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What is "the best" is highly subjective. For me, editors/vim, print/latex for writing, with KPDF and KDVI for viewing (both from graphics/kdegraphics3) do the job. What setup do you use on Arch? You can most likely use exactly the same setup on FreeBSD as well.

Strange. I've been using Opera 10 since it came out (and betas before that) and don't get the troubles you're experiencing. When I open a dialogue (e.g. Tools -> Preferences...), I can see it draw on the screen, but browsing itself is definitely faster than with Opera 9 for me...

Mistaken you are not:

You can use mbchk to check if a binary is multiboot-compliant (installed with GRUB):/boot > mbchk loader loader: No Multiboot header. /boot > mbchk kernel kernel: No Multiboot header.So I think this is enough to conclude that neither FreeBSD kernel, nor loader are multiboot compliant. Oh, and...

You want to allocate len + 1 bytes, not just len -- strlen returns the size of the string sans the null terminator (i.e. strlen("") == 0), but you need to have space for the null terminator there, hence the + 1. And if you have a function like that, then your caller will have to know the...

Can you provide more details? What happens when you try to boot your CUSTOM kernel? Does it print anything?

Well, here's mine -- nothing spectacular, not even compositor is on. Clickety-click to make it big.

I have the same experience as aragon here -- Windows definitely feels smoother when loading applications for me. Both XP and Vista. The most noticeable difference is starting Eclipse -- on Windows it loads up within about a second or so, on FreeBSD (and Linux too) it takes about ten seconds...

I have used both Eclipse and NetBeans under FreeBSD without major problems. NetBeans won't give you the graphical profiler saying you need to be on Linux or Solaris for that, and if you hit the Debug button it'll tell you that your version of GDB isn't supported, but other than that it works...

You can use make package for that. It will install the port first, yes, but you can uninstall that later. Oh, and under Arch Linux, if you're trying to build a package that has an unsatisfied dependency, you need to install that dependency on the machine that you're building on as well.

FreeBSD.org used to load with a delay or on the second try for me (Opera would first say that it can't connect to the remote server, after a refresh it would load the page). I think it was because the system attempted to first resolve FreeBSD.org to an IPv6 address -- it tried to do this for...

What is the utility that performs the audio test in the bottom of your output? Do you have 'snd_ich_load="YES"' in your /boot/loader.conf? What does cat /dev/sndstat say? And kldstat? Also, did you check the usual? Cables connected, speakers on, etc. It did happen to me that I spent half...

You can't get the password easily. The passwords are stored in an encrypted form in the root-readable-only file /etc/master.passwd, encrypted with crypt.

So... Where is the joke in that?

Oh, right, we've got a bugless, fully-supported Flash plugin already, eh? I peeked at the source and it looks like it's just a matter of getting someone who knows OSS (I don't, so I won't dare) and write an appropriate code for it. Writing a "null audio output" back-end shouldn't be that...

I've also got a 1680x1050 monitor on an nVidia (7300 GT) card and it's working without problems for me. I'll give you my xorg.conf and maybe it'll help you some. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"...

I may be the only one not getting this, but I'll still ask: What the hell does a browser need a sound library for?

Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example is my favourite book for beginners. If you want to dwelve further after reading that, I'm going to recommend you The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup and The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference.

As an editor, I use also use vim.

Twenty-one and already feel old. :(