“FreeBSD 14 on ARM64 and AMD64 now supports up to 1024 CPU cores, up from the current limit of 256 cores. With AMD EPYC Bergamo now allowing 128-cores / 256-threads per socket, that current FreeBSD limit is exceeded so now at least FreeBSD 14.0 will allow for playing with these high core count servers.”

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.0-RC

The portsnap(8) utility has been removed in the upcoming 14 stable and users are encouraged to fetch the ports tree by using:

1. pkg install git
2. git clone https://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git /usr/ports

The following commit df53ae0fdd98 back in April inserted portsnap into the ObsoleteFiles.inc.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/ObsoleteFiles.inc

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/283

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/282

“A summary of changes since 14.0-BETA5 includes:

1) A race condition in swap_pager_swapoff_object() had been fixed.

2) Various updates to the Linux KPI, 802.11, iwlwifi, and rtw88.

3) And other miscellaneous fixes.”

Direct download link of the amd64 boot only ISO: https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso

Pretty excited to be a small part of this project and would be happy to contribute more and become officially a doc/port committer

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/commit/49ef67a9b7cf507e441809fb176dc76def40f166

A decentralized Mastodon instance used for opinion sharing concerning BSDs, Linux and open-source software.

“At its inception, this Mastodon instance was devoid of preloaded content. Our intention is for it to grow organically, based on the interests and followers of its users. At this stage, we have refrained from preemptive blocks. We strongly encourage users to promptly report anything that they believe requires attention.”

https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/bsd-cafe/

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/about

https://wiki.bsd.cafe/

There is currently an unmaintained port under the /usr/ports/german/dict. It contains a very old dict.cc database from 2000 with approximately 115,000 entries. The German-Englisch dict.cc version has actually over 1.260.000 translations available.

Unfortunately downloading and uploading the database as a txt file in GitHub is a violation of Terms and Conditions of the dictionary, so I decided to port this project: https://github.com/randomn4me/dictcc. It is basically a python script that searches online for the given keyword. The previous implementation was an sh script using the agrep utility to search the txt translation database.

Let’s see how it goes !

Yes, Adobe Flash is obsolete since the end of 2020. No point being in the documentation 🙂

Firefox ended support for Adobe Flash in Firefox at the end of 2020, as announced back in 2017. Adobe and other browsers also ended support for Flash at the end of 2020.

Firefox version 84 was the final version to support Flash. Firefox version 85 (released on January 26, 2021) shipped without Flash support, improving our performance and security. There is no setting to re-enable Flash support.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-adobe-flash

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/279/commits/6a76c8f49f7b3cad01d52dafa5c4b605295b5ed0

Committing a simple change in the browser section but the whole document has to be replaced with the newer pkg install command

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/279/commits/f3d580ed65573419b180891371076be6e239288d