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I mght end up going with xfce myself, as I've had good results on many machines with it. I got the script in this thread to run and install things, but still don't have Xorg running yet. Don't have quite as much fiddle time as I did, but I hope to work it out fairly soon.

broozar, This is a nice script. Saved me quite a bit of time. desktop-installer crashed right away. I think I should note that the URL you have for the Eastern US is incorrect and that the script fails during installation if it is chosen. I haven't checked to see what the correct one is, but...

OpenOffice, by a long shot. Probably took about a week, with 3ish full days just doing the compiling (other time taken up waiting for my input, and this was with portmaster)

Roger that. I have done well installing world first, even updating to 9 but I usually have done fresh installations for new major versions historically so your reasoning makes sense.

I have leaned toward binary installations when possible of packages/ports - there are some issues but the compilation time for a large X application and its associated dependencies can take quite some time and headache - pkgng looks promising but is still in the works. For world and kernel, i...

Just doing a quick search of the forums, that ar9280 chipset seems to be working for many folks, but the ar5b95 does not. I think the Dell will work for you. My personal experience with Dell minicard wlan devices is that I have had good success with ath and iwn series drives on them, depending...

neko, It is probably worth noting that many MacBooks run FreeBSD well and are capable of dual-booting, if you want some of the software and support of a Mac but are still more comfortable in Unix. GIMP is capable of a lot, and gphoto2 is not bad if you like to script things like photo...

Not just buildworld but installworld. running make install from /usr/src/share/mk fixed this, but I almost always build and install world first as a matter of course. Was just trying to speed things up a little bit. I'm running 9.0 now and so far so good.

Seems it would be nice to do a rudimentary check for different version names, for example - # $FreeBSD$ to the newer # $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/mac.conf 122726 2003-11-15 02:08:01Z rwatson $ or similar - you know, basically an enhanced sed substitution of the old '# $FreeBSD'*'$' to the...

make install in /usr/src/share/mk fixed this for me - doing a kernel compile before make world was finished. make world failed too due to a libgdbm.so version error - linked to version 4 and that seems to have fixed things but I'm trying to get current code before I do my 9 upgrade so once I get...

I'm getting the same thing building a kernel in 8.3 after many successful installs from cvsupped src.

jb_fvwm2, this is correct, one major reason is that thumbdrives or on USB, which unlike old "regular" serial devices there isn't really a dedicated chip to processing the I/O - the CPU does the thinking for USB, as it does for most hardware since around the advent of PnP hardware in the late 90s...

Generally agree with m6tt here. Encryption is cool and useful for certain kinds of critical information, but it can bog down a system in a hurry. The answer to the title of this post is almost universally yes. ZFS is simply better, particularly for more drives, SAN setups, etc. It handles...

The real benefit in running Intel boards, in my experience, is that the BIOS and chipsets follow fairly rigorous rules that FreeBSD kernel/Xorg/etc developers usually only have to code for once. The chipsets for AMD chips have been varied and often have rather odd behaviors that may have to be...

As far as I can tell, the best way to handle this is to install /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools. Helps a lot. There are ways to use /usr/local/sbin/smartctl to do more than simply ask the drive once in awhile about bad sectors (which it tracks by default on any drive manufactured in the...

IOW, userland and configuration and whatnot are GNU based, hence a SysV-based system with a FreeBSD kernel. I can see where the FreeBSD kernel could be an advantage, but as I'm sure many of us FreeBSD longtime users have found, BSD-style configuration and command switches are different and for...

I turned 35 in July.

I tried Slackware first, sticking with it for a couple of years, then Debian (favorite for general purpose use), have found RHEL to be very well-supported at work (Fortune 100 companies don't usually approve running Oracle clusters on FreeBSD for production machines, for example), but the one I...

Gotcha. wish I could help.

This is a bit vague. Some info on the model of laptop and the results of dmesg might just get you some useful feedback on how to get it going. If not, we can at least have a note of it so as to warn future users about issues with this brand/model.