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My opinions/understanding. May not be strictly correctly, but should be close enough. freebsd-update is filesystem agnostic. It works fine on UFS and ZFS. BUT freebsd-update will not work or may cause problems on a pkgbase system. The link to...

If I understand right, pkgbase allows running CURRENT easier and I like that :cool:

What complexity? Any example? I'd say they should end "meta-ports" and ports with multiple output branches but that's only an opinion and not very significant. It adds complexity in exchange for more universal management and less specific target...

There is no packages in FreeBSD Alain De Vos , it is the kernel and the userland, as any other whole OS, which is basically 95% of OSes out there except notably GNU/Linux. pkgbase is not packages, it's system packages. "Packages" in FreeBSD...

Respectfully, I'm going to challenge that. OS is the abstraction from hardware to well defined services that are necessary to run programs, nothing more. This misinterpretation is why I'm very nervous about the uninitiated masses pushing for...

Well... and vice versa; Jails inspired Zones, kqueue inspired Event Ports to name a couple. Also, as a reminder. The creator of BSD UNIX was a co-founder of SUN. :) But I digress. I'm just glad FreeBSD is finally adopting something like SMF...

rotor It's not complex. It's different. In the long run it's better than before cause it eases its development. It's not difficult to learn or use and you'll find that out once you use it.

aselia Your question isn't even on topic for this thread which is about creating a driver for microphone input. Even then I'd question whether your question is related to how FreeBSD does things versus Linux and could end up out in the weeds.

This is a Forum about the FreeBSD operating system and a thread about FreeBSD development. Is your post in any way related to FreeBSD? We do not allow Linux topics on here.

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...

pkgbase is one thing. Whether you like it or not, nobody stepped forward to maintain freebsd-update forever. rcd is a different matter, is it gets to be pid 1. But the proposal for that makes sense to me and the improved functionality is worth...

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...

Here we are. This is the first version of pkgb-update. A tool that mimics in some ways freebsd-update but for pkgbase systems. https://github.com/Emrion/pkgb-update/tree/main You are free to use, take ideas, copy some portions of code and abuse.

my 2 cents: new to freebsd (less than 6 months). Followed the official instructions and went smoothly for me. Both servers are fine. I have a bastille jellyfin jail that was updated too with no issues. Both servers used to be OpenMediaVault.

For anything more complicated than a simple word match I end up using PERL. There are just way too many variants of regular expressions out there to remember what works where.

What's rcd? That new installer someone's working on for pkgbase?

Mythos went all out and said "Ain't nobody got time for dis low-level crap" and broke into almost all of the NSA's classified systems - in hours! https://t.me/disclosetv/21344

In my case, I use a smartphone with a USB tether to my local file server to access the internet, so I'm not exactly sure what to make of your statement.

I wish bmake from NetBSD would get more attention than GNU tools. Cmake is good, though, it's universal for Microsoft too. It has lots of dependencies, due to the tools being universal and trying to cover everything. IIRC, Meson saved headaches...

Given that most active projects or new projects are either moving away from GNU Autotools or don't use it at all often in favour of CMake or Meson I wouldn't recommend starting with it and additionally it's a pain to fix when it's broken. toddg...

I got confused on this myself awhile ago. Wound up putting up a page about it which might be of use. https://srobb.net/fbsdbe.html

Ultimately. May be. But before then it should be properly vetted & we should gain considerable experienced using it etc. I still wouldn't feel comfortable with an embedded general purpose programming language in init. I'd rather have a...

pkgbase is one thing. Whether you like it or not, nobody stepped forward to maintain freebsd-update forever. rcd is a different matter, is it gets to be pid 1. But the proposal for that makes sense to me and the improved functionality is worth...

The flood for FreeBSD in particular seems to be less severe than I feared. But I don't know how much is in the queue for secteam@.

Yes, you understood what I said correctly. I think you are right, it should work on all Wayland managers, but at least for my personal use, if it ever got to the point where there was nothing but Wayland, it wouldn't be a major disaster for me.

How far is this? I made a mfsroot-based system that theoretically can run 1 program after the kernel but that's not really interesting. A solid dependency tree of world components would be nice, though. Trying something with compiler options gets...

rotor It's not complex. It's different. In the long run it's better than before cause it eases its development. It's not difficult to learn or use and you'll find that out once you use it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLZOrqhSH40

I think there are now other projects to keep X alive aside from Xlibre, but so far, for me, X is fine. I also seem to remember that recently, there has been work on Xorg. Don't know if that's correct, but I do know an alpine linux person was...

Yes, after a major version upgrade you always have to reinstall everything.

You tried to mount the disk, mount the partition; ada0p2 in your case. The upgrade process never touches the boot partitions, not freebsd-boot, not efi. So it's entirely irrelevant how the system boots for the upgrade process.

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