Re: What made You think You could just kill graphics in singleuser

On 9/17/25 06:51, Peter 'PMc' Much wrote:
> It is about a deliberate decision to change system defaults in a
> way as certain commercial powers want it, no matter whether that
> implies beating up some ordinary users like me.

Release engineer here.  I'm not paid by any nefarious "commercial powers"
(although I wouldn't object to getting paid something for the hundreds of
hours I'm spending on managing this release), and I approved the change.

When our CPU is pretending to be a CPU from the 1980s there isn't enough
memory to support everything we'd like to do, and some tradeoffs were
needed.  Warner consulted within the project and I think we picked the
right tradeoffs.

The long-term solution here is to just stop using BIOS boot mode.  There
are very few places (mostly obscure virtualization environments) where we
can't boot EFI at this point.

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid