How did you find these packages for a "minimal workin X11 environment" ?
Back in the day when I started tweaking window managers. I started adding only xorg-minimal and then each time a package complained about a dependency, I added it.
The guide I shared it here before:
https://telegra.ph/FreeBSD-gearing-up-quick-guide-01-06
I'm updating it on the website tho. A lot has changed since I started making it
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XADE
How did you find these packages for a "minimal workin X11 environment" ?
i install xorg-server xinit xf86-input-pkgs with bspwm
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I didn't! Give me a minute (:
XADE
yes instead of xorg
D.M
@n0madcoder
Hi, I tried mount but it doesn't work. I tried with the same freebsd install usb. mount -t ufs /dev/da0p1 /mnt With camcontrol devlist (I found the name of the usb) But I still can't. I was looking at this
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/
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@n0madcoder
Hi, I tried mount but it doesn't work. I tried with the same freebsd install usb. mount -t ufs /dev/da0p1 /mnt With camcontrol devlist (I found the name of the usb) But I still can't. I was looking at this
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/
You can always allow user to mount external drives adding a rule at /etc/sysctl.conf
vfs.usermount=1
Also, if the disk format is UFS, it should work just using
$ doas mount /dev/daNpN /mnt
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I tried with startx
Take a look at this: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-gnome-on-freebsd/
Follow the steps and let me know if you get a Gnome3 graphical UI when rebooting
Anonymous
Does freebsd have file based encryption ?
Kind of like fscrypt on Linux
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fscrypt
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Does freebsd have file based encryption ?
Kind of like fscrypt on Linux
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fscrypt
You can try GELI, ZFS encryption or PEFS
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-encrypting
https://wiki.freebsd.org/PEFS
Олексій #PMon
Hi. Real install freebsd 12 php5.3 and php7.3
вадим
Take a look at this: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-gnome-on-freebsd/
Follow the steps and let me know if you get a Gnome3 graphical UI when rebooting
I checked the link and seems the steps in are the same with FreeBSD docs. I am to try but before I have to delete the gnome I have installed. I will let you know. Thanks
Anonymous
I checked the link and seems the steps in are the same with FreeBSD docs. I am to try but before I have to delete the gnome I have installed. I will let you know. Thanks
if ALL that fails try install GhostBSD it does work did KDE comes up w/o having to mess w/ xorg.
Anonymous
get iso dated 21.5.11
Jackie
Is it ok to use ext4 for home partition? I currently have Debian installed and don't wanna format home partition
i686
it doesn't matter
Jackie
That's great, thanks
Anonymous
Is it ok to use ext4 for home partition? I currently have Debian installed and don't wanna format home partition
check if the freebsd kernel actually supports it
K
Iirc FreeBSD does not support ext4
K
FS that are compatible with both FreeBSD and Linux are ZFS, FAT and XFS. Not sure about exfat but it is a good idea to actually use ZFS for both
Jackie
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/61591
Jackie
check out this answer, says ext4 as shared`/home` is fine
Jackie
oh no ext2 is fine
Jackie
if you wanna try out freebsd, install it on a USB
It is a 10+ years old laptop I wanna try out FreeBSD on, thought there might be some performance gain?
K
It is a 10+ years old laptop I wanna try out FreeBSD on, thought there might be some performance gain?
Performance gain over Linux?
Jackie
I don't know, that's what I want to find out😂
Anonymous
It is a 10+ years old laptop I wanna try out FreeBSD on, thought there might be some performance gain?
kinda depends, IMO if you actually put in the time to compile your own kernel you will get a faster machine, linux or freebsd
K
I don't know, that's what I want to find out😂
If you use a lighter graphic interface maybe
K
Actually old notebooks do it for good blade servers lol
Jackie
kinda depends, IMO if you actually put in the time to compile your own kernel you will get a faster machine, linux or freebsd
not really good at computer stuff, too much to choose in kernel I don't understand
Jackie
If you use a lighter graphic interface maybe
currently using xfce4 as my DE, WMs are not really my type
K
Same
Anonymous
not really good at computer stuff, too much to choose in kernel I don't understand
you dont have to format your hdd, do you have free space on it?
Jackie
you dont have to format your hdd, do you have free space on it?
Yes, cause it's alreay Windows and Debian dual boot
Anonymous
Yes, cause it's alreay Windows and Debian dual boot
oh good then your system already has an EFI system partition, you just have to find some free space to install freebsd root filesystem
Jackie
also, it only has a very old Nvidia graphic card GT220M or GT320M and no intel graphic card as I recall, legacy Nvidia driver 340xx is really unstable from my experience
Jackie
oh good then your system already has an EFI system partition, you just have to find some free space to install freebsd root filesystem
No, the board only supports legacy bios and MBR
Jackie
And there is not much space left and I'd like to keep Windows as a backup OS. call me a coward....
Jackie
wow its that old
yes, it's bought back in 2010 or 2011 I think, even then it was not very fancy-equipped machine
Anonymous
Jackie
I think I should learn something about ZFS then, really complicated to me as I've only worked with ext4 so far
Jackie
very different
Jackie
Is it true that on such an old and resource tight (4G of RAM) machine as mine, I should try UFS instead of ZFS?
K
Nah it runs fine
But yes 4+ GB of ram are recommended
Jackie
OK, thanks
Luigi
hello
Luigi
Hello guys. i am new to freebsd.
a little help.
how do i rename a group name with the pw command? Thank you
Pouria
Hello guys. i am new to freebsd.
a little help.
how do i rename a group name with the pw command? Thank you
IIRC, $ pw groupmod -l new_name id/groupname.
Luigi
yess
Luigi
grazie
Luigi
thank you
Luigi
Your welcome.
with that command I received an error. I solved it this way
pw groupmod -n old_name -l new name
Anyway thanks
Pouria
Anonymous
compiling a kernel your self........ « predicts panic.
D.M
Hello, who uses xmonad?
Is it necessary to follow the steps indicated in the ports to create a config?
Anonymous
If you don't put in the time picking the options and specifically setting them for the type of workload you will do, the yeah it won't improve performance at all
Anonymous
Also does having a smaller kernel size improve performance?
Anonymous
You don't need all of them for your device to function
Anonymous
You don't need all of them for your device to function
I have taken to disable those that do not serve any good purpose
Anonymous
Yes, because a smaller kernel size means the CPU has fewer instructions to execute
Rafa
Also does having a smaller kernel size improve performance?
2 questions:
Define performance: bandwidth, latency, CPU cycles, ...?
Performance of what: the browser, the filesystem, CPU intensive applications, GPU intensive applications, MP3 playback, ...?
Anonymous
2 questions:
Define performance: bandwidth, latency, CPU cycles, ...?
Performance of what: the browser, the filesystem, CPU intensive applications, GPU intensive applications, MP3 playback, ...?
1- CPU cycles and latency
2- mostly CPU intensive appilications
Manuel Sotomonte
Excuse me if I'm asking for something evident, but every time I try to install a plugin in Chromium (uBlock, etc), I only can obtain this message:
"FAILED_TO_COPY_EXTENSION_FILE_TO_TEMP_DIRECTORY".
Please, anybody could help me? I'm using FreeBSD 13-RELEASE (with security upgrades) amd64, with kde as desktop (installed via pkg).
Thank you in advance!!
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Excuse me if I'm asking for something evident, but every time I try to install a plugin in Chromium (uBlock, etc), I only can obtain this message:
"FAILED_TO_COPY_EXTENSION_FILE_TO_TEMP_DIRECTORY".
Please, anybody could help me? I'm using FreeBSD 13-RELEASE (with security upgrades) amd64, with kde as desktop (installed via pkg).
Thank you in advance!!
Does the same happens installing uBlock and such in Firefox?
Maybe is related to Chromium and the port itself
Manuel Sotomonte
Does the same happens installing uBlock and such in Firefox?
Maybe is related to Chromium and the port itself
Nope, I don't have any problem with Firefox; I can install plugins without any problem at the big F
Candy
Excuse me if I'm asking for something evident, but every time I try to install a plugin in Chromium (uBlock, etc), I only can obtain this message:
"FAILED_TO_COPY_EXTENSION_FILE_TO_TEMP_DIRECTORY".
Please, anybody could help me? I'm using FreeBSD 13-RELEASE (with security upgrades) amd64, with kde as desktop (installed via pkg).
Thank you in advance!!
Do you have a writable /tmp directory? Otherwise possibly it's trying to write to something like /var/run/user/1000/ which might not have been correctly initialized
Manuel Sotomonte
if you want (at least at my case) use FreeBSD for work, is something impossible. By the way, I don't mention uBlock or other similar app; my problem is "generic" and for 3-5 plugins
Manuel Sotomonte
Do you have a writable /tmp directory? Otherwise possibly it's trying to write to something like /var/run/user/1000/ which might not have been correctly initialized
yes, I checked that I can write in /tmp, but I don't check /var/run/user/<number>/
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if you want (at least at my case) use FreeBSD for work, is something impossible. By the way, I don't mention uBlock or other similar app; my problem is "generic" and for 3-5 plugins
Have you tried this:
https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store
Anonymous
Why?
Manuel Sotomonte
OMG! no, I doesn't know this project. I'm at work now but I will try that later. That's great!!
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This?
https://kb.adguard.com/en/dns/overview