Questions tagged [pc-bsd]

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PC-BSD PBI, what reasons made it to be scrapped?

What are the detailed specific technical/organizational reasons that the PC-BSD team faced that ultimately lead them to scrap PBI and return to ports? Was because of the difficulties compiling and packing? Was because of problems with the hard links…
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Why can't Korn Shell do ctrl-r?

If I use PC-BSD with the default shell (Korn) then Ctrl+r doesn't work. Why won't it work? Ctrl-r was introduced to search your history in the late 1970s or early 80s and my BSD still can't do it (while Ubuntu can). Ctrl-r originates with Emacs…
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Cannot create bootable USB for PCBSD

I've tried creating bootable for PCBSD using dd as mentioned on PCBSD website documentation and also in the Preinstall Instruction. I also tried "sync"-ing as mentioned here but it doesn't seem to work. I tried booting my laptop in both legacy and…
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PC-BSD command line approaches to sleep (suspend to RAM) and hibernate (suspend to disk)

Background Lumina offers a Suspend option, which works. KDE Plasma 4 offers Sleep and Hibernate options, neither of which work. As suspend to RAM can work with Lumina, so I'd like to try the same with KDE. The question Are there command-line…
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Realtek 8723be wireless support, PC-BSD

I have an HP 455 Probook with AMD10-7300 processor and Realtek 8723be wireless card. I would like to install PC-BSD. Is there any hope of wireless working? I wish there was a live disk I could use to test before installing.
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PC BSD Warden network interface

The documentation for PC BSD's Warden mentions that the configuration of the right network interface is crucial. However, it doesn't say what the "right" interface is. What interface can I use there? The existing physical NIC one? Should I create a…
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BSD sound problems with Realtek 892

I'm having the same problem as: No sound with Mint 12 and Realtek ALC892. The user marked it as "Resolved" without actually resolving it, he just changed to another OS and gave up. Has anyone resolved this with BSD or Linux? I'm personally more…
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Dual boot PCBSD - Windows 7

I am using PC-BSD 10.1.2. I ran the command without adding the Windows partition configuration file as result: # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Generating grub configuration file ... Found theme:…
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FreeBSD ports collection under PC-BSD?

I'm toying with the idea of installing FreeBSD or PC-BSD... as it looks now, I'll probably go for PC-BSD. However, one thing I really would like, is the FreeBSD ports collection. So I was wondering if it can be installed on PC-BSD? If it can be…
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darktable 1.6 in PC-BSD

Is darktable 1.6 in PC-BSD repositories available or when will it be? Or is it possible to install it from freebsd?
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