, I can even do some basic maintenance on it. But if there's something wrong with it I take it to dealership and have a professional take a look.
The "casual" user is non-technical, I dare say the majority of computer...
I have mango running on 15.1-BETA1
cp /usr/local/etc/mango/config.conf.sample ~/.config/mango/config.conf
The bindings for exit and foot are:
bind=SUPER,m,quit
bind=ALT,Return,spawn,foot
SUPER-m quits mango but Alt-Return does nothing
which...
Likely it was in the older user-mode display drivers that Xorg used to use. Xorg was also setuid so could access the device before dropping privileges.
That doesn't work without the video group? What's the given reason? glxgears work. Is it only about the closed source driver and openGL has no problems?
Indeed. Luckily this is a FreeBSD forum so assuming using FreeBSD's console to scroll is fairly safe.
... and certainly not an excuse to ignore messages / warnings that come up when installing 3rd party software from ports.
The report seems to be missing some crucial information (like say what firewall is in use, and what the ruleset it), but my crystal ball is unusually clear of fog today, so I'll suggest you may want to try turning off checksum offloading on your...
If NAT wasn't working then the source address wouldn't get translated. It's the same address in both packet dumps, which means NAT works.
You might want to turn off hardware checksumming though.
That's how I've always done it and how I likely always will do it. The only situation I can think of where I wouldn't, is if I don't want to leave myself in a position where I have to completely close X and log out when I'm AFK. I just don't like...
pkg message usually goes off the screen and has to be reread with pkg info -D. I don't know where else you could put though. Maybe with some packages have a line like, PLEASE READ PKG MESSAGE before using. You can do this by running pkg info -D...
Or any other message. We regularly get people asking why something doesn't work, and post an error message that clearly states what is wrong and how to fix it.
There are some specialized Linux releases that can shrink, expand, shift, and change partition types:
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted
Or any other message. We regularly get people asking why something doesn't work, and post an error message that clearly states what is wrong and how to fix it.
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...
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