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See http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=3711#post26580. I was under that same impression and if you scroll down the conclusion seems to be that the use of pkg_delete was added at some point. I guess my knowledge was somewhat outdated.

I would encourage the use of ZFS if possible. Several people have already mentioned that you might still lose a little bit of data when a write has not yet been committed to the disk when a power outage happens, but at least you get rid of the fscks. ZFS mounts instantly after a crash and the...

Didn't the old system create packages from installed ports? And the ports themselves did not depend on pkg_*. You would think the additional overhead is minimal compared to the compilation process itself. Also, one package system is replaced by another so there is no reduction in choices but...

It doesn't work properly in the versions you mentioned even if you have a lot of memory. It will deadlock when it starts swapping, although not necessarily immediately. This may be fixed in the long run but for now a swap partition (or swap file on UFS) is the only reliable solution as far as I...

This is a conditional statement. Do you have reason to believe all your inactive pages are dirty?

Bug report has been created: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=186252

Re: Suitability Question Hardware would be my biggest concern, especially the wireless driver and suspend/resume. Other than that, FreeBSD is very easy to administer nowadays with the help of freebsd-update, pkgng, and poudriere. Just set up a pkg repository on the server you mentioned with the...

I tried a few things but it does not seem to be possible. First of all, instead of using swapfile="/swap" in /etc/rc.conf as is suggested by the handbook, I added md none swap sw,file=/swap 0 0 to /etc/fstab. This worked. Second, I tried to enable encryption by appending .eli to md (as you...

No, encrypting the data is negligible compared to the time it takes to write it to the disk. The gain is that no sensitive information can be leaked through the swap file.

The handbook is clear about how to create a swap file and also how to encrypt a swap partition, but is it possible to encrypt a swap file? A quick Google search did not result in anything useful.

I don't see how a license is going to give you a better protection from someone taking your code and then claiming it as their own than copyright. Also note that without licensing your code it is by default protected under copyright (and you are the owner). A license is a mechanism to...

Why use a license at all? Unlicense.

Not sure if this is what you want, but using VirtualBox to install it would be one way.

Not sure if it helps but you could try installing the Guest Additions.

Learn about ZFS if you haven't done so already.

After the update to 3.4.1 one of the patches was not added, but this should be fixed now (see port commit history). So update your ports tree and try again.

See technical details in the man page.

If you're looking to write your own shell, this may be a useful starting point: Implementing a Shell

Probably the simplest solution is to upgrade your FreeBSD 8 to version 8.3 because it has support for ZFS version 28. And in the future make sure you keep all your ZFS versions in sync, so only do an upgrade if you can upgrade all of them to the same new version.

The file should be located at /boot/loader.conf. If it's not there, create it.