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    Sublime Text, Ubuntu and SwayWM

    Hi, The official documentation describe the Sublime Text installation in context to a Linux C7 environment. Upcoming warnings shows, that C7 will not more supported. In this case I tried to install Ubuntu and Sublime Text, but Sublime Text will not start and no error message shows why. What is...
  2. LibreQuest

    FreeBSD user agent in Firefox and Chromium is Linux 64 bit

    I was curious as to what OS I appear as on different servers and check out a website called https://whatsmyos.com/ Both Chromium and Firefox show that I am running Linux. Luakit shows that I am running FreeBSD 64bit. I wonder how many metrics are measuring web traffic and counting FreeBSD as...
  3. Freedom

    general/other Anybody running FreeBSD as guest on their laptop? Which minimal Linux hypervisor setup would you recommend?

    Hi, I am considering running FreeBSD as my "main" OS on my laptop. I understand hardware support will be the big pain point (as I am not ready to by a new laptop yet) and I was thinking about avoiding it for now in this way: - I would run minimal a Linux hypervisor (minimal in the sense I...
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    Solved Unable to connect to Ubuntu Linux hosted NFS share from FreeBSD VM guest

    I have a NFS share exported from a Ubuntu Linux system, with the /exports looking as follows: /nfs/directory 192.168.21.239(rw,sync,no_subtree_check) then confirm the export is being shared with showmount -e 192.168.21.2 from the FreeBSD VM guest and finally try to mount with mount -vvv -t nfs...
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    How to replicate objdir-writable.mk unit-test failure on samba share

    I am trying to build Freebsd repo in a sambashare on linux. I keep on failing on https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/contrib/bmake/unit-tests/objdir-writable.mk . The error output consists of...
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    Why the continued separation from Linux?

    Sorry if this is offensive, but why the continued separation from Linux? I know that they both started separate, but I feel like both projects could get a lot of good from a merging. The BSD software could get a lot more eyes upon it, and Linux could gain more ingrained support for things like...
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    How do I switch from Linux to BSD and what are its main strengths over Linux?

    Hey all! I've been using Linux for quite a while now. Currently, I'm using Gentoo to learn about Unix-Like OSes and how C works (though the second part isn't going too well), and I think that I should also try BSD. I would like to ask how I would switch over, i.e. get Firefox, Steam, and such...
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    USB transfer speeds (was: Question about FreeBSD)

    Hello. I'm looking to install FreeBSD (Hopefully with KDE) onto my Thinkpad X1Carbon Gen 6. (Samsung 980 SSD/16 GB ram) I'm mostly familiar with linux in general and have tried different distros. I currently run Arch (With KDE and btrfs / not encrypted) and it definitely runs great on my laptop...
  9. Cath O'Deray

    Flare – unofficial app for Linux, to chat with users of Signal

    mro please, did you try what's suggested by Julian Schmidhuber? vermaden asked:
  10. NapoleonWils0n

    jails running linux wayland apps in a ubuntu jail

    ive been experimenting with running linux wayland apps in an ubuntu jail the jail is running ubuntu mantic with the nvidia drivers manually installed so they match the version on the freebsd host wayland enabled in the jails ~/.zshenv config export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 export...
  11. NapoleonWils0n

    Other Eureka running Wayland applications from inside a Jail

    I just figured out how to run Wayland applications from inside a Jail without using Xwayland The reason i started looking into this is because Davinci Resolve 19 beta 1 supports running as a native wayland application instead of running as an X11 app Also there is a nasty bug with wlroots that...
  12. NapoleonWils0n

    Nvidia driver on Freebsd and Ubuntu match, useful for jails and chroots

    Freebsd 14 p.6 quarterly Nvidia Driver 550.54.14 matches the exact version on Ubuntu 23.10 That means you can use the Nvidia driver from the Ubuntu repo in a jail or a chroot and it will match the version on the Freebsd host rather than having to download and manually install the Nvidia...
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    Running 4diac-IDE

    4diac IDE: is an integrated development environment written in Java, based on the Eclipse framework. It provides an extensible engineering environment for modeling distributed control applications compliant to the IEC 61499 standard. I have run the application flawlelssly Debian Buster and...
  14. rbranco

    Other HOWTO share labeled swap between FreeBSD & Linux

    EDIT: Now it's possible to do it in -CURRENT. Just run `echo geom_label_load='"YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf` as root, reboot and use whatever GEOM detects as swap in /dev/swaplinux. On -STABLE you have to apply the diff in https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1205 like this: cd /tmp...
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    Bastille and Ubuntu debootstrap, run with systemd

    Hi, I just trying to run Ubuntu jail via Bastille but need to do it with systemd to use with snap. root@ubuntu:/# systemctl System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Read step by step by this tutorial, except last package install. root@ubuntu:/# apt-get...
  16. bratak

    Solved Java Application: TraderWorkstation on FreeBSD

    Howdy, Step by step I migrate my Pop!OS Linux to FreeBSD. I'm stuck with a Java application, called TraderWorkstation from Interactive Brokers. Link: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/tws-latest-install-instructions-linux-32.php I installed openjdk8-jre-8.282.05.1 Then I followed...
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    Other Advice on how to structure the storage for dual-boot FreeBSD and Linux and common ZFS home

    With the release 14.0, I plan to switch to FreeBSD as my main OS. Unfortunately, some of the programs I use work only on Linux, so I will still have to boot to Linux from time to time. I am wondering how to structure my storage. In my notebook, I can place 4 disks in total, 3 SSDs (2 NVMe M.2 +...
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    Building on non-FreeBSD Hosts

    I am trying to build for purpose of learning new OS development following the handbook building-on-non-freebsd-hosts after the running the command MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/home/kp/freebsd tools/build/make.py --bootstrap-toolchain TARGET=amd64 TARGET_ARCH=amd64 buildworld i have installed headers for...
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    Solved Getting Unreal Tournament running

    I'm trying to get Unreal Tournament running on my FreeBSD 13.2-p4 system. I have an Nvidia GTX 1050 with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G. I also have the Linux Nvidia libs installed as well. I've got Linuxulator setup. I'm trying to run version 469d without success, so far. I'm stuck at getting ALAudio...
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    FreeBSD version of Ventoy

    There is a Linux installation for Ventoy available https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html which I'm trying to get working on FreeBSD. The installation consists of a shell script Ventoy2Disk.sh which I hope can be amended to work on FreeBSD #!/bin/sh OLDDIR=$(pwd) if ! [ -f...
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