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So I have just installed FreeBSD 14.4-release-p7 (ok, I installed 14.4-release and used freebsd-update to get to -p7) on a new partition on the SSD of my workstation. And suddenly, pkg is slow to update it's database (the "processing entries"...

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.

"pkg set -p -n py311-:py312- && pkg upgrade". This may fail if you have a mix of 311 and 312 pkgs and will require a few iterations (including using "pkg check -d" etc.). But you should really keep an eye on /usr/ports/UPDATING!

You don't need to use chromium for spotify: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/widevine-cdm-l3-on-native-firefox.101179/

No Rust? Disappoint

aarch64/arm64 with n283582-0f691888dc56 seems fine (can connect to a share I made a week ago 423; testparm /usr/local/etc/smb4.conf shows conf)

No.

You can apply the FreeBSD port patches, and then ./configure --prefix /opt/boinc && make && make install in the workdir. That way you'll have a working boinc with your options frozen in time that won't be touched by pkg. Of course you will have...

Oh. And so does cracauer@

mer gets my point.

Ha kind of like lawyers deciding if other lawyers violated code of ethics. :) That's a joke as it relates to Rust/Rust Foundation, but not so much as it relates to lawyers. But does OCaml go directly to machine code or some intermediate (think...

It's not a rule. It's a precaution. You have to be careful which packages and ports get installed and from which build. People do it. I have. But it's not something to be taken lightly.

Keep in mind that the whole IR to machine language translation in LLVM is C++ - regardless of what the specific language frontend is built in. Just the number of bugs lurking in there should be staggering.

Yes, while you do end up with multiple copies of i.e zlib, they are encapsulated within a single folder that can be upgraded by simply deleting and replacing. In UNIX terms, agreed, this is bloated (uses more filesystem) but logically it is...

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...

You can apply the FreeBSD port patches, and then ./configure --prefix /opt/boinc && make && make install in the workdir. That way you'll have a working boinc with your options frozen in time that won't be touched by pkg. Of course you will have...

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.