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I've been using KDE 3, KDE 4 and Xfce4 on FreeBSD and I don't think I noticed any blatant Linux-isms -- as in, stuff that only works well when run on Linux. OTOH, Gnome is said to have some problems on FreeBSD, but I never tried Gnome. What's the point of this question anyway? Just install...

Microsoft Windows. Seriously, I ran to that from Linux. (Until I decided to give FreeBSD a go.) Although I think I'd start longing after a Unix (-like) system soon. I'd probably go with OpenSolaris first. Or Mac OS X, if I had the money. Other than that, I don't know. Minix might be an...

Quoted for emphasis. Yes, I think you're wrong.

I've been happily using an ext2fs partition for sharing data between FreeBSD, Linux and Windows for quite some time. Just my two cents.

I just put this at the top of my .tex files:\usepackage[czech]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}And it just works. (I save the .tex file as UTF-8.) Even hyphenation is done correctly, including words with our national characters and obeying our Czech hyphenation rules...

When I go to /usr/ports/misc/pecl-timezonedb/, I can see the 2009.8 version of the port: [starlight] /usr/ports/misc/pecl-timezonedb > head Makefile # Ports collection makefile for: pecl-timezonedb # Date created: 20 Oct 2006 # Whom: Marcus Alves...

Which site it was that was advertising FreeBSD as a newbie-friendly OS? If you want to learn to use FreeBSD, I'm sure you can. Next time you're in some kind of Unix-y OS (like Linux or PC-BSD), start the terminal and you'll get a shell -- just like you did with your FreeBSD install. Learn...

I'd also like to see a stable version of the ports tree. I understand that lack of people and resources is a problem. But I think such a split could help reduce some of the maintainers'/committers'/developers' workload. Imagine there are two versions of the Ports tree: CURRENT and STABLE. New...

Okay, a little update. Regarding the "realpath: : No such file or directory" message. According to the freebsd-java mailing list, I'm not the only one who has hit that. It appears to be a bug in java/javavmwrapper -- a fixed version should be in ports already. (I'm at school now, haven't...

That's why I said "memory", not "RAM". :D I only have like 5 GB total RAM + Swap. Yeah, I just e-mailed questions and java mailing lists. I'll report back if I get somewhere, so that Google has something more useful to index than the question.

*sigh* So how many bugs and where have I triggered? Should I bug the Java team? The Eclipse team? The FreeBSD team? My system is concretely this:FreeBSD starlight 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0 r207959: Wed May 12 14:25:58 CEST 2010 root@starlight:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STARLIGHT amd64...

Cool, thanks! I agree -- never seen anything like that in my life. My working theory is that for some reason -- a bug in the JRE -- Java asks the OS to allocate it 43 GB of memory -- since this is 64-bit system, that should fit within the available virtual memory for one process (or...

I've got a fresh FreeBSD 8-Stable AMD64 install. I need to run Eclipse, so I installed diablo-jdk and Eclipse from Ports. When I start Eclipse, I can see the splash screen, then a message appears on console saying that Java has experienced a segfault in native code. Things go haywire from...

Having read through your posts, I don't think there's anything wrong with your questions or your attitude. But it does happen that no-one knows -- or perhaps you need to wait a little longer -- some of the knowledgable people here are quite busy and it can take a few days for them to even read...

DutchDaemon, I have no problems with Pidgin & Xfce4 & Xorg 7.5 & 8.0-STABLE/i386. I suppose this must be something in your setup. Have you tried moving your ~/.purple and starting with default config? Might be Xfce/X.org config as well.

There already is www/weave.

That works. So does this mean that the device is simply coming up slower than FreeBSD would like it to? If so, is there a way to increase FreeBSD's patience?

Yes, a card is plugged in, but no, I don't have any other microSD card.

So, I got myself a new toy -- Nokia 6700 Slide cellphone. It is able to operate in USB Mass Storage mode (it claims to be anyway), and so I'd naturally like to be able to access it from my FreeBSD desktop. This is what I get when I plug it in:ugen2.2: <Nokia> at usbus2 umass0: <USB Mass...

It's been mentioned in this thread along with a hack to make it build.