https://bsdsec.net/articles/future-of-32-bit-platform-support-in-freebsd?utm_source=bsdweekly

https://bsdsec.net/articles/future-of-32-bit-platform-support-in-freebsd?utm_source=bsdweekly

i'm still angry they drpped PC98

who needs i386 nowadays anyway

all of the i386 embedded jumped to amd64 like 5-7 years ago, rest was arm from the very start

supporting the whole arch only for retrocomputer geeks is kinda overkill

Meet KeyTrap, the one-packet attack that can crash your DNS servers via DNSSEC https://www.athene-center.de/en/news/press/key-trap More from Royce here: https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/111924626712765292

Hi. Im trying to run telegram on fbsd 13.2 but it complsins about the following file: Libvpx.so.8 not found

Libvpx v1.14 is already installed

Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you

Hi. Im trying to run telegram on fbsd 13.2 but it complsins about the following file: Libvpx.so.8 not found

run a quick ls over /usr/local/lib I see a libvpx.so.9 not 8

Libvpx.so.9.0.0

Imho, it is sad that upgrading pkgs/libs breaks installed apps.

seems like there's no maintainer for the Telegram port

best guess is to get the port, change the library dep in the makefile and try to build it

@n0madcoder oh... i see... thank you.

solved the telegram issue by removing telegram-desktop and installing telegram-desktop-qt6

might be a stupid question but, locking a pkg prevent future upgrades ?

i think i found my answer: yes. it does

just upgraded ungo0gled-chromium. at the end of the upgrade it asked me to remove the following pkgs: Installed packages to be REMOVED: kf5-karchive: 5.114.0 kf5-kcoreaddons: 5.114.0 kf5-kimageformats: 5.114.0_1 lcms: 1.19_8,1 libavif: 1.0.4 libheif: 1.17.6_1 libraw: 0.21.2 libunrar: 6.2.12,1 qt5-imageformats: 5.15.12p12 qt5-linguisttools: 5.15.12p4 qt5-wayland: 5.15.12p60 qt5pas: 2.6_5 Number of packages to be removed: 12 The operation will free 24 MiB.

my question is why???

my question is why???

from the chromium dependencies or as in general pkg request?

@n0madcoder: i would say both

I guess the real problem here is that packages installed are coming from different sources: packages/ports, or just different snapshots of package distribution. In fact you always should be upgrading all packages when you do an upgrade, and you should start any new install with an update. That's because all linked libraries has to be consistent.

what's the problem 😭😭😭

Maybe mbr rather than gpt? Has worked for me on some hardware...

Maybe mbr rather than gpt? Has worked for me on some hardware...

i install again is this will work

A lot of things may happen: check whether your boot is supported and not disabled in BIOS, check whether your device is selected for boot etc.

Could freebsd die due to the small number of users and the lack of support

Yes, most certainly.

I don't see other options after all of the BSD shops like Netflix dying.

There's a hefty list somewhere, you can start crossing them out as they die.

Could freebsd die due to the small number of users and the lack of support

I don't think so, I see that FreeBSD has a very active community of users and developers, there are other BSD based operating systems where this possibility worries me more, like OpenBSD.

I don't think so, I see that FreeBSD has a very active community of users and developers, there are other BSD based operating systems where this possibility worries me more, like OpenBSD.

Yeah, but the question was about dying without users and support. That cirtainly kills any OS.

Yeah, but the question was about dying without users and support. That cirtainly kills any OS.

No, he is assuming that FreeBSD has a small community of users and developers, this is not true, in fact it is the most "alive" BSD based operating system today.

It would also be necessary to define what qualifies as "small", because it is obvious that the FreeBSD community is smaller than the Linux community, but that does not mean that it cannot sustain its development.

Well, it's just the numbers around is so huge they are unbelievable. Linux posesses only a fraction of PC market. BSD got only a fraction of that number. DragonFlyBSD is a tiny fraction compared to BSD community — and alas, it's not small enough to die. Just a few dozen commiters, roughly a single person supporting all of the package work, and that's enough to be usable as a desktop for me right now.

Generally saying loss of users and lack of support is a result of OS dying, like OS/2 or BB10. And Linux also has enough skeletons in the cellar to endanger it's future.

I don't think so, I see that FreeBSD has a very active community of users and developers, there are other BSD based operating systems where this possibility worries me more, like OpenBSD.

than linux too?

anonymous analysts have been burying FreeBSD for 25+ years now

Yeah, but the question was about dying without users and support. That cirtainly kills any OS.

just download the source code and maintain your own fork

Well, it's just the numbers around is so huge they are unbelievable. Linux posesses only a fraction of PC market. BSD got only a fraction of that number. DragonFlyBSD is a tiny fraction compared to BSD community — and alas, it's not small enough to die. Just a few dozen commiters, roughly a single person supporting all of the package work, and that's enough to be usable as a desktop for me right now.

GNU/Linux has a majority in servers BSD is quite big in network appliances

anonymous analysts have been burying FreeBSD for 25+ years now

I wish they never stop.

also Linux "market share" is rising on desktops

https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/02/17/vpp-freebsd-2.html

Does FreeBSD 14 Release support ath10k driver?

Does FreeBSD 14 Release support ath10k driver?

Nvm, I used Wifibox to get it working

Is Rust considered a good, neutral, or bad thing in FreeBSD? And why is it considered so?

I recommend checking out some "Rust-themed" talks that Bryan Cantrill gave. He is very experienced in ASM, C and also Rust. He worked at Sun and now oxide.computer (the next Sun, ie a company that makes hardware and software together).

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Bryan+cantrill+rust

I recommend checking out some "Rust-themed" talks that Bryan Cantrill gave. He is very experienced in ASM, C and also Rust. He worked at Sun and now oxide.computer (the next Sun, ie a company that makes hardware and software together).

Tank you for the information neb! I’ll certainly listen to the talk. 👍🏻 PS. Sun was a wonderful company!

Oh yeah! He has a great talk called "Fork Yeah!" About the Oracle <-- Sun takeover and the subsequent forking of OpenSolaris by the community. He generally is an awesome entertaining and passion speaker.

Yes, I think so too. I liked his talks about DTrace and the ‘D’ language very much. 👍🏻

It's the beginning. And has nothing to do with AI

Now its good news I wasn't hired by them.

what editors are yall using because I've tried like 5 editors and they're all broken

editors? vi & vim

Do you actually code in vi?

the question is what editor, not mentioning for what purpose

ah, sorry

well, I was looking for an IDE

frankly, I would use a terminal based editor if it supported ctrl+backspace but, alas terminals are stuck in the 70s

editors I've tried are, textadept which doesn't build, lite doesn't build, cudatext has issues but so far is the best, but clicking sometimes fails, so I code and suddenly I can't copy/paste. nano doesn't syntax highlight correctly.

I'm now using geany and scite, geany has crashed, but seems usable enough

have you try kate? i think is good editor from my perspective

currently i’m using codium in osx, otherwise using kate is fine for me

I'll give it a try, kde is always stable

yup, i use freebsd with kde as desktop manager in my old laptop… no strange issues

I'm using gnome. When opening LibreOffice Writer, it took a long time for the laptop fan to start beeping. I don't know what is the cause?

I'm using gnome. When opening LibreOffice Writer, it took a long time for the laptop fan to start beeping. I don't know what is the cause?

just libreoffice?

is the problem the beeping or libreoffice overusing the CPU?

just libreoffice?

yes

is the problem the beeping or libreoffice overusing the CPU?

I open another application, it opens quickly and the fan makes no sound.

what hardware you are using?

libreoffice is bulky

i’m running freebsd on my asus laptop with 2gb ram without any issues, with kde as desktop manager

libreoffice is bulky

agree😅

what hardware you are using?

sorry i can’t help, but i think the problems is not gnome but libreoffice it self (maybe)

sorry i can’t help, but i think the problems is not gnome but libreoffice it self (maybe)

Yes, that's okay.

Think 5g was wifi 5GHz.😂