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Berkeley Software Distribution is a Unix operating system

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I was reading the info file on my GNU/Linux system for the ls command, when I encountered the following under the -s/--size option: For files that are NFS-mounted from an HP-UX system to a BSD system,...
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This question pertains to Tuxedo laptops (and possibly Clevo, Uniwill, or Tongfang laptops, which Tuxedo systems appear to be based on). Tuxedo provides official support for Windows and Linux, but I'm ...
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I have a MacBook Retina 12" (2017) machine that unfortunately has developed an error with the power system that shows up in Apple Diagnostics and result in the machine being severely throttled ...
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This is on TrueNAS 13.0U6.3 (FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p9) I had a disk in my ZFS pool die. I replaced it, but I updated TrueNAS (Core) first - I think I was on U6.0 or U6.1 before the update. When I try ...
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I have an old laptop which I am trying to install OpenStep 4.2 with Patch 3 pack (Which supports over 8GB and has a VESA driver) on to a 2003 laptop which is a 32-bit pentium 4 with 512MB RAM and a ...
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BSD cp: -a Archive mode. Same as -RpP options. Preserves structure and attributes of files but not directory structure. -P No symbolic links are followed. This is the ...
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What might be a reason that BSD cp and find don't "like" a trailing slash for directory names? | | cp | mv | |-----|--------------------------|...
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I'm creating a CLI utility which is aimed at *nix OS:es. Let's call it 'Super CLI Project'. Looking at the latest POSIX Issue 7, 2018 edition - https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ - ...
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Some folders on macOS have custom icons that are stored in a file named Icon?, where the ? is actually a CR character, and only prints as "?" in most cases (in Terminal and Finder). But when ...
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It is well known that OpenBSD disables hyper-threading by default. However, htop shows 16 CPUs: 8 online and 8 offline, which takes extra space on the screen and is not very informative. Moreover, ...
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On old 43BSD... netstat -f unix Active UNIX domain sockets Address Type Recv-Q Send-Q Inode Conn Refs Nextref Addr 801ca38c dgram 0 0 8008b5c0 0 0 0 /dev/...
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Is there any way to install docker on FreeBSD? I tried following the official freeBSD handbook but from what i have found the version of docker on FreeBSD is broken (i read that on docker page). i ...
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I'm trying to play a very old Star Trek BSD game. It recognises characters that I type, but I occasionally make an error and want to use the arrow keys to correct it. This always fails. The pressing ...
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I wrote a bash script to simplify some boring task in my codebase. As most of my coworkers are using MacOS, I aimed at POSIX complience and tried to stay away from bashisms. When it was time to ...
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I'm trying to adapt a script that uses bsdtar, which is not available on my Linux distribution. bsdtar -x -f <file> --include="SOME/FOLDER/" What is the alternative of --include in ...
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