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I'm normally a Firefox user, but "need" to use Chromium to be able to use Spotify. On my KDE, Chromium feels a bit more responsive and alert than FF. Otherwise Kononquer seems to do a great job on weak hardware.

And Konqueror lets you split your view as much as you want (horizontally too). ;)

I got error trying to built. There is no binary release for freebsd 15: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

I've got top notch security on my system, because I'm so broke I cannot even pay attention!

Having a bank account that is nearly empty is the best online money security imo.

Why don't you put a public boinc build, slimmed down, in /opt?

Of course the Rust compiler is full of C++ bugs.

Either packages or ports, not mixture, is the rule. I have a too weak computer for compiling all ports I need. I build in /usr/opt some programs I need, and rebuild them after any upgrade, but I try avoid. Emacs is one of them, I configure...

What a pity... I don't like it also, but for different reasons. Once out cut your teeth on something like the M68K and progressed to three address machines like ppc or mips, x86 feels simply unelegant and looks like some cave painting.

But...but.....but.......

Don't know if it's true or not, can't find the article anymore, but they took apart some bus controller from a modern PC and it had a 6502 embedded in it, running on some insane frequency. It was used as the state machine for the bus...

So we don't get another weekly thread about this, I'm reposting @SirDice link from above

Really? The Y-Server is an implementation of Xorg in Rust... https://github.com/joske/yserver

Rust is an LLVM project, so that language is C++.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/best-alternative-browsers-for-use-with-freebsd.102981

I know that. What language did he write it in? Who checked it for errors? Who checks the compiler writer for errors now? If Rust is watching the Rust code writers, who or what is watching Rust?

Instead of tuning on a browser level try to focus on your desktop environment whether it is running Gnome or KDE as this should have a bigger impact. For example, my legacy machine from the ancient 2009 era uses chromium that handles modern sites...

It cannot act on a higher lower level than the hardware. Everything Rust can do was already posssible with something else. It seems to be surrounded with a vague argumentative appeal to being the central authority. But computers don't work like...

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Don't know if it's true or not, can't find the article anymore, but they took apart some bus controller from a modern PC and it had a 6502 embedded in it, running on some insane frequency. It was used as the state machine for the bus...

It's a programming language. Lang/rust/gkg-descr: Rust is an open-source systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents almost all crashes, and eliminates data races. They don't like the amd64 instruction set. You can address...

This could be an indication of the nvme drive overheating, see and follow thread: nvme controller reset failures on recent -CURRENT Feb 12 10:07:41 zipper kernel: nvme0: Resetting controller due to a timeout a nd possible hot unplug. Feb 12...

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/best-alternative-browsers-for-use-with-freebsd.102981

The pushback is really because it doesn't fit into a number of use-cases that the Rust community can't identify and hence can't improve. Its a bit of a lost opportunity. For me, the language itself is reasonable but the churn of dependencies and...

Can you post your partition table? That would allow us to give more concrete recommendations for a move.

Every time you reinstall you learn to install - which you already know. Every time you move an existing install you learn something new.

Works on a 'modern' 6502 too (W65C02).

It is still very much a "work in progress", so things can still move around quite a bit. https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgbase

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 guess that's the problem with having someone else build packages: we are at the mercy of the defaults. Thats why a lot of people prefer to build their own ports tree, so they can control the options used. What may be an interesting experiment...

Or set up your own repository, with your own package settings. Get the best of both worlds.

I have a tool (unfortunately for OpenBSD rather than FreeBSD) that grabs a core package, and bundles it into i.e /opt with only its binary dependencies (libs). I don't particularly like spraying stuff all over my filesystem so rarely use anything...

Hi Mate I have done a lot of work on running Linux applications with the Linuxulator, Jails and Podman And you are right there is a difference between launching application from the Freebsd side vs from inside the Linux side You always want to...

Then, as I said earlier, use ports! That's what they're there for.

BTW, I do not recommend SMSL DL200 if you care about EMI. Ordinary old kitchen FM radio ceases to work when AC is plugged into DL200. The noise drowns almost all stations except the local one whose transmitter is ~15km away. Doesn't matter if...

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/20/0046231/zilog-z80-8-bit-cpu-turns-50-open-source-replacement-heads-to-drop-in-dip40-silicon "Renaldas Zioma's FOSS Z80 project, launched shortly after the end-of-life notice, now has working silicon...

The only way to get a reasonable answer is to (temporarily) boot the machine from a FreeBSD install image (most common - on a usb stick). Then you can also run the pciconf command to get the exact info needed for the wireless chipset.

It's the only way to avoid things you don't need but that are in packages that you need anyway.

Work to be done after every upgrade. The sense of using packages is to avoid / reduce such work.

Contribute with your CPU idle time to scientific investigation: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

My pleasure. I'm no iocage or dnsmasq user, I discovered how to proceed reading the documentation (only the relevant parts of iocage, dnsmasq and the FreeBSD handbook), web searching, try and error (in a bhyve virtual machine). If I can do it...

Please provide the exact Realtek chipset. Can't tell you if it'll work or not if we don't know what it is.

You can get a short or long description of all or specific pkgbase FreeBSD-* packages with the pkg-search and pkg-rquery commands. Use package name for specific package description. Short description of all FreeBSD-* pkgbase packages: Long...

Maybe do, pkg install drm-kmod gpu-firmware-kmod sysrc kld_list+="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko" ... Driver "radeon" ... ?

In case anyone is wondering, the schematic shows a Z80 set up in a "free run". The data on the databus is $00, which is a NOP, that instruction doesn't do anything besides using clock cycles. PC (program counter) will then just increase, reading...

15.0 is still supported, so packages in FreeBSD-ports are still built for it. FreeBSD-ports-kmods is the solution, but there are still some kinks to work out.

It is still very much a "work in progress", so things can still move around quite a bit. https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgbase

Please stop using that old configuration command. The config it generates is entirely ignored nowadays. For NVidia add a /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-nvidia.conf: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection...

It is still very much a "work in progress", so things can still move around quite a bit. https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgbase

#2 you can trick oracle into thinking you are using the system regularly. Install and use the program called 'stress' and create a crontab entry like this: crontab -e */15 * * * * stress -c 1 -t 15 That will load up the CPUs to 100% usage for...