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    @selea I'm using this to watch several tasks that take a few minutes and run in parallel, or for watching multiple logs (without using up the whole display) or....Add #asciiquarium to one window ;-)
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    so Raptor gave me access to a Talos II to do some work on FreeBSD/ppc64le. first thing i noticed: the boot process is *very* unusual. it doesn't use the FreeBSD loader at all; instead it has a Linux-based firmware loader called Petitboot which can load and kexec() the FreeBSD kernel directly. however it needs a rather odd partition layout to do that:# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#/dev/nda0p2 / ufs rw 1 1/dev/nda0p1 /boot msdosfs rw 2 2i assume this is because Petitboot can't read FreeBSD UFS, so we need the kernel (which is in /boot/kernel) to be on FAT. Raptor suggested we should make the loader kexec()able instead, which seems like a good idea, but from what i can tell this platform doesn't use OpenFirmware at all, and i'm not even sure we have a PowerNV-native loader.(as you can tell, i know very little about either POWER or FreeBSD/powerpc, so this is going to be an interesting learning experience.)#FreeBSD
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    It's time to de-duplicate the desktops • The Registerhttps://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ by Liam Proven, @lproven "… There are an almost ridiculous number of Windows-style desktops on Linux – and mostly this applies to the BSDs, too. …"#UNIX #Linux #FreeBSD #BSD
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    Update for #nvidia #GPU #driver #ports on #FreeBSD to 580.95.05 landed as commit 7b1c88f42c7f4129bc96f405549f9e6b07bd6e3d. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=7b1c88f42c7f4129bc96f405549f9e6b07bd6e3dWe were pending it as kmod pkg repo still didn't have nvidia things and bapt was looking into it, but as of this information https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5703the commit was done without waiting for the reply from bapt.#FreeBSD is not entitled there, but as #FreeBSD native #drivers are known to shares most source codes with corresponding Linux versions, FreeBSD can be affected, too. So users of non-legacy versions of driver ports are strongly encouraged to upgrade.With this reason, the commit is already merged into 2025Q4, as security fix is one of the branket approval by portmgr and secteam. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?h=2025Q4&id=067be176997589baacd63c5e5db1981d3949cdb1Note that oldest branch listed is 535.