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Yeah well, speaking of imposing stuff, changing the default PAGER caused quite a ruckus a while back. That's hmm... a 4-letters change. Just an anecdote that crossed my mind. Of course FreeBSD can refrain from imposing anything by doing what it has always done, that is, keeping ports as close...

Simply misc/pastebinit.

Try textproc/antiword (antiword).

That's a GPT boot partition (freebsd-boot), which is totally different from what you said you did, that is, creating a separate partition for the /boot directory. As you can see in the screenshot, there's a single partition (ada0p2) that is allocated for the entire /. If at first you didn't...

Because you're outputting to the standard output which gets redirected through a pipe. And? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on which part got corrupted. It may boot and throw errors but otherwise cause no dire consequences. It may boot and instead of reading from the disk it'll write to it. It may...

Yes, like tommiie implies, you are assuming your download will *always* result in a *perfectly valid* ISO image. From what I understand xz does not have a proper CRC implementation (or any at all?), so to play it safe, the very least you should do is to also fetch the signature file and check...

What about the dvd1 media? I'm not sure it has the minimalist WM you want or things like net-mgmt/networkmgr, but I think it has GNOME and KDE (both may not be included in 12.0R though), which definitely include network managers. Plus, once you have all the basic dependency packages (which are...

There are many such references/tutorials/cheat lists for the real basics: http://www.oocities.org/jeffer_ucla/unix.html http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/index.html http://people.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~tickle/notes/unix-beg.html ... But more important is to experiment with your system. Learn...

This is practically what I've done in my post above. All the required steps are listed with corresponding commands and files to be modified. As mentioned, section 5.7.3. of the Handbook shows everything else you'll need to accomplish that, including how to modify these files and install...

Yes. Install Xorg then right away install Xfce. Edit ~/.xinitrc (check 5.7.3.) Add the appropriate lines to /etc/rc.conf, mainly DBUS (again check 5.7.3.) and the KMS driver (kld_list ...) and start them with service dbus start and kldload /boot/modules/i915kms.ko or just reboot. If everything...

So you're still using the old drivers. Have you tried installing the new ones (graphics/drm-kmod)? Vesa? Unrelated to FreeBSD. Xorg is third-party software and not dependent on any particular FreeBSD version. That's the case for the entire ports tree actually, not just Xorg. And the separation...

My memory may be failing me, but it should bootstrap the first time you use it to install a package. But just to be safe run that command like the Handbook says. Yes. If everything works as planned you won't need to configure Xorg. You can proceed right away with installing your favorite...

To a certain degree, the bigger the volume, the bigger its metadata. A filesystem needs some space to store all those structures that describe the partition itself and all the files stored on it, as well as all the backup copies of all these structures that are used to ensure its internal...

Hahaha. That cracked me up! For a binary installation, there is most probably no other way than to install it manually. Basically you boot into a live CD and when it comes to extracting the .txz files, you extract /usr/freebsd-dist/base-dbg.txz instead of /usr/freebsd-dist/base.txz.

You may have noticed that the command prompt on your shell changes depending on which user you're currently logged in as (e.g. % ..., $ ..., # ..., etc.) This small but significant detail is included in all the examples provided throughout the documentation (not just the Handbook).

The "Ubuntu-like DE" is GNOME 3 (x11/gnome3). But there are also "flavours" based on KDE Plasma, Xfce, MATE, etc.

FreeSBIE, yeah it was a good. Coincidentally it also had Xfce along with Fluxbox.

Perhaps there's not enough disk space to extract the entire base? What version are you trying to install? Version 12 is bigger than the previous versions.

Because people still use them? As for csh specifically, it is root's default shell.

I've never used Cinepaint but it's always sad when this happens. On the bright side, it seems there's some hope it could be revived upstream some day. So it's possible it may make it back into the ports tree down the road. Personally I won't hold my breath. Have you considered graphics/krita?