Latest activity

Be gentle, folks. Maybe he really wants to learn. And maybe he wants to troll, and maybe he wants to insult. But we will see, yes?

No, you're not expected to install it if you don't know how. If you want to try out the OS install it in a VM and use autodefaults. FreeBSD is a server OS it is mainly used as a sole tenant. People that multiboot BSD should have enough...

Yeah. That sucks, doesn't it? Especially the simplification. Installing multiple OSes is not beginner material. I hear Windows is not very friendly with that either. What config exactly did you try to achieve?

I'm not even sure that you'd want to. There are just so many ways in which things could go bad in doing so. At least as a 2 step process you can boot into the old OS and verify that it can be booted into and check the disk while the rest of the...

As one old anonymous sysop once said: Unix is user-friendly, it's just choosy about who its friends are.

% ls % ls: unrecognized option `--group-directories-first' This option does not work with sh and zsh

I don't think the install process is that bad. I can think of other OSes that were more than happy to default to partitioning that immediately broke things in bad ways without any clear basis to expect that. I'm not aware of any OS that really...

Have you tried using that tool on a proper server over serial? Also note that gparted does not support the creation of ZFS pools. Get with the times kiddo. ZFS is the future! ;)

Be gentle, folks. Maybe he really wants to learn. And maybe he wants to troll, and maybe he wants to insult. But we will see, yes?

I don't understand, use UFS if you don't want the difficult part of installing the systems alongside other os. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-part-guided There is the Partition option As for ZFS on root, yeah...

Well today 8/24/26 all the nvidia-drm-xxx-kmod & nvidia_kmod binariry blobs in the latest repo are for 15.0-release. indicated by the 1500068 tag below. nvidia-drm-515-kmod-595.91.07.1500068 NVIDIA DRM Kernel Module...

The above is tinkering that I have no desire to do. At my age now, all I want is an OS to do the work I want to do. If I have to tinker with the OS to get my required drivers and CUDA then I will choose a different OS. Many years ago the AMD...

Be gentle, folks. Maybe he really wants to learn. And maybe he wants to troll, and maybe he wants to insult. But we will see, yes?

I wouldn't bother with the arch wiki on this for fvwm information -- fvwm.org has all you need, plus the default config, which we spent a long commenting so that it's useful.

I was assuming 60KB/s. Officially. kb = kilobit but nobody uses that for wired transfer speed. 60KB/s takes too long? Maybe some large packages take 3 minutes...

You actually mean precompiled packages? It couldn't bother me. 60 is fast enough to install most packages in seconds. It's insignificant compared to the decompression and installation on an average computer.

Spot on. I know a few Solaris admins by mere chance but they are phasing it out anyway. One AIX and zero FreeBSD, not counting PFSense and Playstations, lol. Linux admin is very broad term. Distros can be pretty different with their special...

You 're quite right. I'm never surprised when I miss something, I tend to be unobservant. :-(

It has always been there (see image). There's a lot of info everywhere, though. Impossible to notice everything. No views expected on YouTube :) PS: I thought I had already posted this message, but I had not. Sorry.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ghostbsd-pfsense-truenas-and-all-other-freebsd-derivatives.7290/

Just replaced a htpc and with it moved to FreeBSD-15.1 where the volume adjustment syntax differs. Typing mixer 75 to adjust the volume from a remote terminal doesn't do what it used to do. I've learned a little of the rewrite of the mixer...

Did you read the bug report I posted? Blender requires 3.13 and there is a patch that should work (I haven't tried it)

After a succesful build of my custom FreeBSD desktop, the firefox "overlay module" that I included stopped playing particular Youtube video formats. This happens a lot after version upgrades but the CLI output explains nothing this time. Is there...

HP ENVY Laptop Intel i5 with intel iris & nvidia gtx 1650 my own version of hikari on wlroots 0.20 and a layer-shell fork from rofi I made for it

read /usr/ports/UPDATING Also available here https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/UPDATING

Added log as an allowed file extension.

Heh, another forum user and I were privately emailing about that very thing. I remember a former boss of mine saying The Internet is the biggest time sink ever created. Not sure if that's true, that it's the biggest, but it certainly is a big...

That's pretty impressive. You should be proud. I always consider myself a fast reader, but I had to slow it down. And yes, I see your instructions about pause to slow it to read a page--I was challenging myself and failed. : (

You can also put a chainloader for FreeBSD in grub.conf.

For reference, this project is publicly available on GitHub. The base version is called "Sécurix" (for secure workstation) while the other variant is called "Bureautix". The latter includes email and word processing software (Libre Office). These...

On the other hand, why should the already thin and scarce pool of FreeBSD developers add support for hardware that has been EoL by Intel for a while and has several gotchas even on a comparable platform Intel more or less supports (Linux)? You...

Because people who know what they are doing and willing to work for free are a rare breed.

It is probably something mudnane like previous experience with NixOS. Nix as a package manager is very usable for correctness and reproducible environments. The level of expertise for Linux against BSD in Europe is huge. Germans deal with Linux...

They did, I belive. Especially the cloud act is a huge c.f. waiting to happen. Looking at the treatment of judges and prosecutors at the ICC, you simply can not tolerate having mission critical things relying on anything that can be tampered with...

Added log as an allowed file extension.

Added log as an allowed file extension.

Added log as an allowed file extension.

.

The core problem of age verification is that it requires a kind of authority above the operator of a system. It's basically hijacking the permission system like what's done to all smartphones. OS-provider is root, the owner of the hardware is...

.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TePpbNriH00

In addition to the 2TB issue, is your 8TB hard drive CMR or SMR? It is a complete waste of time using ZFS on a shingled drive. I did it once on a laptop with a brand new 1TB 2.5" SMR HD before I knew anything about SMR. Write performance got...

Latest iteration of my freebsd 'hifi' music listening setup. What you can see, from left to right, is as follows:- audio stack comprising: HD8-A1 headphone amp at the bottom of the stack, then a Mofi C3850 SMT preamp, then on the top a Lite...

Sounds like the beginning of a joke. Can't think of a clever punchline though, or even a stupid one.

Wow! Once again this reminds me of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in how any simple thing can turn into a rather nasty argument. mer I also don't like ricing (and I'm old too, I'm a boomer, actually). Sometimes, if you like what a desktop...

Not sure about the reason but It used to be a habit against malware because the Windows system that's running the browser or Outlook can be made to anticipate on particular filename extensions by spyware-like programs. Many sites started offering...

Latest iteration of my freebsd 'hifi' music listening setup. What you can see, from left to right, is as follows:- audio stack comprising: HD8-A1 headphone amp at the bottom of the stack, then a Mofi C3850 SMT preamp, then on the top a Lite...

they are plaintext so why dont just allow it just as .txt

.

I bought that book somewhere in silicon valley in 1992 and it's still on my bookshelf