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I'm still quite unsure what exactly "in-between" there is that is missing. Can you give some examples? I still don't think that video tutorials -- while they are indeed very visual, and I am a very visual person myself -- are the way to go with FreeBSD learning resources. However, if you can...

I find it hard to imagine the content of such a video. Something like this? "Yeah, so you just type make install clean into the shell and press enter. You see it started doing its job. It's going to take a while, though, so let me explain some of the details of Ports management in the...

Ports framework does allow you to install both Python 2.6 and Python 2.7 at the same time. [starlight] ~ > pkg_info -E python\* python26-2.6.6 python27-2.7.1_1And no, I didn't force anything.

Well, KDE on my 2.8 GHz dual core 64-bit thing with 3 GB of RAM does run KDE faster than Virtual Box runs Windows 3.11 on the same machine. It's not as fast as OpenBox, mind you, but perfectly usable still.

Which, I think, is exactly why he wants pkg_add to use an alternative mirror which does contain the package. Although the mirror doesn't have subdirs in Latest/ either -- it does have gimp-gutenprint-5.2.4_2.tbz, though. ftp> ls pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-current/print/gimp-gutenprint*...

Are you doing this from an actual root's shell or via sudo? If from root's shell, do you use su - to switch to that account? (Especially the - at the end.) Do you invoke pkg_add yourself or is that invoked through the mentioned portmaster -NPP?

KDE 4.6 is currently scheduled for release on 26 January 2011. So if your friends are playing with it, they're playing with some development build. And yes, you can checkout the latest development version as well. Don't expect it to be a smooth ride, though.

Do you hear any beeps during POST? If your server is in fact a customised PC, then I think you won't be able to get far without a video card. It's a Personal Computer, after all -- back then when IBM designed it, no-one even thought anyone would want to ever run a PC without a video card...

Myself, I'm looking forward to seeing it happen. X11 is a mess, burdened with years of backward compatibility and originally designed for something completely different from today's PCs. OpenGL acceleration sounds like a nice thing, although it's probably going to be problematic for ATI users --...

Why would anyone want to rewrite it? It would take lots of time, lots of effort, it would stall any real development for a long time (devs would be busy rewriting, instead of adding new features and fixing bugs), it would introduce new bugs and it would bring us nothing. Why do you think...

What exactly happens after your first login attempt? Does the machine just hang there? Did you try switching VTs (Alt-Fn) after having entered the credentials but before the second prompt shows up? What about pressing Enter a few times to see if the screen scrolls up? If -- having logged in --...

My current one. KDE 4.5. I like it sorta.

Oh, okay. I haven't tried forcing it, as I have grown out of the "It doesn't work? --force it!" kind of system management. (Unless I'm sure what I'm doing -- which I wasn't here.) Deinstalling cppunit, installing OO.o, then installing cppunit again worked. So thanks once again!

Thanks for the packages. :D However, I get the following trying to install it:[starlight] ~/temp > sudo pkg_add openoffice.org-3.2.1.tbz Password: pkg_add: package 'openoffice.org-3.2.1' conflicts with cppunit-1.12.1 pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or -f...

Recompiling is going to take a while. Since this looks more like a configuration issue, I'd start with mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4-backup (while KDE is not running) and then launch KDE and see if it's gone away.

I fetched the new flash plugin port, built it and it's still a no-go. Flash works in Firefox3 and it used to work in previous version of Opera.

I don't really get your objection. What FreeBSD version do you have and which version do you want to have? FreeBSD 9-CURRENT is a development branch; there are no binary releases of that. If you want to update to that or if you already have it and want to keep it up-to-date, you'll have to...

FreeBSD cannot run Windows software natively. However, certain software is made to support multiple platforms -- for instance, GIMP does run on FreeBSD, so you will be able to use that without any problems. OTOH, I think you'll very quickly run into a program that you're familiar with from...

I don't think there's a fix for that. Flash is simply buggy on FreeBSD. It is not that long ago when there still was no native Flash for FBSD. I simply use FlashBlock for Firefox, so that FF doesn't try to launch Flash for every stupid Flash-based banner, and run pkill npviewer.bin every now...

He can boot into live CD, mount his on-disk installation, and then chroot into it: chroot /where/you/mounted/your/root /bin/sh. Then just run chsh, set the shell to something sensible, umount the disk and reboot.