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Making slow but steady progress experimenting with #FreeBSD on an old laptop.

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Making slow but steady progress experimenting with #FreeBSD on an old laptop.

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    Are you working on something involving a BSD system that you would like to share with others?

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    pitrh@mastodon.socialundefined
    Are you working on something involving a BSD system that you would like to share with others?The Call for Papers period is open for AsiaBSDCon until November 30th, 2025 and for BSDCan until January 17, 2026.Check out the websites linked in the article, and get that submission in!What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out! https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #bsd #dragonflyBSD #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #conference
  • vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined

    Anyone else from #FreeBSD circle on #Firefox suffers this #Youtube bullshit?

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    vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined
    Anyone else from #FreeBSD circle on #Firefox suffers this #Youtube bullshit?This video is unavailableError code: 15
  • bsd_nl@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined

    Dear fellow *BSD aficionado,

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    bsd_nl@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined
    Dear fellow *BSD aficionado,First and foremost: our sincere gratitude for your interest and intention to attend our conference. We love having such an amazing community and were looking forward to meeting you once again at the Late 25 edition of BSD-NL.Unfortunately, we have to postpone this edition. We did not get enough ticket orders in to make it viable. Reflecting back, this was mainly our fault. We announced this edition way too late. Plus, there are other events at the same day, which is less than ideal. We will take these lessons to heart (and practice).We will, most definitely, organise a new event somewhere in spring - the Early 26 edition. And we would like to see you there!Sincere apologies. We will do better.#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD
  • lymenzies@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined

    Day two of using #freebsd again.'nThe resolution of the wifi issue was as simple as pressing the enable radio button on the keyboard.

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    lymenzies@mastodon.bsd.cafeundefined
    Day two of using #freebsd again.The resolution of the wifi issue was as simple as pressing the enable radio button on the keyboard. Good thing I read the messages on startup this time.After quite a bit of struggle I've gotten wayfire going (with an old nvidia card no less). The other challenge I faced is while Sway or Wayfire would launch, I couldn't run anything. No foot, alacritty, no dmenu, wayfire's bar would crash, the swaybar had boxes for icons. This took me much longer than I would like to admit to solve.Somehow it's possible on Freebsd to install all of this and not install a font. in one sense I appreciate the modularity. Sometimes on Linux I've felt like one little tool brings with it an entire desktop environment and a GB of software. This might be on the extreme other end. Added doas, rofi, firefox and started tweaking the interface. I haven't figured out the startup splash screen yet, or how to launch sddm or something like it on startup. But that's coming.Back years ago I never had a computer that could run Compiz. So I get to relive some of those aspirations with Wayfire. The effects are neat without being terribly annoying. The laptop I'm using was made in 2008 or 2009. And quite remarkably it does not feel slow at all. The genie effect is faster than any Mac when the Dock had that option. The cube rotates smoothly.And most surprising, launching Firefox seems almost instant. I had a dozen tabs open and not a glitch, even watching a YouTube video and swapping screens with the cube effect.I think I've managed to get this working without introducing many Linux-isms or the Linux ABI. I use Linux a lot, but I wanted something a bit more purely BSD for this machine.