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Part III => Documenting, organizing and bug fixing Hi gang! So, some of you reached out to me (thanks!) and asked if I could also provide some examples on how Python helped me to enhance my FreeBSD setup in specific. Yups, definitely going to...

After 4 months of successful gaming on FreeBSD via Passthru with moonlight-qt... I can play 80-90% of games depends on Linux CachyOS Compatability. You have to review https://www.protondb.com/ for games.... I have not tried playing in...

You see that people seems to be answering to different questions. Your answer seems to incompletely respond: what do you install. Of course I use also dd, du, etc. And I have a big list of programs to install if I have to install again an...

What is roux?

I don't see things that way at all. The focus of the foundation has only recently put focus on this use case. The fact that the Deb Goodkin is using the system in place of another system and able to get work done as required is a proof of...

Mmost of the tme simple use: As 'internet surfing' box: firefox, chrome, w3m, alpine. As typewriter: fossil, emacs, vi, tex, xdvi, dvips. As programmable box: fossil, emacs, vi, tcl, tk, sqlite3, cc, lex. Tools: calendar, cal, bc, sqlite3. Well...

Is anybody working on a port for Google Antigravity-cli? Gemini-cli is going to be shut down soon, and it would be nice to have a replacement.

Backup your home directory on Freebsd to an external drive using zfs send and recv after sending an initial zfs snapshot to the drive and you can then send the latest zfs snapshot together with the initial snapshot and it will send the changes...

At this moment (May 24, 2026 19:40 JST+9) for Production branch of ports: Basic kernel modules: x11/nvidia-kmod Libraries and others: x11/nvidia-driver Metaport for DRM/KMS: graphics/nvidia-drm-kmod DRM / KMS additions for 5.15...

Clean dense models of Qwen3.6-27B are better than the UD versions, which impacts performance and quality...

Works for me. Opening the laptop lid records a custom logger entry. % uname -a FreeBSD ***** 15.0-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p9 releng/15.0-n281048-6d536196f1bd GENERIC amd64 /etc/rc.resume 65 for _rc_elem in $files; do 66...

Xterm, emacs, git, tmux, ssh w/mosh, chrome

At this moment (May 24, 2026 19:40 JST+9) for Production branch of ports: Basic kernel modules: x11/nvidia-kmod Libraries and others: x11/nvidia-driver Metaport for DRM/KMS: graphics/nvidia-drm-kmod DRM / KMS additions for 5.15...

In my opinion it didn't. The heavy metal/hard rock sound evolved for about 40 years together with the tech. The musicians and the gear companies pushed each other forward. If Jimi was alive in 70s and 80s his sound would evolve. Every guitarist did.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hprOS3T_mKU View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKR2JWBEuaw View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxeMscJTzVs View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIKEy_xgBjk

I spent the last 30 years in Silicon Valley writing software, and researching how to build better systems and better software. I must have been reasonably successful at it, given the size of my paycheck. I very much object to calling it...

sorry. my apologies.

| grep -iE 'nvidia|kmod|drm' drm-66-kmod libdrm linux-nvidia-libs nvidia-driver nvidia-drm-66-kmod nvidia-drm-kmod nvidia-kmod I am getting very frustrated with DRM/Vulkan/whole-X11 breaking on upgrades (that's OK, I use -current) but then...

Hey, I use FreeBSD to play video games. You don't have to have windows to do that. 😁. Actually games have improved a lot with the latest wine.

Greetings. Support for AMD Radeon 880M has already landed in 16.0-CURRENT but not in the 15.1 branch (stable/15, releng/15.1). drm-kmod graphics/drm-612-kmod is required (not supported on 15.0, no kernel support) ...

Debbie Harry... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmsz_mV2Ymg View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvqgb1D6Opw View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5AUDxCommw

Patti Smith... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDlKTQ3Ig7A

Heart... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NONIPG07as4 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOkQ6THDVw

Below is a simple test of ZFS compression methods. All tests were performed in VirtualBox, always starting from the same clean snapshot, each in a separate ZFS dataset. For file encryption, PEFS was used. Sample set contents File typeNumber...

What ipfw can do that pf can't: 1) MAC level filtering 2) procedural control (branching etc) 3) dummynet stuff What pf can do that ipfw can't: 1) OS fingerprinting 2) automated overload (quarantine brute-force or DOS attacks) 3) packet scrubbing...

Added Librewolf to a live system. It works on all sides but what do I need for safe password management? It seems it doesn't have its own. I'm considering a site login system based on pushing keyboard characters to webpages but that's ugly...

I'm quite sure ZFS isn't going to compete with RAM as replacing permanent storage. It has to use the same memory already to only be resident. I would like to know a ZFS config that outperforms that...

Not exactly - in your code you execute cat(1) two times: I believe that fifo would be the best solution in this situation, as eseipi suggested.

Well, it indeed would somewhat solve the problem in the simplified example that I came up with, though it doesn't help in my real problem that I described first: I need the very fact of sending '4' into already started cat(1) process, i.e. I...

Patti Smith... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDlKTQ3Ig7A

Debbie Harry... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmsz_mV2Ymg View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvqgb1D6Opw View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5AUDxCommw

I have something like that in the test suite for my home equipment control program. Usually, the test script writes all the stuff for stdin to a temporary file, and then runs the program as "./program < /tmp/test_input.xyz". But I have a few...

I don't think there is a way to do this. Sounds like you could use fifo: mkfifo fifo cat < fifo & { echo 1 2 3; cat; } > fifo rm fifo

ee cult member. Never use without short keyboard delays.

Not sure I'm clear on the "list expansions" being something that ipfw can't do. Tables work great and can be updated, swapped in and out on the fly. What does list bring to the party?

I recommend making /usr/ports/distfiles and /usr/ports/packages to be dedicated datasets (on ZFS) or partitions (on UFS). Doing so allows you to unmount both when your ports tree is somehow broken, delete the existing whole /usr/ports and clone...

Very good advice. In addition it can also help you to save up some precious diskspace. Because the ports collection mostly consists of text files it's very useful to turn compression on for the ports dataset. But because distfiles and packages...

I'd put the whole directory under Git control, then either simply exclude all the stuff which you want to ignore (using .gitignore and/or .git/info/exclude) or you could reconfigure Git and then tell it to only bother with monitored files and...

More Fish! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7FDGpZQsQ View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tple_uVtjW0

Yeah, then it's the kernel, i guess.

Most frequently? screen, ls, mc, doas (+ a few aliases which I set up myself), refresh & update (= 2 scripts I made to make it easier to maintain my ports with ports-mgmt/portmaster), git, psql, pkg, python. Oh, and I also sporadically use a...

Being a fervent document writer myself I wholeheartedly agree: FreeBSD's documentation (and its quality!) is nearly unmatched. No offense intended (!), but if you compare the FreeBSD documentation with the stuff that Linux provides then...

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 would imagine that there is a TeX source that gets build into a PDF and HTML, and maybe it simply needs to be compiled for a book style and offered for download as well. But that's me. Maybe one of the unsung heros of the team (the doc...

Happy to help port this.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The first release candidate 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...

Maybe the handbook can be downloaded as (La)TeX? That would solve a lot of these problems.

Define 'blocked'.