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I couldn't care less. Minor upgrades are quite fast and for release-updates one is planning a reasonable downtime anyways. This sounds like that bogus and completely useless "it boots faster" argument we all heard once... A tried and proven...

It's still optional. It just uses the same tools for updating the system as we use for packages. Right now, you can stick with freebsd-update if that's what you're comfortable with, but on the whole the pkgbase seems to be fine. You don't have...

BTW, I never heard of Pkgbase. Is there any specific benefit over freebsd-update? I am not completely new to FreeBSD, but I had a long pause, and when I left I wasn't exactly an expert.

TBH, I wouldn't personally bother trying to move disk partitions over, even when it does work it can get messy. If you've got the option, it's probably the most straightforward to just do a completely new install on the new disk and then transfer...

Your experience was rather different to mine. I felt the process was better. The first host was slower than the subsequent hosts. I had things to learn and questions to ask. But then, I also had similar questions over my years of using...

Hi, reading the comments: I am using UFS, as I am limited on RAM and I understand the logic of it much better. I am on 15.0-Release 9 And I am using BIOS, not UEFI For what I read, It would be better to reinstall, I might want to find another...

The ends are invisible operating system background processes. The user is only a user. People really buy this, unfortunately.

TBH, I wouldn't personally bother trying to move disk partitions over, even when it does work it can get messy. If you've got the option, it's probably the most straightforward to just do a completely new install on the new disk and then transfer...

You can strip it down. List all related executables and binary dependencies. What's left is program-specific expectations. Does a config file or directory has to exist somewhere? Currently having a similar problem. My firefox install stopped...

I am quite aware this forum is for FreeBSD. I am asking other FreeBSD users if they have experienced a similar issue. I'm pretty sure that's very clear in the post. At any rate, that matter has been resolved. KVM's latest version requires...

That is the "tail" (for lack of a better word) of the boot script that ran when you started the machine.

Your experience was rather different to mine. I felt the process was better. The first host was slower than the subsequent hosts. I had things to learn and questions to ask. But then, I also had similar questions over my years of using...

I am quite aware this forum is for FreeBSD. I am asking other FreeBSD users if they have experienced a similar issue. I'm pretty sure that's very clear in the post. At any rate, that matter has been resolved. KVM's latest version requires...

Does this mean new-WoW64 will work on next Wine release? (looks merged a few days after 11.13) https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/8073

Kids should only have dial-up speeds; it'll encourage prioritizing (good luck infinite short video scrolling :cool:)

You're asking for a list of interfaces here, not a list of ioctls. I believe, in order to obtain a list of interfaces, it ought to make an ioctl request to the controlling device, and this request fails, that's what the error about. The only...

Looks like you did hit 293273, which implies that you still have mesa-devel on the i386 side (with pkg32.sh) installed. While here: This is counterproductive because DXVK translates OpenGL to Vulkan, so it’s obvious that nothing will work...

PHK on the future of FOSS https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307

I'm writing a shell script that helps me to manage wireless network (WiFi) connections in a convenient manner. I want to be able to retrieve the status of a particular interface. For instance, I've successfully connected to a network using...

Indeed moving around partitions on FreeBSD is no simple task. gparted LiveCD supports moving pretty nicely.. It almost feels like "Partition Magic". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PartitionMagic

This kind of threads are an horror. Such things are also my experience and a reason to take risk and not upgrade.

Kids should only have dial-up speeds; it'll encourage prioritizing (good luck infinite short video scrolling :cool:)

I've had a small FreeBSD system hosted on Vultr for about 8 years. It is currently running 15.1-RELEASE. It is using ufs. On the 18th Vultr had a maintenance window to update KVM to address a "critical Linux KVM vulnerability". They didn't...

Espionage724 I'll take a look, thanks! Have tried Wayland now, same problem.

Edit: Might be radeonkms for HD4250: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-configuration-amd And radeon xorg.conf: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-config-gpu I didn't see HD4250 before and that might need a...

About the stupid age thing, I said in other threads and hinted here, it is a consequence of tech bros pushing technology where it doesn't belong, mixed with tech-inept rulers that are simply incapable to come up with an optimal solution and thus...

No no I am not talking about age verification, I am talking about mass TLS. Also take in account that in Europe especially in smaller countries we do not have an Orwellian style agencies that retent and warehouse historic user data and such, but...

Excellent article by phk, hits to bottom of things, the states have not only right, but obligations to pursue criminals. The "tech bros" sought to create a parallel environment where their regulation governs the affairs, well, that is simply not...

PHK on the future of FOSS https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307

That's why I sugested "ask the maintainer if he can create a -tiny flavor" We have "emacs" and "emacs-nox" so why not ask for similar? Edit: Honestly this is the prime tradeoff between "using prebuilt packages" and "building everything from...

That's why I sugested "ask the maintainer if he can create a -tiny flavor" We have "emacs" and "emacs-nox" so why not ask for similar? Edit: Honestly this is the prime tradeoff between "using prebuilt packages" and "building everything from...

That's why I sugested "ask the maintainer if he can create a -tiny flavor" We have "emacs" and "emacs-nox" so why not ask for similar? Edit: Honestly this is the prime tradeoff between "using prebuilt packages" and "building everything from...

I must bookmark this page.

Weak Quotes with the Double Quotes versus Strong Quoting with the Single Quotes

Its weird because that vehicle has an engine, it isn't a bicycle anymore. I know the UK is struggling to classify those but it looks pretty clear cut to me.

Your experience was rather different to mine. I felt the process was better. The first host was slower than the subsequent hosts. I had things to learn and questions to ask. But then, I also had similar questions over my years of using...

Yes. And ubuntu offers to install it separately what I of course did not do. 650 MB only to have a GUI. Otherwise only 1,4 MB. Out of proportion! But to install it, I would need to install the whole ports tree, and I do not want to...

The boinc-client port has the optional GUI manager enabled by default. This depends on wx32-gtk3, causing packages such as webkit2-gtk_41 to be installed.

It seems some libs were preinstalled. But this still does not justify 650MB. Package dependencies in ubuntu And in FreeBSD

Here are the FreeBSD shared libs for boinc: /usr/local/bin/boinc: libexecinfo.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexecinfo.so.1 (0x145747a30000) libcurl.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4 (0x145747bfe000) libssl.so.35 =>...

While Mint seems to have boinc, a debootstrapped Ubuntu Noble knows nothing about it. The install instructions for boinc for Ubuntu say you need to add a package mirror from Berkeley. That seems to indicate that it isn't Ubuntu that installs...

Packages are convenience items to cover every possible user. Your ubuntu installation cripples you if you needed some of that functionality. If you want something more custom to your needs, that's what ports are for. There you can usually...

Try to uncomment the ntalk line in inetd.conf: # ntalk is required for the 'talk' utility to work correctly ntalk dgram udp wait tty:tty /usr/libexec/ntalkd ntalkd Then either add inetd_enable="YES" in your rc.conf, if you...

boinc on Mint looks plenty bloated to me: ~(grisu)2180% ldd `which boinc` linux-vdso.so.1 (0x0000771a6e3a9000) libboinc.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboinc.so.7 (0x0000771a6e175000) libboinc_crypt.so.7 =>...

I am fed up! I installed boinc-client in ubuntu, it took very few megabytes. boinc-client in FreeBSD downloads 657 MB. This is an overall experience. FreeBSD packages have all dependencies, here gtk, although the program is for a server. In...

Your single-quotes symbols block variable evaluation, if you still need them for whatever reason, you can use: sed 's/^#ServerName.*$/ServerName '$IP'/g' httpd.conf.tmp

So double quotes rather than single quotes!

sed "s/^#ServerName.*$/ServerName $IP/g" httpd.conf.tmp

This outcome of a walled garden is what is seen as "user-friendly". Loads of people are asking for that kind of crap, even on these forums (easy installers, easy init systems, easy gui tooling). You can't escape it unless you migrate to a...

I am afraid for the future of FOSS. It is a scary world where rebellion has been quelled. Ironic that ARAPANET turned out to be one of the greatest advances in communications. Then was killed by control.