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Traditionally TrueOS has been a good desktop.

@black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD: @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD: Dragonfly is tough by default because unless you use something like Salt, you can't connect to it to get keys to it in the first place. You can curl keys to it, of course. But you need totally different processes than you would typically use with any other OS to get it set up. That means it's not even Ansible friendly. Pretty much agent-based tools like Puppet, Salt, etc... is the way to go. Yup, unless you have some way to push the Ansible key ahead of time, like in a curl. So back to the beginning there

@scottalanmiller said in Errors Installing SaltStack on NetBSD 7.1.1: Got it, it was a packaging versioning issue. I had accidentally set the verison to 8.0 when it was 7.1.1. I got a clean install and set the package version correctly and now it works fine. If you want to know how to set the version accurately automatically, try this that I just made... export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/`uname -m`/`uname -r`/All/" That's exactly what I was thinking but didn't say anything. I wanted to see what you'd do.

I would check if there are any DNS errors trying to get the Repos or sites then look at this: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/issues/996 More recently on this: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225104

@black3dynamite said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce: @scottalanmiller said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce: My Xfce download is underway. What's GhostBSD default desktop environment? MATE and Xfce. Those are the only two that they make.

The Linux world is complex enough for normal users. BSD just pushed them that much farther over the edge.

My Linux is better than your Linux.

@dafyre said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released: @scottalanmiller said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released: @matteo-nunziati said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released: for curiosity sake: who is actually using dragonfly bsd and why? I've deployed it a bit in labs. I'm always watching it closely because Hammer is very important. Hammer? One of the world's most advanced fileystems. Dragonfly is important as a kernel alternative ecosystem to FreeBSD, from which it split (in many ways Dragonfly is the real FreeBSD and FreeBSD is the "new" product that split from it) but its real relevance is as a filesystem research platform. The kernel maintainer there writes a totally unique filesystem, called Hammer, just for Dragonfly.

I have a copy of SCO Unix. Very niche. Full box and license. Found it when i was clearing out the IT attic at work. I havent seen a Solaris box since 2010.

@DustinB3403 said in FreeNAS Domain Failure on AD: @scottalanmiller any news yet? Nope

Fixed

@Dashrender said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @scottalanmiller said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @Dashrender said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @scottalanmiller said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @Pete-S said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @Obsolesce said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @scottalanmiller said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: @Obsolesce said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID: Hardware RAID controllers should not be used with ZFS This part is obviously just BS. They even have this details list of reasons that if you study it, none of them would result in this conclusion. So this is where the "someone writing the docs through in a little unwarranted opinion" without anything substantiating it. In older docs, this was wrapped with a qualifying statement that includes "if you want ZFS to handle some of these functions." It looks like someone who didn't understand the source document copied what everyone things is the implication, but isn't at all, and missed their own technical details. I'm not following the context here... I didn't say what you quoted me saying. In a scenario where one wants to use ZFS as a LVM and software RAID, that is why I said to use HBA on hardware, rather than a RAID card: You would NOT want to use a hardware RAID card and use either passthrough disks or set each disk as a RAID 0. You should use an HBA instead, for ZFS' LVM and software RAID use. What's the difference here? A RAID card is just like a pure HBA but with RAID logic. The problem is, many RAID cards won't turn off the RAID logic and encapsulation. Hence the need for RAID 0, which could shield the actual drive from ZFS, I'm guessing. No, needing RAID 0 is the thing I'm talking about. The RAID is still there, hence "can't turn it off." That is what I was saying - the RAID is still there.. it's a RAID 0.. where HBA wouldn't have RAID at all. The disk is just presented as a disk. Many RAID cards do that, too. It is really just one popular one that doesn't let you, AFAIK.

@JJoyner1985 said in UNIX: What Is a Tarball: So, do you think the reason I am seeing a lot more gzip in use with tarballs is due to the familiarity of gzip and the negligible difference in the compression between it and bzip2? Basically, bzip2 doesn't make enough of an improvement with sufficient regularity to entice people to move away from gzip, or is there some other benefit to gzip that my training material hasn't covered? That's correct. The difference between the two is generally small enough that people are not concerned. And lots of systems still don't have bzip2 installed by default so if you want scripts or whatever to work universally you often use gzip because you know that it is always there and predictable.

Now that I'm on fiber I seem to be able to post screen shots. More to come tomorrow. It is very late here.

Thanks!

zroot is #1 reason to love ZFS !!

I'll definitely share! ))

Updated our slave database servers to 10.3 a couple of weeks ago... we roll out phases since we've got so many damn servers. It's always a nightmare. If no issues for the next couple of weeks or additional patches, we'll roll out to primary database servers (they're all sets of master-master, the slaves are for search primarily, but also are useful for a live test if everything passes staging, and they're a hot backup too if any issues arise) and then web servers. We never go down so it's a painfully slow process.

@tonyshowoff said: @BBigford said: @tonyshowoff said: @BBigford said: @scottalanmiller said: Yeah, the GNU/Linux people seem to have died off long ago. It was one of those big trends once upon a time. Richard Stallman died off? .... (joke) I swear, in EVERY conversation I've heard him engage, he spins the conversation into the naming (GNU/Linux... NOT Linux). I think in the flick Revolution OS he talked about it no less than 60 times. That movie also hinted at what a total psycho Eric S Raymond also is with his bizarre explosive behaviour. He's also pretty... pretty extremely sexist and actually not even really that technical, he's more like Stallman. What I do like is him complaining about Stallman, sometimes it's pretty funny what he writes and calls him out on. I don't remember him being explosive in that movie. Got any examples to refresh my memory? Well when the interviewer brings up that some people compare open source to communism, something that actually almost never happens in real life, his face turns bright red, he flips out and gives a very 1950s ice America view of life under Marxism. As someone from such a country, it was really strange. It did seem like he was trying to restrain himself. Haha I forgot about some of those lines. Thanks for the refresh. Been a while since I've watched that flick.

@KOOLER already tested vanilla FreeBSD

@scottalanmiller said: For home laptop use (non-gaming) be sure to check out PC-BSD. It's screaming fast, super stable and very responsive. In this particular article it was a solid, but not fastest, performer in the transcoding benchmarks they ran, which were about as close to web serfing and video watching. PC-BSD is the fastest bar none if you're compiling software or iops intensive workloads.