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I wouldnt bother, i have run mac osx with qemu on nixos Its a absolute pain to set up and basically unusable https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM When you run the installer the mouse doesnt work properly it moves really slowly and stutters which...

Branch the ports tree poudriere uses. Commit your updates to this development branch. Update the main branch, then rebase your development branch with main. Let poudriere build packages using your development branch. Note that by default...

If it was working, it should support Windows clients, as well as Linux and FreeBSD clients.

smartclt -a /dev/da0 for example. iostat -x 1 Keep an eye on the %b numbers. That's the "busy" percentage. If it's consistently above 90 then your drive simply isn't fast enough for the amount of I/O it has to process. %b % of...

I would say it really depends on what you need customized, and how often you update packages. If it is just a few programs you want to customize, then you could just build those from ports, lock them, and remember to rebuild if you want to...

Looks like lvshmem presents a PCIe device to the guest. That sounds usable from FreeBSD, not to mention pretty sophisticated and potentially fast. Not sure about the host side.

smartctl from sysutils/smartmontools is good to get some internal data from the disks themselves. At the freebsd-update install phases nothing is downloaded from the internet, that only happens during the 'fetch' or 'upgrade' stages. Fetch or...

Are your disks still good? The upgrade/update process uses quite a bit of I/O. If you have a bad disk writing performance it's going to take ages. Also, do you have the sources installed in /usr/src/? If freebsd-update has to update those it's...

That's the "best" way and will make sure all package dependencies line up correctly with your custom options. Really only for the first build. After that you simply point pkg to the local custom repository, for example: dicelan: { enabled...

Greetings all, despite reading topics on (not)mixing ports and packages, I still have some misconception(s). As best as I understand it, if one changes an option, the custom-built package may depend on a package B instead of the default package...

OS-level virtualization is not as perfect as hardware-level virtualization. Containers run the same kernel as the host, and in most cases, if an application needs a file, a directory, or a device, these resources must be shared; therefore, this...

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

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?

I retested this while physically in the machine and the machine is responsive. So, i it seems there are no hangs, except remotely over ssh. I will close this issue and will keep using and report back if i notice (and can reproduce) the hangs i...

Ahahahahaha then you are luky. My father use the smartphone only for set timers when take pills (I set timers, not him). This is all the technology he use. I installed Alexa, it lasted less than a minute "Take that thing and throw it away" he said.

He knows where I live :eek: All jokes aside, my mom would definitely call me basically begging me to call my dad because he's driving her nuts. Thankfully remote desktop exists, because trying to guide my dad over the phone was, ehm, painful...

Yes, of course, I didn't specify. I stick to the ports system: the one offered by the makefiles. They should be reliable.

To go down on the dependency chain is easy (get the list of port that a port depend on: Port A depends on Port B and Ports C, Port B depends on Port D ... and so on down on the chain for all branches). The other way is a bit more complicated...

Of course. My mistake. Try "buildworld buildkernel" again. On my system, sometimes creating a cdrom terminates with an error, building again helps. If that doesn't help, you could ask on the freebsd-pkgbase@ mailing list about "NOPKGBASE"...

Built Samba 4.23 from ports, selecting MIT Kerberos. Used samba-tool to configure it samba-tool domain provision --use-rfc2307 --realm=SAMBA.EXAMPLE.COM --domain=SAMBA --server-role=dc --dns-backend=SAMBA_INTERNAL --option="interfaces =...

You should block his number for 10 days.

Maybe people have been reading the handbook, using pciconf -lv commands, manually installing the correct port for their hardware?

I have been wanting to build a robot. I started with aspirations of an autonomous Radio Controlled boat back many moons ago. Well ArduPilot has a module called ROVER. Made for autopiloting Boats and Rolling Vehicles. It should fit the bill. I...

I got Widevine component to show up but MSE is not there when Udemy does a scan on Chromium so there could be more than just needing widevine for this. I'm able to find my way into using the Linux browser and seems to be working fine for now.

scottro that port has been around for a while and has been suggested in lots of threads here. What it does is offers simple "one stop" install of all/most packages needed for a given desktop environment, but I don't believe it includes GPU...

Don't use ping to test name resolving. Wrong tool for the job, use drill or host. drill is useful because you can point it to a specific DNS server. Use ping to test if you're actually connected to the internet, without plain TCP/IP working DNS...

Oh... I brought my computer home to upgrade it and it assigned the Comcast dns... 🤦‍♂️

Complain at Comcast Xfinity, apparently their DNS servers are regularly rather dodgy.

How do you actually use this? Some /proc entry?

That's the error message sh gives when trying to execute something that doesn't exist. You can start /bin/sh from the console, say "foo", and you'll get the same "foo: not found" message. So your script attempted to execute "root" as a command...

Subtle, easily overlooked. #/bin/sh Take a really good look at that first line.

I've kind-of wondered about something like a FPV camera on a drone (Fedora Discussion) Technically it's unmanned by putting a camera on it, produced when I use OS tools to download VLC, and talking about/sharing specifics might be questionable...

The fibre optic cable keeps breaking.

And we don't really need more unnecessary sources for orbital debris that poses serious issues for other spacecrafts.

There is what seems to be an official document on the desktop installer, sysutils/desktop-installer, at https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/installing-a-desktop-environment-on-freebsd/. I haven't tried it, but it seems to have a reasonable...

but the article says that desktop appears in 15 release...btw..using fbsd with fvwm since 10 release

Of course. My mistake. Try "buildworld buildkernel" again. On my system, sometimes creating a cdrom terminates with an error, building again helps. If that doesn't help, you could ask on the freebsd-pkgbase@ mailing list about "NOPKGBASE"...

The horse.. it's dead, Jim.

I managed to fix the problem; I just needed to update the loader, something I thought I'd already done. cp /boot/loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader.efi cp /boot/loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/boot/bootx64.efi However, I haven't been able to get...

I've been a Linux user for a few years. Started on Linux Mint, which was great as refugee from Windows initially, but moved to MX to get off Ubuntu base, and became aware of systemd and IBM's influence through Red Hat and Fedora. I am now on...

1995 - I'm on MS-DOS then on Windows 95 1998 - on Windows 98 2000 - on ME :p (loved reinstalling it every week) 2001-2009 - on XP ❤️ 2009-2013 - on Windows 7 :( 2013-2025 - hackintosh user 🔥 (4 desktops) I have a university degree in Information...

I migrated from gnu/linux , gnu/Guix around October 25. Am really find various flavours interesting and used them for around two decades. But Freebsd was my choice once I wanted to settle for my free open source project ‘relysam’ a core...

Windows and Linux user. Ages ago (around 1999-2000 maybe) I used FreeBSD on my desktop computer with twm for about a year, and now I was curious where it has grown. And for my absolute complete surprise, I managed to install it on my 11" macbook...

This worked out! cat /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf | grep SOCKS export SOCKS5_PROXY=localhost:12000

What does sysctl hw.acpi.power_button_state show? To suspend/resume, it should show other than "S5" from the "supported_sleep_state" of your system. If this is not the case, the loader tunable can be set in /boot/loader.conf or...

Signal worked, I have no idea about the dependencies. I think I may upgrade to 15.1 soonish.

Reinstalling the same package isn't going to change the timestamp of the actual executable. A pkg is in essence a tar archive with some additional metadata.

That sounds like it's been shutdown (i.e. turned off), not suspended. In general, no. One possibility is the UPS is running on battery (due to power loss) and when the battery is low, signalling the system to shutdown. I'd check...

I have been reading the handbook on cronjobs lately in an attempt to learn more about FreeBSD and how to get the most out of it. So, I recently wrote a small cronjob and implemented it. It runs daily along with the daily system cronjobs which...

As would a good old google search (or any other search engine).I cannot count the number of times my dad called me for some problem he was having. Had been searching all day, never finding anything worthwhile. I typically find whatever he was...