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This is fine. For userland applications the ABI stays stable within the same major version. So applications built on/for 15.0 will work on 15.1 without issues. For the next three months the FreeBSD packages will be built for 15.0, because that's...

The ideas of Solaris from the turn of the century (zfs, zones, smf...) remain an inexhaustible source of inspiration for FreeBSD....and there is nothing wrong with that. :-/

For those who might've missed the big news on the mailing list - I decided to post it here. Looks like the creator of pkg and poudriere (Baptiste Daroussin) has been brewing up a new modern service manager daemon for FreeBSD. From what I can...

Is FreeBSD going down the path of MS Windows, i.e., a wall of complexity is a goal? The new package-oriented updates of the OS are a major step backwards from the prior ease of keeping FreeBSD up to date. Has there been a major change in the...

It would be nice to see videos. Though, there aren't enough creators. I have written howto's and faq's on other FreeBSD topics. A youtube video is another step, sometimes building of off others written documentation or their own. I've ported and...

Is there a thread somewhere else in the Forums? Sure seems like there should be.

Uh, yeah? And some greybeard somewhere on the internet told me: 'As someone whose part of BSD development since its dawn, I'd advice you to take anything said by a greenhorn with a lot of salt and caution, when it comes to development. Most of...

Stopped reading here.

In that case, you have nothing to worry about. If that iMac ever craps out; just take out the CPU and repurpose it in another motherboard. Scrap the rest. Easy peasy.

I plan to daily drive it until the problem worsens delay further productivity as I continue to stay on the 14-RELEASE branch progressing my way to future releases and see how it's like. I build a gaming PC in 2018 (Ryzen 5 2600/GTX 1070) left...

Software should be removed when there is something wrong with it, not just because it is inactive upstream. There is such a thing as finished software that just runs indefinitely.

FWIW here is one list of compromised packages: https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA Nothing I'd need on there. Maybe if I was heavy on node.js. Looks like Arch's base repositories have most of what I use from FreeBSD ports or Debian and I...

A new way to say hooray... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoRdSqP2p2c

I originally tried using the legacy patcher in the beginning to extend the use of the Mac OSX system but the upgrade didn't go as planned it installs successfully but crashed furthermore later Mac OS legacy patches will require you to usb 3.0...

Prompt engineer... That makes me laugh. at my current $JOB, I have to use an AI-powered chatbot to talk to Human Resources. So I asked that AI, "What class of employee am I" ? The AI replied, using polite language, that it cannot answer that. But...

Charlie Brown Yes but they may not be modules you use and I've uninstalled them.

And when you teach you'll learn even more. Decades ago I taught electronics at a local college for a while. I thought there was nothing I couldn't teach these kids but you'd be surprised how many times I would get stumped by a question they came...

des@ suggested making it pid 1. I am looking at his views favorably. https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=60894+0+current/freebsd-hackers

As long as it's not enabled by default and an optional choice I have no problems with it. I won't install it in any case, don't like KDE, never did.

From the Url: " - Embedded Lua interpreter for inline service hooks" Yeah, just what we need. Some touring complete thing around PID1. NOT.

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/18/kde-plasma-67-brings-the-x11-era-to-a-close/5258247 No X11 support in plasma 6.7. Wayland only. They are forking an X11 version called 'SonicDE'. I will be sticking with windowmaker.

There is a port sysutils/loaders-update from Emrion

Anyone? Please 🙏 Still can't get it to work, and have no idea why.

Wrong. Mullvad supports Monero payments and there is no KYC bullshit. With Nord you can get your own public IP and you wont be identified as a VPN user "by the internet services". If the privacy is your goal, dont bother with VPNs.

Dont use free VPN unless you want your data stolen. Use paid service like Proton or Mullvad. They both support WireGuard which works without any issues under FreeBSD. But i would recommend you get a router that supports WireGuard and run your VPN...

If you mean open-gpu-kernel-modules by NVIDIA, it's only for Turing and later generations of architectures GPUs that have GSP (GPU System Processor) in them. And as far as I could hear from upstream devs, even if we add and fit FreeBSD specific...

Oh, apologies, I did mean the upstream kernel drivers (nouveau). Admittedly, confused further by me later mentioning upstream nvidia drivers (proprietary). Good point though, I completely forgot about Nvidia's open-source ones. But yeah, you are...

It doesn't matter. If it works on your machine and doesn't cause you any issues then just use it. You just won't be able to upgrade it using port or packages through FreeBSD repositories. If you can get the source, then later on you might be able...

I've looked into the open source driver option they have limitations in video playback. There's a similar event happened during the black screen recovering with my desktop pop up saying it's falling back to software rendering due to unsupported...

It must have changed. I used this in "production" on a HP SFF dual core. I don't have such PC anymore so I can't test it but I can find my installation code. It depends on: emulators/linux_base-c7 x11/linux-c7-xorg-libs x11/nvidia-kmod-340...

You should practice by making a port for a simple to integrate program. Something that uses GNU autoconf and make. Linux binary ports are advanced usage of ports.

Yeah, but some of that is buffered when you recompile the driver. FreeBSD with its compiled drivers is in much better shape that OSes that only have binary drivers and don't recompile.

You just gave an example of why training/practice in prompt engineering is useful. It is pretty common that when you can't get an answer to a question directly that you can get that answer via the back door. That is just a fundamental property of...

That GPU (and brand) is probably hit by the slightly awkward Xorg user-space drivers being replaced by DRM/modesetting in the last decade. If it wasn't for this, they *might* have been maintained better. Out of interest, have you tried with...

Base from my investigation it seems to be an driver frozen in time while the modern environment continues to evolve leading to strange behaviors as Xorg log indicates.

Indeed. Anything can (and will) break. But if it can surpass our own lifespan, then that is basically problem solved. Speaking of which, I just replaced a few capacitors in my Geforce 4 4800ti. That would be the first thing I would check if the...

Software should be removed when there is something wrong with it, not just because it is inactive upstream. There is such a thing as finished software that just runs indefinitely.

In NYC I am more concerned about the Kamikaze drivers weaving in and out of lanes at 100 mph. I actually consider it a good thing to have a slight traffic jam around Manhattan when I drive from Philly to Boston.

What about freebsd removing the driver from the port collection?

Those Macs were prone to hardware failure wrt their GPUs.

Thanks, it almost works: root@vps:~ # pkg remove -y FreeBSD-set-lib32 Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) The following package(s) are locked or vital and may not be removed: FreeBSD-set-lib32 (vital) root@vps:~ # pkg set -v 0...

I ain't sure what you get with that command line. For 32-bits libs, try pkg delete FreeBSD-set-lib32 See https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgbase and pkgbase.

Nothing is too old, that's just clever marketing. I still maintain a couple of Windows 98 machines to use a certain hardware debug probe as part of my work. The trick is to jump off the treadmill of "the very latest software" and instead choose...

Hi, I just ordered a VPS (OVH) with version 15.0. The system is installed via pkgbase, but there are a lot of things I don't need installed by default. To save some space, I'm trying to remove, among other things, all 32-bit libraries: pkg info...

It's too old when it doesn't work anymore or interferes with your work. Otherwise it's fine and you can continue to use it till the cows come home.

fernandel You should always update all your packages when doing minor and major version upgrades.

I came to this question with my iMac running a Geforce 9400M showing sign temporary freezes with a screen blackout then recovering. Since the driver is not maintained has anyone also using unsupported driver on your PC and workarounds to keep it...

I've recently updated Firefox 151.0.3 -> Firefox 152.0. Well, that was done as part of pkg upgrade -f, so I think gtk might be updated as well, but I didn't pay attention to that then. Before the update (literally yesterday), when I'm...

From almost a year now, amd64 FreeBSD now supports installation on devices with 32bit UEFI! So maybe this thread becomes interesting again?

# pkg audit -F vulnxml file up-to-date python311-3.11.14 is vulnerable: python -- several vulnerabilities CVE: CVE-2025-13836 CVE: CVE-2025-12084 WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/613d0f9e-d477-11f0-9e85-03ddfea11990.html 1...