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There should be an FAQ for Linux users coming to FreeBSD.

But more spindles bring more performance. And smaller disks resilver much faster when a disk fails.

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I'm just showing my ignorance.... So, is there a device which can be used to decode, send and receive infrared signals? I guess I'm talking about an IrDA adapter...

The AFFECTS section should be more specific, or add another section to be specific to make pkg updating more specific. It's like making a PR for a port, it's specified to start the title of the PR with the category/port the PR refer to, this is...

You can receive radio signals with SDR receiver and trying to decode them... but TV's ?? TV remote controllers are infrared not radio.

Yes, so that sort of thing is why I suggested a change to "pkg updating" itself that makes it (at least optionally) show things that don't conform. Temporal order of UPDATING versus "pkg updating" aside: As I said in the original post, its man...

I believe pre-commit checks are done by the committer who commit the change. But basically it's "for natural human readers", not for pkg-updating. UPDATING exists in this format from far before pkg-updating appears, more, far before even first...

T-Aoki and rwv37 your reasoning makes sense, pkg updating works halfway. For a user who uses ports this might not be a problem, he completely ignores the command and consults the file /usr/ports/UPDATING directly. For a package user who doesn't...

so that's why my postfix kept complaining about lmdb:verify_cache being unreadable after the upgrade ... I just removed the file and let postfix rebuild it so normality restored.

Exactly, I wonder why such tool doesn't exist yet.

The issue is not installing a "desktop" installing a desktop is easy # pkg install xorg wayland seatd gnome mate kde kde-gear kdevelop kdesdk kdeccessibility calligra libreoffice that gives you all the software...

It insists on using bash in all their solutions.

Looks like you're trying to install FreeBSD. Would you like some help?

Looks like you're trying to install FreeBSD. Would you like some help?

It's a black box as much as freebsd-update is, the source is available. No one is forced to use packages, source builds will continue to work. If one doesn't want base as packages just build from source. In fact I bet someone will reintroduce the...

TBH, I've been typing a bunch of stuff into AI lately, and I haven't had any luck with it. By the time I know enough to type a functioning prompt in, I've already done the work to find the information in a random forum post. And, at least that...

For some time I used a vdev on a compressed pool for swapping. That went smooth, pretty impressive. The only reason I stopped was I needed system core dumps to debug something. And with the amount of memory the refurbished laptops have that I...

There's also sysutils/desktop-installer. Honestly, I don't see much point in making the setup any easier than it already is. Anybody who needs that last bit of handholding is probably not even thinking about FreeBSD to begin with. They may not...

The handbook is also written to cover 13, 14 and 15 and there are places where it needs some love.

Handbook is written fairly generically, it simply cannot provide instructions for all possible hardware combinations people might have. Helping new users is one of the reasons why these forums exist. But I get it, AI can be useful to look things...

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So, no AI "help" needed during the install 👍 I'd say it's easier to do on FreeBSD than Linux once you get the hang of it and have a bit more experience with the "FreeBSD-way" of doing things.

Which part of the installation was troublesome for you? Because the FreeBSD installation itself is fairly straightforward.

There are too many possibilities, it's hard to debug. 😅 And without detail error message.

Ah, it's not drm-66-kmod that's missing, it's drm-kmod that's missing in FreeBSD-ports-kmods.

One final test you could do; pkg version -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods -vRx drm That's probably going to show graphics/drm-66-kmod as being "orphaned" (?). That would confirm the package disappeared in the FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository.

You have a 15.1 system, the DRM driver should have a 1501000 in it's version string. You have that version installed. So just leave it for the time being. pkg-upgrade isn't going to touch it, it would be downgrading (it definitely never does...

My mistake was writing install, not post install config.

I'm not too worried about graphics/drm-kmod because it's a meta-port, it doesn't have anything of itself, it only depends on other packages. But this one's odd: drm-66-kmod-6.6.25.1501000_8 > succeeds remote (remote has...

As noted in another post this morning, AI can lead to false expectations. In https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/whats-real-stage-of-freebsd-now-a-weird-article.103195/ it led the Distrowatch editor to believe there was a preconfigured desktop...

Looks like you're trying to install FreeBSD. Would you like some help?

No. wolffnx the article states, after some searching around, that there is not yet a desktop installer. Emrion, I play around on VMs from time to time, but I can't remember if I did or didn't see the desktop installer you mention seeing. My...

Was afraid you may have mixed quarterly and latest on FreeBSD-ports and FreeBSD-ports-kmods, but this looks in order. Then I'm guessing you have a ports tree checked out? Note the behaviour of pkg-version if you don't explicitly state what to...

What does pkg repos show?

Does anyone know of a live currency exchange chart program or website where you can set a target exchange rate and be notified if/when that target is reached within a timeout period? Maybe it's possible to create something like that ones self.

Handbook is written fairly generically, it simply cannot provide instructions for all possible hardware combinations people might have. Helping new users is one of the reasons why these forums exist. But I get it, AI can be useful to look things...

So, no AI "help" needed during the install 👍 I'd say it's easier to do on FreeBSD than Linux once you get the hang of it and have a bit more experience with the "FreeBSD-way" of doing things.

I was wrong in stating the original entry. The installation was easy, the post install config was a bit harder than in Linux, but with the help of ChatGPT worked smoothly and fine. And this gave me the idea. But it seems that (according to the...

Is it possible to detect the frequencies used by remote control device such as those for TVs, cars etc with some sort of RF reciever and if so is it possible to transmit them?

Which part of the installation was troublesome for you? Because the FreeBSD installation itself is fairly straightforward.

Looks like you're trying to install FreeBSD. Would you like some help?

If it's a static database blob, it can be made torrent-based or some similar bandwidth-dividing system. I would donate to a project attempt for a local LLM without dependency on corporate services. That's just a bad idea. Something else will own...

Troll. Witty username, restricted profile. Comes on FreeBSD forum (the OS for tech people) and asks about AI built into the installer, a thing not even Windows or OSX has. Puts Handbook in same sentence as "blogs".

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How about just following the Handbook? No other tools needed. Other blogs tend to be the opposite and outdated but AI will religiously follow them. You need only one source. The Handbook. Two sources if you include this forum. No installation...

https://github.com/b-aaz/bmake-extravaganza This is a Mandelbrot set renderer, written in pure BSD Makefiles, with no calls to ANY external binaries. This project started after I was reading a bunch of the port system's Makefiles, and I realized...

You did bring the fireproof underwear, did you? How big do you think the install media would have to be, to the next 10GB mark?

here's a port. I've been using this on 2.3.2 without issues, and just updated to 2.4.0 today & committed. In the usual nodejs way, it comprises ~ 13_000 files, after substantial pruning, but around 80MiB compressed as a package tarball. -...

This is crazy, the work of a madman. I like it, more power to you!