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I would. It is a very solid interactive shell (when configured properly, which you should do). For scripting, there’s always Perl.

That’s POSIX

tcsh - because I never got friends with bash (too weird, too bloated for my taste), and after many years I'm simply used to its behaviour, mostly history, and I'm too lazy to learn sh (yet.) I'm not even sure if today I would recommend (t)csh...

I've been grinding my teeth trying to avoid responding but I guess I'm weak so I'll "with respect" vehemently disagree with the above position. A filename is like a book/essay/report title. It is NOT suppose to contain a detailed description of...

Whatever shell is set for the user I'm currently working as on whatever machine I'm currently working on. For FreeBSD that means sh and csh, for Debian it is mostly bash. And so on. I'm not very tied into whatever shell I use; I configure it so...

Same but it's still not perfect. Regularly trying to solve an error happening at the "last line", having errors based on context but not syntaxis, loops forgetting exit variables, here-documents not accepting code structure indentation, like C...

bash. I want a base line I can use across most platforms without much fuss.

That chrome piece only? I usually threw them away because it never fits well and it's sharp. It changes the airflow a bit but who cares? I thought it was like these brand-owned not real PCI cards with I/O ports on it that Compaq and Packard Bell...

Gonna spam my own page. https://srobb.net/pf.html Peter Hansteen said nice things about it to me though he may have just been being polite. Anyway, it's a simplified introduction to pf,

Bash is what I'm used to. I believe tcsh has been changed to sh as default for root on FreeBSD. On RedHat sh is a symlink to bash. We have a couple of old servers, not open to the world, where tsch is still the default, but I can't script in...

my sons are 13 and 9. I bought them laptops and installed FreeBSD, I have nothing against Windows, but they are only interested in games, which are already so many on the phone. so FreeCAD, godot ... The games are also installed, but I always ask...

Pick a repro and stick with it... Jumping back and forth is a direct road to dependency hell...

Calendar? There is no evil THIS messing you up. Somebody decided to jump from quarterly to latest and back, ask them.

Pick a repro and stick with it... Jumping back and forth is a direct road to dependency hell...

I use (a version of) the rc shell. It is fast, efficient and just won’t get in my way. https://github.com/rakitzis/rc

I gave my 11 year old kid and his 11 year old cousin a challenge. If they could put togheter an old PC made of some old hardware, without asking me any questions AT ALL, they would get a pizza each, from the towns best makers of pizza. I know...

I suspect a missing /boot directory in the un-encrypted "boot" partition. The loader is looking for system boot files under /boot/. Next issue, make sure to put the /boot directory on a partition, sharing the geli keyfile(s) (this excludes the...

True, we shouldn't underestimate the small people 🙃 There was a big confusion with DDR2 and DDR3 modules too, that took them some time. The old motherboard uses DDR2, and I handed over a few DDR3s 🫣

Your tips might be something for lesson number two, next time his cousin is here gaming 😊 I saw there was a port for a Minecraft server, that could be a challenge for them too.

Well done, lads. 😁 :beer: That looks like quite a good case and power supply. And voltage selectable case fans. Nice. Is it running from a hard drive or an SSD? If it doesn't have an SSD, you'll get a big performance increase from replacing...

It wasn't pushed all the way in, so they couldn't get the motherboard spacers to line up with the screw holes in the motherboard 🙃

I/O shield like a mainboard extension board with all ports on it? I don't remember using any. What was the problem with it?

Granted, they suck. Happy to see it entirely integrated and attached to the board nowadays. Still impressively fast for a first time.

Man pages don't hallucinate Thats the main advantage

My late mom used to listen to books a lot while she drove. I've never really been able to enjoy. (And for everyone's amusement, why did I write that? Because I misread brassmonkeys' "I've also started listing.." as "I've also started listening"...

Man pages don't hallucinate Thats the main advantage

Instead of spending half an hour with AI sometimes you have to spend a half hour reading the docs.

Any changes? I had a USB adapter Realtek 8812BU Wireless LAN 802.11ac USB NIC for a couple years, and it wasn't supported on openSUSE TW a few days ago with latest kernel (oS seemingly doesn't package the FW; realtek-firmware install on Debian...

That's where I'd just not be creating a bridge before introducing stuff I wasn't able to figure out sooner from man pages/etc :p I scroll-past Google/DDG's initial AI answer (don't want the habit of trusting it); even if a glance looks like the...

With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this change will be minor for users, it does highlight once again the Open...

Hi bob2112, Searching, I did not find the thread, but found a argument that this is due to the kernel having been built while there were still some uncommitted files in the src tree, and a claim that this is not a problem. So, thank you for the...

There a thread about this, it's not a problem

The closest one that is in FreeBSD Base System I found was geom -t command (for overview without sizes) - of there is GPT or MPR partition schema created - then gpart -p also. % geom -t | grep -v DEV Geom Class Provider nda0...

Any results? It sounds like p2p to me. Decentralized , independent and open source. But it doesn't allow clients sharing files without 3rd party insight?

Part II #6 Don't change the root shell to something else /bin/csh is the shell for the root user while everyone else usually gets /bin/sh, and this is done for a very good reason. Although many people use the root user and its privileges...

I want to emphasize what scottro said. I, too, have started using it more often--and often accidentally--as a Google search winds up actually be answered by Gemini. I'd say one out of every three questions answered are either sloppy, wordy or...

There's lots of strong opinions for and against AI. As SirDice once pointed out, it's more or less like a search engine on steroids, (I hope I'm not twisting his meaning) rather than true artificial intelligence. For myself it once helped me...

Looks like a tatami mat to sit on, and sleep on. That I can understand. But the rest indeed looks like AI gone off the deep end.

I am a long time user of midnight commander and one of the features which I often use is C-x C-d to compare files from either pane. I would like to incorporate such a feature into emacs when using dired with a split sreen. Has anyone set up...

Greetings all, same problem sysctl -a | grep microcode and the response: /home/user # After update: uname -a FreeBSD 14.4 RELEASE p7 #0 dirty "dirty"?????????????? Kindest regards, M

Today I learned that iocage had been absorbed into the FreeBSD organization, thanks for bringing that to my attention! That probably removes the concern about it being abandoned and bitrotting. I did consider it to be a fairly decent jail...

Ha, circular references.

Supposedly, as in, I think I read this somewhere, if you eat what you always eat, and do the same amount of exercise you always do, you gain a pound (.454 kg) a year.

I'm not a doctor of any kind. Except a doctor of love.

scottro When I was 24, I had to get a physical for work. My doctor told me I was a perfect physical specimen. Something I remind my wife of every once in a while even today, 50 years later. I ballooned up to 263 pounds about 25 years ago. When I...

For managing a bunch of graphical sandbox sessions, I tend to setup xdm and inetd with e.g. Xvnc -inetd -query localhost. Perhaps make it listen on 127.0.0.1 rather than 0.0.0.0 unless you do want remote access (although then I would recommend...

NapoleonWils0n Are you talking to me? ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?!!!!

Hi bob2112, thank you for your perspective. I do need to replace my computer anyway as some of the peripherals, e.g., USB ports, HDMI port, are no longer working, or flaky. Second, your advise does not account for the scenario that I need a...

I/O shield like a mainboard extension board with all ports on it? I don't remember using any. What was the problem with it?