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I have a working X.org with xterm and dependencies in 330MB. That's to me atm the minimal size needed for graphical output on top of the base system.. It's still way too much but it goes in the direction of an independent native graphics driver...

Depends on what the machine is. Answer post 70s is simple - the CPU knows where to look at. In IBM PC the 8088 CPU has a 'reset vector' of 0xFFFFFFF0, the CPU will execute instruction available at that address, which is bound to BIOS ROM. In...

Or maybe even better use a tmux: /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh tmux_bin="/usr/local/bin/tmux" # Session name tmux_session="startup" export PATH="$PATH:/root/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin" $tmux_bin new-session -d...

Solved it, this has been missing: sysctl net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 Yippee!

Fast dots... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9liUNhzYt8Y I was hoping for at least a jellyfish, but it's mostly just 'fast dots' flying around... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOinXr2uruI Dots thots... these guys seem to have a...

Hardware failures have nothing to do with the operating system.

True, but it's far easier to skim an article than a video. Even with my method of running the video at 2x and just reading the captions, I can get the gist of a written article far more quickly.

Very good rock band. I didn't know them. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmpvB8AxZ5c

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My mother used to ask me, "If everybody else jumped off the bridge, would you?"

FreeBSD's default is "not using any GUI but old school command line interface". But FreeBSD has a bunch of GUIs (DEs) in ports tree, and even some of them can be installed in-pararrel without conflicts. Admins can choose anything in ports /...

English words, for english speaking people. Imagine the situation in Italy (for example). We have adopted it in our language and for lot of them `transformed` in italian, like `to grab` -> `grabbare`, `to download` -> `downloddare`, `to boot` ->...

Fast dots... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9liUNhzYt8Y I was hoping for at least a jellyfish, but it's mostly just 'fast dots' flying around... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOinXr2uruI Dots thots... these guys seem to have a...

Just finished a new Build: Asrock Rack AM5D4ID2 Epyc 4545P Thermaltight AXP90-53 full copper cooler 64GB RAM Radeon pro W6400 Crucial T710 SSD Steinberg UR22 audio interface (the old Mk I model, works great but requires a USB quirk) Silverstone...

Asus Prime B660M-A D4 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 hw.physmem: 68479336448

Ringo Starr - Back Off Boogaloo (1971) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXg1AxBXN5g

The misc/mc viewer (aka mcview) can view a lot of files, PDF too. Just play with F8 and F9 keys while viewing. It also depends on the configuration file /usr/local/etc/mc/mc.ext.ini (and/or its user counterpart in %{HOME}/.config/mc if any)...

I am now receiving spam on the unique address I used to register for the bugzilla, so either the hack has been used to gain access to the bugzilla or that has now also been hacked. Attempting to log in to the bugzilla now fails with a 503 error.

I usually just have one xterm per screen session. If it's a remote session, start an xterm for it, ssh to the remote host and attach the screen session. Nested multi-screen screen or tmux sessions gets too confusing. Well, I guess you could...

Couple of weeks ago I had similar issue while upgrading from 14.3->15.0, which had issues with firewall. Now I'm doing the upgrade in two steps 14.3 -> 14.4 -> 15.0, but still had some issues with BHyve virtualization on the host. So the issue...

So that profile is leaning more towards geek. Games consoles and a smartphone would be the more popular approach for normal guys. As soon as you enter closer to "geek", then you are more niche in terms of a market and you need to start putting in...

tmux has copy and paste. ^B[ ---------------- Begin copy mode. Begin Select with SP, move as in vi, end with RET ^B] ^B= --------- Paste selected / Select buffer to paste.

"normal guy" would not be using FreeBSD. Use the right tool for the job. And in that case, its likely Windows. A "normal guy" would certainly be using the Windows OS that came preinstalled on their laptop.

"buildword" must be build first, then "buildkernel", to assure the toolchain to build the kernel matches the updated source tree. Otherwise it ends up using the running system toolchain. See...

There are command line tools which can read PDFs, but without images, no hyperlinks, etc. misc/lesspipe is such a tool. There might be other tools I'm not aware of, or don't recall. There are command line music player in the ports tree, e.g...

I use a shell inside Emacs for such files.

You don't edit /etc/zfs/exports. It's very clear expressed in the file: # !!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY !!! If you do, it has no effect, and any manual modification is overwritten by the next system reboot. The V4: line belongs in...

Perhaps things like: You could write a shell script that takes inode number as arg and returns name. Or is there a command for that?

You are defining the NFSv4 tree root as V4: /var/db/backup but the wrong export directory in the line below. It must be: V4: /var/db/backup /var/db/backup -mapall="root" Mount on client: mount -o nfsv4 192.168.1.250:/ /mnt Why " / " in "...

So, the complexity of the drm module prevents implementation of a basic graphical program without depending on Xorg?

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 15.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 15.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites...

Something useful to check if the pulled ports tree is sane and on what branch it is: git -C /usr/ports status And another one to see the last commit log: git -C /usr/ports log -1

Thank you guys, everything went smooth 👍 This is the result, since last portmaster -a -x FreeBSD run: ===>>> The following actions were performed: Upgrade of pkgconf-2.4.3,1 to pkgconf-2.4.3_1,1 Upgrade of portmaster-3.33 to...

..and to just prove my point git -v git version 2.54.0 /usr/bin/time -h git clone https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git Cloning into 'freebsd-ports'... remote: Enumerating objects: 6930879, done. remote: Counting objects: 100%...

In a base system, how can I draw a line on a 1920x1080 screen that both my monitor and graphics card support? (with or without kms driver)

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Period? I have no idea what you're talking about there. My point in short: Why can't FreeBSD show something on a large resolution that the graphics hardware is capable of but X.org can, with a small amount of required data? I'm not complaining...

I usually start X.org to an empty screen on max monitor resolution. All open source only. No binary drivers. It doesn't need a lot of information. I think FreeBSD should be able to do this too because it's part of the graphics card capabilities...

TBH, a battery pack is probably a better option if you do manage to get charging to work fast enough with the laptop, as you're still putting additional stress on the power system and/or battery. If you're plugging in, then just get a decent...

Oh ick! A random thought. GitHub uses your stuff to train Ai. Let's say I opt-out of the Ai stuff but someone who didn't opt-out forks my repo, does that mean Ai still digests/uses my stuff? ...but as I type that, it makes more sense that GitHub...

The issue is that nobody is going through and tracking where the stuff that isn't general is coming from. It's one thing to take the typical way of opening and writing to a file from an AI, there's likely nothing in that which is at all creative...

I think the DE is just some external programs but the primary graphics device of a computer should be able to show a pixel on all its display resolutions before the suppprt can be considered complete. Not having a default system DE integrated...

It seems to be fixed.

This is how I switched from net/gitup to devel/git If there's a cleaner or more efficient method, I'm all ears. I only care about the latest commits (the same way gitup works): git clone --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports...

It is perfectly safe to : rm -vfR /usr/src (just backup your kernel config file). It is perfectly safe to rm -vfR /usr/ports Config is in /var/db/ports.

Nothing will be lost, configs are stored in /var/db/ports If you just need cloning gitoxide (gix) is a lot faster than git

This is how I switched from net/gitup to devel/git If there's a cleaner or more efficient method, I'm all ears. I only care about the latest commits (the same way gitup works): git clone --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports...

It is perfectly safe to : rm -vfR /usr/src (just backup your kernel config file). It is perfectly safe to rm -vfR /usr/ports Config is in /var/db/ports.

Nothing will be lost, configs are stored in /var/db/ports If you just need cloning gitoxide (gix) is a lot faster than git