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Being Gen-X is fun, getting to provide tech support for Boomers and anybody born in the current millennia. It kind of amazes me that kids today might actually be worse at using technology than the Boomers were.

Doesn't matter, it doesn't change the fact that nothing about the BSD license requires further sharing of the code that you're using. The FTC has absolutely no right or statutory requirement to get involved in this. That's doubly so right now...

OK. I figured out the answer to my previous question, which I repeat here: "So, what does this "root: not found" mean?" And here is the offending line from my short cron job: cat $LOGFILE | mail -s "Lynis Security Warning on $KensOffice" root...

Is it relevant without being a public system? I'm running a modified FreeBSD in several stores. It's not published. They have to call me at problems. It also doesn't contain any license documents and isn't registered somewhere as property. Doing...

The point of it is that the software itself doesn't change licenses just because it's in your possession and included in your product. Except in rare cases the original source code is out there somewhere, it's whatever source that, in this case...

I got completely the wrong end of the stick earlier when I was woffling on about the dual xeon board! You could pretty much do what you want with an N100 mini pc, like a Beelink or mnisforum. There are lots of different types, I'm sure I've...

But Sir, the horse, while dead, has not yet been beaten into constituent molecules. May we flog it for a while longer?

It kind of contradicts its own reason to exist. If everyting is free to use, modify and redistribute, what's the purpose of any license on it?

Even if any scripts from ports are written in sh, it is needed to be installed via ports or pre-built packages (at the era portupgrade first appeared, pkg was not yet started to be developed, thus, called "packages"). So there are no mutual and...

I prefer my main system to be separate from a gateway (firewall) machine. The gateway machine should always be uptodate to deal with any security patches but that will often require reboots but other than that it should always be up if you have...

There's some really well written information in these articles. Thought everyone would find them useful. Jails - From Chroot on Steroids to Full Virtual Networks ZFS - The Last Filesystem You’ll Ever Need The Boot Process - From the Loader to...

Damn. 148 posts in and they still can’t grasp permissive licensing. I think it’s about time to close this troll thread.

Unfortunately this not a universal standard. It's the same thing as people that love output in a terminal to be colorized others do not. Boot time messages go past rapidly, not easy to read or even pause/scroll lock. Then we have screen size...

Hi bob2112, thank you for your reply. That is rather interesting assertion, since most of the information I found was rather emphatic regarding usage of the correct ports tree. Could you list some of the "other pitfalls" for my education...

I think that the chief reason why this idea came about is that people ended-up trying to build against an inconsistent version of the ports tree; that, and other pitfalls, came to be oversimplified as "don't mix ports and package". Quarterly...

Hi Phishfry, thank you for the additional comments, they helped me to clarify the issues. Hi cracauer@, that is a good point. I currently need additional three ports, well, let us say four if I were to mirror the OS installation drive. So...

Hmm, I should have read your your original post more thoroughly, I completely missed the "gateway" part. Two suggestions: 1) for a gateway only - buy a secondhand / reburbished / outlet small form factor desktop (like a HP ProDesk in size). Do...

what freebsd release are you running and do you update the app using the script?

It's also rather telling that while there are a bunch of aliases that are in the shell profile, I can't find any that colorize ls, not even commented out, which probably says something about how popular is, given how easy it would be to add 1...

Not to be too harsh, but there's a reason why the US is basically the only developed country where that sort of thing flies. And also why it's the only developed country that I can think of that's right now falling down to developing world...

That's more or less the route that I'd personally go. I remember decades ago discovering the -G flag for ls and then more or less promptly never using it again because it wasn't really worth the hassle of choosing colors that worked better for...

You need to differentiate between registered and unbuffered memory. The ECC memory that the AM4/AM5 boards discussed so far are taking is unbuffered. It does not come down from big servers, which use registered ECC. Unbuffered ECC is fairly...

And if your phone doesn't work for usb tethering, a supported usb ethernet dongle works wonders for installing on hardware that requires extra drivers.

I have almost the same issue.My solution is to use my phone for internet connection by USB hot spot tethering.

the last one I bought was a ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 (I wanted to test out an Intel Battlemage GFX card) before that ASRock B450M Pro4 R2.0 (I tried to use thos as a machine to run local LLMs on, but my gfx card is only a MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus...

So, did you try with burnfree? Like it says in the output... Has always worked for me, with lots of different CD / DVD recorders.

ECC on AM4 is not worth it, you have a very limited set of motherboards where it actually works as in actually functions and reports issues (ASRock Rack mainly) but these boards have been reported randomly dying on various forums and are very...

That's a feature not a fault.

I'm just revisiting this and don't seem to be able to get the output sent to a file. According to ChatGPT, if I want to send output to a file I should redirect the output in a command, ie #+begin_src sh :results silent echo "Hello, world!" >...

Attached a slide deck on relysam (presented for another audience today).

misc/colortail deskutils/pipecolor sysutils/colorize

There's some really well written information in these articles. Thought everyone would find them useful. Jails - From Chroot on Steroids to Full Virtual Networks ZFS - The Last Filesystem You’ll Ever Need The Boot Process - From the Loader to...

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/running-freebsd-on-radxa-rock-3c-rk3566-board.89389/

Hardware and low latency setup Inspired by this thread - https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/is-there-any-dac-compatible-with-freebsd.74463 I finally got around to test if my old Roland Tri-Capture usb sound device could work with FreeBSD15...

I mean this is like ultimate defeat, but the option of running some Windows in a Virtualbox with passed-through USB CDR seems least hassle.

Krush206 please see my post and answer it. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/license-guide/ https://opensource.org/license/bsd-2-clause https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause See these three links. Can you grasp what is written there...

You're misinterpreting the licenses. In this logic, you may as well try to sue Public Domain, and Creative Commons. This will get nowhere with a judge.

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...

ntp on FreeBSD runs under a MAC framework policy which might block access to some network functionality.

Samba4 support on FreeBSD seems temperamental these days (in regards to a full ad setup) and will likely give you a few headaches but, assuming it was working, you would use the same tools as if you had a Windows AD server without the desktop...

From my perspective, this may be a good idea to have this sort of program as a third party software (in ports) (though I'm not sure if that will even be possible to easily integrate it directly into the boot process, but probably it would be...

Hello everyone! This is my first post here on the FreeBSD forums. I am still learning FreeBSD and currently planning migrating to it as my platform and daily driver and am excited enough that I am even considering perhaps creating my own "distro"...

Oh and make sure you get something with an Intel Ethernet chip, not realtek.

Yeah I'd expect that to have issues (ME wouldn't be notorious if it was that easy to disable just from the OS on software/drivers) HECI's a PCI device that takes resources: Even if it isn't internet-connected, disabling the whole subsystem frees...

I have a 5950x. I know ECC works because a friend has a similar system and he's getting 1-bit (corrected) error messages. MSI does not do ECC.

I would always get more ports than you need. They come in handy e.g. when you want to move to new disks.

I've abandoned SVN (used since the dawn of time), now www/gitea on my LAN (about 3 years)

What specific hardware is that true for?

Can disable Management Engine on Intel, but haven't heard of anything about disabling or opting-out AMD PSP

I tried that often with ZFS but I never noticed any improvement of adding a latest gen 256GB m.2 drive as cache or mirror to a pool of mech drives. More RAM is much better if you want performance. It would start to improve if you're on memory...