grahamjperrin

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by grahamjperrin 2y ago
> JFC. Cousin of the Kennedys? UK here, I'm out of the loop except for the one who's an anti-vaxx loon.
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by grahamjperrin 2y ago
2021 became boring some time ago, don't cha know, daddy-o? > commercial entities iXsystems, Inc.: sponsored commits in three FreeBSD source trees: https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/eb0bf1a03b64e14d9288cbd...
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
FreeBSD bug 276716 – mail-archive.freebsd.org permalink failures < https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276716 >
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
Expect 14.0-RELEASE to be 1400100.
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
> install one of the release candidates, and track the stable branch corresponding to the release. If a release candidate is installed, then it's generally recommended to track the releng branch (not stable).
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
The default link to the manual page does not yet work. Instead: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gunion&sektion=8&m...
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
Deprecations such as mergemaster do not occur with point releases. There's more, but that's the first thing that comes to mind.
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
> … I suspect they've lowered the bar on what is acceptable in shipping software. They certainly did. Yosemite shocked me. I'm a former Mac user (1992–2014; AppleSeed programme member 2009–2014). The GUI of OS X 10.10 Yosemite
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
I used gmane. Realistically, I can't use NNTP for things such as inline graphics e.g. screenshots.
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
> It's funny how nothing has changed in 20 years. Not as funny as things changing without you noticing ;-)
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
> … why should anyone else? … Check out the use cases and testimonials: https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/what-is-freebs... https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/testimonials/
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
Maybe not exactly the entire CDN. I mean: I think of the CDN having its control system in addition to controlled appliances, and so on. "Netflix delivers streaming content using a combination of intelligent clients, a central control s
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
I resigned.
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
In as few words as possible: I resigned. Pleasantly under the radar: https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/ via https://redd.it/17lr4vp
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
> personal dramas. Which is what this is. Not one person alone. >> … please note that I’ve discussed this at length with countless members of the community over the past couple of years, and several have shared strikingly similar e
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
Slack is alien to me. YMMV :-) Notifications in Discord are a PITA. And the rest, yeah.
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
In my own disgruntled situation, it took two months for me to craft something that touched, delicately, upon grievances. Finding the words was, sometimes, exhausting. I can't speak for Vince, but he's clearly unhappy, so I give hi
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
I can refute the mailing list argument, but here's not the place for yet another argument about the pros and cons. NNTP is not looking good for the Project. Please see, for example: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com&
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
Let's note that CV padding is not relevant to the open letter. Thanks
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
https://www.freebsd.org/community/ Alongside Discord, we have the /r/freebsd subreddit; a Matrix instance (not yet listed); The FreeBSD Foundation on Mastodon (not yet listed); and so on. The last update to t
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
Adoption was non-controversial. It took me by surprise, but there was no controversy.
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by grahamjperrin 3y ago
I'm a reluctant user of Discord for FreeBSD. I'm there only because it's a good community. A good web forum is vastly superior to mailing lists. Matrix, with suitable clients, is vastly superior to IRC. I'm above the age
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by grahamjperrin 4y ago
A somewhat careless, reactionary blog post. "… On Nov. 20, a pair of iOS developers known as Mysk discovered that Apple has a specific identifier (a “directory services identifier” or DSID) for every Apple iCloud account. …" – as
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by grahamjperrin 4y ago
> … htop … < https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/vwv1cl/-/ig0xnio/ >
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by grahamjperrin 4y ago
> … RES (RSS) … If RES is resident memory < https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1&manp... >, what's RSS?
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by grahamjperrin 5y ago
> … Probably best to not try to make BSD into modern Linux which is basically FreeWindows. … airyxOS, based on FreeBSD, aims to provide "… the finesse of macOS with the freedom of FreeBSD. …". < https://airyx.org&#
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by grahamjperrin 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30649753
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by grahamjperrin 5y ago
> … FreeBSD has supported Gnome for years for example. … Sadly, in relation to AMD GPUs: < https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=257810#c5 > >> … disable dri 3 in xorg.conf (use dri 2)
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by grahamjperrin 5y ago
> Wayland was working fine on FreeBSD last time I tried it. … From the quote at < https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/548305 >: >> … KDE Plasma Wayland, which was working in September, is now broken. It’s no
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by grahamjperrin 5y ago
> … release notes. The notes exist, but only in draft form; a skeleton. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262300 I drafted the corresponding pull request around the time of the PRERELEASE, which prec

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