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I don't think anyone has had a strong enough opinion to put the work into it.\ Juxtaposed to this discussion, if people here do want a default DE, roll up your sleeves, get to work and present some code to implement your DE of choice. So far...

Is it KDE? That's news to me.

My employer at the time didn't want to spend the money on Solaris workstations for my team and me. Rather than Windows we chose Linux and FreeBSD at about that time. FreeBSD and Linux were a lot better in 1997 than in 1995.

I've never understood this preoccupation with comparing OSes. They're just workhorses to get jobs done. I use FreeBSD on my servers because that was what the server I rented space on used so it was what I got used to using and I saw no reason to...

Now that I've seen it, I absolutely want the same one. 🙄 Is it possible to get more information, such as price, delivery time, and print quality?

I had the FreeBSD 15 handbook printed from lulu.com. To the people that have worked on this very useful and valuable operation system, the documentation writers, the people answering questions in the FreeBSD forums and the wallpaper designers...

I had the FreeBSD 15 handbook printed from lulu.com. To the people that have worked on this very useful and valuable operation system, the documentation writers, the people answering questions in the FreeBSD forums and the wallpaper designers...

This is exactly what majority of people fail to understand. Even among experienced users. People have cult like personalities and they bash and insult everyone that doesnt use the same OS as they do. This is not a competition. I never understood...

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True. But usually it is the signal / noise ratio of the available information that is too low (in other words, the first ten, 50 or more links that tell you how to fix a problem might give you wrong advice). And skill is always "easy" for...

My plan is to push a prototype into nominally working and passing tests state, and then to manually decompose that and rewrite it in a PR friendly form. So essentially all the LLMish stuff will be refactored out. Some of the code in my repo may...

Someone messed with the front panel Mhz digits? I had a Pemtium that displayed "lol". It was an optional "1" and 2 real digits. They all had jumper wire pins. You can make an impossible CPU like 117 Mhz. 😆

My random list so far: Some fairly cool devkits. One that I am most fond of is for the N64 (the cheaper SGI Indy one, not the 250k SGI Onyx one ;)). Looks a little like this (not my photo) and (also not my photo). PS1 devkit. Unfortunately not...

I use an env file to map the username and userid from the Freebsd host to the Podman container So the container runs as the same user as on Freebsd and is in the same groups i also set the HOST_DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS from Freebsd as an env...

It is. Either everything - storage space, CPU load, temperatures, network traffic - is OK. Then you don't need to watch this information continously. For example I know I have enough space left on my storages. How many exactly currently, 876G...

I now have Cuda working on Freebsd using a Rocky Linux Podman container This is the python command run inside the Podman container python3 -c "import torch; print('CUDA Available:', torch.cuda.is_available()); print('Device:'...

I'd never heard of that in that place--that is, I know of pdftops, but never ran into having to use that in installing the printer. Good to know, thanks.

and sometimes printing need this: lpadmin -p BrotherMFC -o pdftopsrenderer-default=gs

Can you elaborate on that?

axx now written finished. the pattern file x86_64.axx covered x86_64 ISA is available in Github.

Good points. As far as I know changes to doc get picked up in phabricator, github and bugzilla. I would still consider this a single point to report doc bugs, a thing that Linux also doesn't have. Filing bugs against Linux documentation is done...

I now have Cuda working on Freebsd using a Rocky Linux Podman container This is the python command run inside the Podman container python3 -c "import torch; print('CUDA Available:', torch.cuda.is_available()); print('Device:'...

Hmm. I've been using FreeBSD for 31 years. Granted everything was relatively primitive back then. For example I switched from Linux 0.95 at the time to FreeBSD 2.0.5 because Linux would crash daily and irreparably corrupt its EXT filesystem every...

For the the heck of it, it might be worth trying the anywhere driver. You could try installing the printer with lpadmin -p BrotherMFC -E -v ipp://192.168.1.66/ipp/print -m everywhere The BrotherMFC is a name I chose, you can use whatever you...

Can you share where you got this info? Websearches for MFC-J497 and linux indicate 32bit compatility drivers need to be installed. Personally, I'm skeptical that PS/PCL is supported. Brothers low end printers tend to be gdi. That said, what I...

I never really explored Scheme.

I'm going to again spam my own page. It's for a different model Brother but should work. https://srobb.net/cliscanprint.html If you're just printing pdfs you can often just use netcat and leave cups out of it. nc 192.168.1.66 9100 < myfile.pdf

Well, when I find a good Linux tutorial it is usually for a distribution that I do not use. E.g. on Arch Linux Wiki while I use Debian. Furthermore, and this is worst on Ubuntu, there are outdated instructions galore. Not that you can tell which...

Stuff like this in my opinion belongs to 'infotainment' area. You get some information, and a lot of eye candy. loveydovey organized it as "PIM" (Personal Info Management) stuff on the left, network in the center, and load on the right. The right...

You are just too lazy to set up a monster conky desktop.

Alain has a point, though. The skill level required for repairs can be much higher on a modern Linux distribution than on FreeBSD. Just for starters you can always blow away all packages and recreate your set without touching the base system. So...

I would suggest doing the install without configuring the wireless interface, and do the configuration afterwards. Much easier to do.

Why not?

I miss Beastie, it is only there on the bottom...

Any thoughts on the FreeBSD website redesign?

I know this go in some place...

It's from a a site called boredpanda, which has a lot of things (that I never bother to look at) with titles like, If you think you're smart, see if you can solve these or If you recognize all these song titles you really know your music, etc...

The term desktop is visual-oriented Microsoft culture. A graphical screen showing programs in windows with multitasking is a desktop? FreeBSD only supports it via 3rd-party software. Putting anything about it on the OS frontpage wouldn't make...

How about a mention for Desktop use? While the first 3 points (ZFS, Virtualization, Jails) are nice; I've used FreeBSD without all of those :cool: Under Desktop could be Xorg, Wayland, and XLibre mentions: While other OSs are going for Wayland...

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HR doesn't know what FreeBSD is. FreeBSD pros probably know Linux, can apply, and convert systems to FreeBSD :cool:

I am running 3x - 32 bit old Windows games on FreeBSD wine on 15.0 using just pkgs - here's what I have installed: 15.0-RELEASE-p8 wine-devel-allaudio-11.5,1 Microsoft Windows compatibility environment wine-gecko-devel-2.47.4_1 Gecko...

I have no reason to go to the homepage. I have the forum bookmarked and always start from there. However, it does seem muddled - a huge heading and download links before even offering a description of the main features and purpose of the OS -...

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