Never took time to try it out. Is it still worth it? Looking at the system requirements of 32MB RAM and 300MB space, that's like Win98. Running native or in a vm would barely make a difference...
It does have a graphical installer! Its default interface is graphical as well. And it caters to new users by being far simpler. In many ways it is better than unix but because it is not unix it has hardly any 3rd party apps.
And its C is...
Hello, I'm a novice setting up FreeBSD 15.0 on an old ThinkPad to use as a learning tool. Outside of video arcades and NES, I started with an Apple IIe, moved to an Amiga 1000, and then got into PCs once I could afford a 486. I've used Windows...
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...
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...
Symptom of bad quality software. Whoever wrote the software (that requires special terminals) didn't think about requirements, usability, integration. They wanted to quickly solve their own problem (installing software on a Mac, using an AI to...
Yeah, or be functional without a mouse.
The up arrow key going to the line above rather than recalling the last command is infuriating but as per their design goals, they certainly won't be making that change just for my definition of...
Using a custom User-Agent header did not work.
I used SirDice's suggestion and changed the code to download the file from github mirror.
After over 1000 tests it hasn't failed once using github.
I will open a ticket and see if it gets accepted.
Just in case someone tries searching for tiled wayland manager, fcitx, I'll add that sway window manager also works flawlessly with fcitx. Seems like dwl is the only one I've tried that doesn't. Sway is almost a Wayland clone of iw3.
Then the correct solution (as that thread mentions) is to then fall back to a pager (i.e less(1)) or terminal multiplexor (i.e tmux(1)) or redirect to a file (i.e tee(1)). UNIX offers literally so many options to read console messages that citing...
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...
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