They also have published an interesting blog post about that https://blog.ovhcloud.com/collaborating-on-open-source-projects-an-example-with-freebsd-and-openzfs/
#jerecrute #pasmoi
I've been studying fsync() for a couple of years and I thought I'd seen every weird way that it could be used and misused, but this week I learned of one more that exists in the wild: if the program crashes between write() and fsync(), on restart, fsync() after open() to ensure those writes are on disk.
I am pretty sure this doesn't do what people think it does, and here's why:
https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-03-13-fsync-after-open-is-an-elaborate-no-op/
Horror story in 6 words:
The power to serve ai workloads
I helped my mother to find a replacement for her *very* old (and partially broken) notebook, and now I have a nice refurbished #Thinkpad T15 (Gen1) sitting here on my couch. It's suddenly this great "shiny new toy feeling" again and I'd love to just keep that machine
Anyways, she told me it should "work exactly as before", so I'll install #FreeBSD 14.2 on it soon. It came with #Windows 10 preinstalled and I just extracted the product key. Question: Is this all I need to be able to reinstall Windows later if ever needed?
FreeBSD 13.5-R magnet links are now available.
Check the wiki page for the links:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Torrents
This is probably the quickest I've gotten the magnet links generated! Almost exactly an hour after I got the release email.
Finally I have #Telegram Desktop on #FreeBSD. This unlike #Bluetooth was only a matter of installing the package.
@thedarktangent
This can be an interesting topic to bring to the #FreeBSD mailing list.
Get ready for the European *BSD event of the year 2025!
The Call for Proposal is now open, and will remain open until 2024-06-21!
Bring your freshest, craziest, most mind-blowing ideas on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD & more!
You can submit yours at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/
The full CfP can be found at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/
See you in Zagreb!
EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia
September 25-28, 2025
I was listening to the BSD Now podcast and they were talking a lot about BSD conventions. It sounded like fun. I'd like to go to one. They said they are very welcoming to newcomers.
With my social phobia and agoraphobia, I think a BSD convention might be more manageable than, say, something like DEFCON or SCaLE. My estimate is that the latter would contain an order of magnitude more people than a BSD convention, and thus take place at larger, more daunting locations.
The folks on the BSD Now podcast mentioned that to maximize enjoyment of a BSD (or any) convention, one must observe the 6-2-1 rule, which consists of at least 6 hours of sleep, 2 meals, and 1 shower. This is reasonable. To help with my anxiety, I'd make it the 6-2-2-1 rule, which is at least 6 hours of sleep, 2 meals, 2 clonazepams (take one an hour before, and one during the convention), and 1 shower.
The closest upcoming BSD convention is BSDCan in June 2025, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The BSDCan website has information about accommodations and traveling to Canada. https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
I looked up flights out of O'Hare to Ottawa on June 10th, and there are 20 available on the Air Canada website. It is a 2 hour flight. ~$252 for economy class seat and a shittier flying experience. ~$500 for a non-refundable business class seat, which is a more tolerable flying experience. ~$600 for a refundable business class one. I'm leaning toward the latter.
I spent a day fiddling around and the farthest I got was booting with a custom kernel with all CPUs but then only a single SSD being detected, all other controllers and drives were not detected or in dmesg. So a resource thing.
#FreeBSD
#FreeBSD
It looks like a problem with AIPC. If I boot into safe mode everything works but I have a single CPU.
I can’t get #FreeBSD 15 current to install with the 144 core system, but Linux works fine.
Explaining Computers has published a video on FreeBSD!
Just got bit by this bug: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/warning-dont-upgrade-your-truenas-core-jails-to-freebsd-13-3-just-yet.117018/
The "daemon" executable shipped with the latest #TrueNAS still doesn't support the only jail environments available. Replacing "daemon" with the one from the root works.
A little worried now, since #FreeBSD tends to delete packages for older distros and seems to forbid any kind of mirroring beyond caching. Hopefully TrueNAS isn't dead?
I stole this, but: Berkeley Stingy Distribution
A new year a renewed #introduction
I am Dude, associated with the movie but there the comparison ends.
An updated #Introduction for 2025:
I’m a dad, #cat whisperer, #computer nerd, occasional #gamer, and #movie lover. I’m a #quality minded #professional and I make my own #homebrew beer. #freebsd. Enthousiast I love #fitness #walking #programming in #python and #3Dprinting. Busy with #homeassistant and more.
Ik spreek voornamelijk Nederlands, Engels een beetje Duits.