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Operating Systems and Porting / FreeBSD 16 plans to drop support for PPC64.

« on: November 18, 2025, 10:07:29 am »

Hi

I have sad news for fans of diversity on the PPC64 platform. The FreeBSD team plans to discontinue support for PPC64 starting with version 16. Link to the original discussion: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2025-November/001078.html.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Electron support for ppc64le

« on: November 12, 2025, 07:25:23 am »

I wonder if https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux will work?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 43 Beta - please help the community test this release

« on: September 28, 2025, 04:21:04 pm »

In the early 1990s, I didn't know what to choose, Linux or FreeBSD. I chose Linux for the reasons you mention. Now the situation is not so clear-cut. Yes, more companies support Linux, but I don't use those companies' products. Everything I use is 100% available in FreeBSD. I've been using FreeBSD on MoreFine M600 for a year now, and I'm happy with this solution.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 43 Beta - please help the community test this release

« on: September 27, 2025, 04:25:07 am »

Better is always the enemy of good. I had been using Gnome since 2011, starting with version three. I was very satisfied at the time. Unfortunately, at some point, the creators of Gnome began to abandon quality and good ideas in favor of irrelevant oddities. They didn't fix significant bugs for years. Without plugins from other programmers, the environment became unusable. The final straw was the forced transition from X11 to Wayland. If Wayland were X12 and eliminated the bugs of the old environment with a minimal number of new ones, I wouldn't complain. But for users who rely heavily on X11 features, it's a disaster. After years of development, the Wayland environment is only a source of new problems and total fragmentation with minimal functionality. At the moment, I have already switched to XFCE. And as soon as DRM from FreeBSD works on Talos 2, I think I will abandon Linux.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: FreeBSD 14.3 available on bare metal Raptor Talos II

« on: September 14, 2025, 12:28:34 pm »

I am using FreeBSD 15.x big-endian in a virtual machine (qemu). ZFS works fine for me. Basically, most things work except for graphics. DRM does not work.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Phil Wyett & Debian harassment

« on: September 08, 2025, 03:13:49 am »

I don't want to be rude, but ideological disputes should not be discussed in the “Operating Systems and Porting” section. Generally speaking, this is a technology forum, not a forum for activists of various stripes, right?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: May 29, 2025, 02:18:51 pm »

Fedora 42 drives me to despair

Yesterday I noticed that I can't print anything. The driver for my Epson L850 printer disappeared. It does not compile... Fortunately, it's in an older version and in FreeBSD too.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: May 06, 2025, 07:49:00 am »

Yesterday I tested the installation of F42 on a clean disk with full encryption enabled. The installation went almost perfectly, I had a minor problem with setting up the keyboard. Gnome got up as expected on three monitors, two connected to WX 7100 and one to ASPEED.  Kernel 6.14.0 works fine, SDD is handled extremely fast.

Unfortunately, after upgrading to 6.14.4 and 6.14.5, I can't fire up the machine. The dialog asking for the disk password shows so briefly that I can't manage to enter the password.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: April 23, 2025, 05:24:20 am »

Well GDM has disabled X11 Session. Users are forced to go with Wayland moving forward. To me it makes no difference because X11 apps can function fine with XWayland

It is not so nice, quite a few applications do not work properly: xwininfo on the desktop or xset.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: April 16, 2025, 02:16:11 am »

Is it still possible to fire up an X11 session? Are the packages gone and it can't be done anymore?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« on: March 27, 2025, 10:04:12 am »

However it is not fair to say its UX is the most pleasant to use.

It depends on habits. For me, at one time it was very convenient. I am not a proponent of implementing by force a UI that is good for a phone on a desktop computer, which the Gnome team is persistently pushing on us.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« on: March 25, 2025, 02:11:08 pm »

A consistent UI is what had BeOS 30 years ago, now Haiku.  All written in C++ and completely unrelated to X11. Strangely, no one came up with the idea of porting that ready-made UI to Linux, they just messed around with Gnome and KDE. On Wayland the most suitable for me is Hyprland, unfortunately it is still far from full functionality.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« on: March 24, 2025, 03:52:00 pm »

At my place Wayland works strangely, and in fact a whole bunch of applications have problems with it, and I don't have the strength to inquire whether it's just the protocol or not. To me, it's just an incomplete product, which instead of bridging the divide between different DEs only exacerbates it by blaming the lack of support for a certain element on some DE or library. The result is that applications written for one DE will not work well on another. Applications with the latest Gtk are already a complete departure, they operate according to the principle of if you're with us it's ok if you're with us and if you're not it's off.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« on: March 19, 2025, 06:24:43 am »

I, unfortunately, said goodbye to the Fedora distribution... I still need X11 and that will not change for a long time. Gnome is getting more and more frustrating from version to version. I went back to simplicity, FreeBSD 14.2 + X11 + Enlightenment 0.27 ;-)

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] FreeBSD 14.2

« on: December 03, 2024, 11:06:46 am »

I am using 15.0 in qemu. Works fine.