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The goal of releasing "the best performing, highly stable SERVER based OS, with outstanding documentation" depends upon having competent developers and contributors. Dependencies: competent developers and contributors --> large pool of potential developers and contributors --> general interest...

I had an Acer laptop running FreeBSD since 2012. It works flawlessly. I experimented with TrueOS in a VM and with dual boot, and ran into similar issues with App-Cafe and Lumina. I actually had much better luck with GhostBSD. But nothing beats installing a raw FreeBSD system and then building a...

For my laptop with a 1280x800 screen, I've moved to a minimalistic xmonad layout. It simply has 2 black dzen bars with a trayer in between at the top. The one on the right just grabs conky info. I've avoided many bitmaps or pixmaps on the bars. I know from the colors what numbers mean. Up/Down...

Not a bad choice. It was my window manager for nearly a decade some years ago.

I keep FluxBox, x11-wm/fluxbox, installed as a backup. It's pretty small. My favorite is Xmonad, x11-wm/hs-xmonad. Although it has the high overhead needing lang/ghc to configure, it can be low in memory use, depending on the on the configuration.

I had good luck for very limited usage with cad/librecad from the ports tree.

I've managed to get my (non-wireless) Brother printer (FAX-1960C) to work with the Linux driver through the emulation layer. It involved editing the scripts, and such, that came in the lpr and cupswrapper deb files to point to FreeBSD devices and file locations. It works flawlessly under...

I usually just use portmaster -aD. The options dialog doesn't present itself if options were previously selected, unless there are new options for the port.

I agree it is a VERY good desktop OS. But don't say so too much. Some of its creators would prefer that it wasn't.

Try net/wpa_gui.

Brother has a Linux driver available for that printer. I managed to get a similar Brother printer running under FreeBSD using Linux emulation. The page I referenced for how to do this is down. But I searched and found a similar page http://www.reynoldsnet.org/freebsd_brother_cdw.html. The...

You might want to try net/wpa_gui

Most of the desktop environments, such as KDE, GNOME, XFCE etc. have graphical menus for selecting keyboard layouts. I don't think there's something for JWM specifically. But you could set up a command like exec setxkbmap pt & in your ~/.xinitrc (or perhaps ~/.xsession). Or you could configure...

kbdmap is for the console. setxkbmap is the utility you want for X11. setxkbmap pt or setxkbmap br may be what you want.

I don't run servers. I have a laptop that happens to be nearly perfect for running FreeBSD. I got curious and switched it from whatever Linux distro I was running a few years ago. So, I'm very seldom on the console, and nearly always running X11 with x11-wm/hs-xmonad.

I guess my /usr/src got corrupted somehow. Removing it completely and checking out the source from the beginning did the trick. Thanks for the tips.

Yes, I tried the # chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/usr # rm -rf /usr/obj/usr # cd /usr/src # make cleandir # make cleandir outlined in the handbook. And then followed up with make -j4 buildworld I've also run it without the -j4 option. I subsequently ran svn update /usr/src bringing the version...

I'm getting a failure of make buildworld at: ===> usr.bin/svn/lib/libsqlite3 (all) cc -O2 -pipe -march=core2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/src/usr.bin/svn/lib/libsqlite3 -I/usr/src/usr.bin/svn/lib/libsqlite3/../../../../contrib/apr/include/arch/unix...

No, I wasn't. I had disabled DOCS and NLS. I enabled each of them. Apparently, it required NLS to compile. I had emailed the maintainer. I will follow up with another email to him with this detail. Thank You for your help.

pkg_libchk reports no problems. I tried pkg delete -f gettext\* prior to another portmaster -D security/gnupg and it failed with the same error, but I also noticed that it didn't pull in the gettext ports.