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    FreeBSD on PowerMac G5?

    Anyone has an experience? I wanna try installing it as a second system. Instructions online appear to be pre-historic, while PowerPC (incl. ppc64) should be fully supported in the latest FreeBSD 13.
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    Rice My Desktop. Linux/BSD

    A little play on words there from that TV show (that I've never seen) "Pimp My Ride." Any serious *nix user should know about ricing which the term seems to have originated on r/unixporn. Ricing: https://github.com/IbrahimButt/Direwolf-Arch-Rice Anyway, I thought we could have a thread to do...
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    Resolved umask type behavior on user connected by network sharing

    My network scanner is configured to drop files into a well defined location on my MacBook and it correctly drops files there. Trouble is the default umask value seems to be 077 which means that when it drops scans then I need to do a sudo'd chmod to give myself (or the wife) permissions to the...
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    1st Gen Macbook, what to do with it?

    I've a 1st gen Macbook that doesn't see much use since it can't run a supported OS X version. In fact, I've two Macbooks. The 2nd one is a 2nd gen (has full 64-bit functionality while the 1st gen does not). The 2g isn't the one I'm concerned about though...not yet, at least. I'm curious on...