So, I thought I would install and try out FreeBSD. After all, always heard how much more "efficient" it is than Linux.
Used Linux off and on for years. Traditional distros: Debian, Redhat, Slackware.
At least FreeBSD was simple to install, but that is about the only good thing so far.
Here I am sitting in front of the FreeBSD console screen (on another computer) with nothing that works.
No network. Well, it did work once after I config'd using sysinstall. Never worked again after rebooting later. I've tried over and over again to get it working again and my assumption is that I probably made it worse. Probably a bunch of registered eth0 devices now (God know where that config is stored) for each time that I've tried to get it working. I've even deleted all the entries from /etc/rc.conf (which was as assumption for using Linux). I have a standard home network and router, nothing special here.
No Window Manager in X. Just the standard X loads from startx, like we are living in 1982. WHY?? I Xorg -config'd. KDE and Gnome were both installed. Why am I looking at a screen that belongs in 1982?? Can't even CTL-ALT-BS out. Have to PS and kill -9 the X processes. With "startkde" in .xinitrc, it crashes. Who the hell knows why because the error messages fly by at 500MPH. So, I thought I could >> the error messages out to a file. Nope. Apparently can't do that with FreeBSD.
And why am I getting all these IPV6 error messages? I didn't tell it to install or use IPV6, only IPV4.
And, VERY ANNOYING, why can't I use TAB to auto-complete the names of commands and files??? Who in their right mind thought that FreeBSD's bash shouldn't have TAB auto-complete ???
Ugh. I'm very close to just saying "F this S" and wipe FreeBSD off the computer.
Used Linux off and on for years. Traditional distros: Debian, Redhat, Slackware.
At least FreeBSD was simple to install, but that is about the only good thing so far.
Here I am sitting in front of the FreeBSD console screen (on another computer) with nothing that works.
No network. Well, it did work once after I config'd using sysinstall. Never worked again after rebooting later. I've tried over and over again to get it working again and my assumption is that I probably made it worse. Probably a bunch of registered eth0 devices now (God know where that config is stored) for each time that I've tried to get it working. I've even deleted all the entries from /etc/rc.conf (which was as assumption for using Linux). I have a standard home network and router, nothing special here.
No Window Manager in X. Just the standard X loads from startx, like we are living in 1982. WHY?? I Xorg -config'd. KDE and Gnome were both installed. Why am I looking at a screen that belongs in 1982?? Can't even CTL-ALT-BS out. Have to PS and kill -9 the X processes. With "startkde" in .xinitrc, it crashes. Who the hell knows why because the error messages fly by at 500MPH. So, I thought I could >> the error messages out to a file. Nope. Apparently can't do that with FreeBSD.
And why am I getting all these IPV6 error messages? I didn't tell it to install or use IPV6, only IPV4.
And, VERY ANNOYING, why can't I use TAB to auto-complete the names of commands and files??? Who in their right mind thought that FreeBSD's bash shouldn't have TAB auto-complete ???
Ugh. I'm very close to just saying "F this S" and wipe FreeBSD off the computer.