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• Post #4322949

  Still no good news with the freshly out #NetBSD 11.0 RELEASE. S3 suspend woke up with dead WiFi (Intel 8265, iwm driver), in addition to keyboard and touchpad as before on my #ThinkPad T470s. So basically dead machine and no way to reset unless long press power button for a hard reboot. Desktop usability needs more love. #runBSD #BSD #Unix #AskFedi

• Post #4271075

  I accidentally came across this #MediaTek #MT7601U #WiFi driver for #NetBSD on GitHub: https://github.com/MakwanaVihas/gsoc_2k22 but it seems long abandoned. I wonder if someone knows how to use it. I actually have such a USB WiFi dodge, and since the #iwm driver works on and off for my Intel 8260 card on NetBSD I think I can give this a try maybe. #RunBSD #BSD #Unix

• Post #2753208

  It seems to me the the bit about #Plasma #KDE in the #FreeBSD #Handbook Chapter 8. Desktop Environments could use some better phrasing: To install the Plasma desktop with a basic set of KDE Applications, execute: pkg install kde Additional KDE Applications are tagged with the kde-applications category. To install a minimal Plasma desktop, execute: pkg install plasma6-plasma. This installation is really minimal. The Konsole terminal emulator must be installed separately executing: pkg install k...

• Post #2753207

  I had to replace #FreeBSD with #Linux on my old laptop at home serving as a streaming server for movies mainly. The only reason is low internet speed. The laptop came with an Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 Plus Bluetooth wireless card, both the iwn and iwlwifi successfully bring it up and connect. However, neither driver worked well enough to achieve as fast as 1M/s speen when downloading large files. After installing #Debian downloading speed easily goes up to as 2M/s when downlad...

• Post #2753206

  I only realize today that the widely used #conda environment tools can only be used under #FreeBSD via the #Linux compact layer. For people not familiar with it, it is kind of like the #venv or #virtualenv tools, allowing multiple versions of #Python coexist. I used #conda, mainly #miniforge or #mambaforge because besides Python, conda also supports #R enrironments. I daily use R #ggplot2 figures generated from animal models and cellular experiments, as well as various #Bioinformatics tools. It...

• Post #2753205

  I am impressed that#Void #Linux already has the new kernel for the "copy fail" #CVE fix today, since #Debain stable also rolled out it today too but I suppose Debian community is much more bigger and experienced

• Post #2753204

  I checked the workstation in our lab running #Debian #Linux stable, which mainly is for my own usage most of the time, had three versions of kernels updated for the past month. And yet it had not caught up with the latest CVE reports. This is really unusual🫣

• Post #2753203

  Well this is actually fun! I did not expected it to "just work" since the desktop only has 32GB RAM and no usable GPU at all for the model! Although it is barely usable because of the high CPU spike when the model is 'thinking', but for a PC with better specs I guess it will run smoothly.