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Yes, now I see there's really no point to do this in my home directory. Anyway, after using my Mac for the past couple of hours, here's what I have in mind: Development/ for all personal scripts and software builds Compilation/ builds Executables/ scripts Library/ archive of valuable...

Good point. I was thinking the same, for store/ seems to just take extra typing for no real gain in organization. One time I saw someone who had something like this: clinic/ for *.doc pantry/ for *.jar lumber/ for *.log etc. I thought that was creative :) Here, I moved some directories to...

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I just came up with another idea to simplify the top of my ~/. One directory, store, is for files that don't change much and might as well be read only for the most part. Think of it like an archive. The other, var, is for files that change in size or presence much more often, like projects I'm...

These are all really cool ideas! It's interesting to see how people around here organize as verbosely as xzhayon to throwing all the files together like fonclynne. Right now I'm thinking of something like: art/ Multimedia is art, right? images/ movies/ sounds/ bin/...

I am reorganizing my home directory and would like to see what other FreeBSD-ers like to do. I'm curious about setting it up much like the '/' directory, but I'm not sure if that system will even work since they are laid out for totally different purposes. One thing I really hate on Windows...

Oh yea, I forgot to ask: Which firefox port is the correct one for the latest stable version? There are so many version-specific ports that I'm not sure which one I should use. firefox-devel seems to be 3.6, but isn't this the unstable development branch?

Beautiful! Once I get some spare time (probably next weekend), I'm definitely installing FreeBSD again. Yay! :)

Thanks for such a complete post, aragon. It's great to hear so much multimedia works on FreeBSD. I also plan to install AMD64, so it's sad to hear WMV10 doesn't work. The only site I really use it on has links to video streams that actually download a .asx file, which VLC media player then opens...

FreeBSD's magical allure is coming to haunt me again. I really want to enjoy all the juicy goodness of ZFS, jails, and more UNIX-ness that I'm missing in Linux right now. The main things that are holding me back are hardware support and multimedia, and the former isn't too bad on my computer...

It's quotes like those that scare me from going back to Linux, even if some things just don't really work with FreeBSD. I have noticed that Linux is trusted by many. Google uses it almost exclusively I think and even recently switched to ext4 (which I've heard some bad things about), the...

I found out that there is an acpi_sony kernel module for FreeBSD, so I tried loading it and tested my Fn keys out, but they still didn't work in xbindkeys -k. The acpi_sony module is far from feature rich and is not being developed very actively from what I've read after some googling (whereas...

I've used Linux for a couple of years (if you count the time with ubuntu when I just thought compiz was cool and didn't really learn that much) and I'm using FreeBSD right now. I guess I'll just have to think about this for a while. Maybe I should make a list of my needs/wants and write down how...

So would I use this usbhidctl to find out how FreeBSD recognizes these key combinations (if it does)? I read on the ubuntu forums that another person was having this exact problem, and I know FreeBSD is not Linux and all, but it was decided that the guy there needed acpi to recognize his keys...

The first two are actually what led me to start using FreeBSD, but I never found the others (and they seem very interesting). Thanks! Looks like the last link totally shoots down the BSD=Cathedral idea!

The Cathedral and the Bazaar makes the Bazaar setup (Linux) look really good compared to the Cathedral (BSD/UNIX) because of how fast the development can move. Then again, it does bring up how controlled the quality of Cathedral-style developed software is. This is why I love Slackware. It's in...

Around the BSD community I see a lot of bashing on Linux for being such an unclean kernel with a chaotic system, and that FreeBSD has a much more organized process for software creation, distribution, and documentation. This is not to say I'm disagreeing with this and I want to start a flame war...

I am trying to use xbindkeys to assign brightness, volume, sleep, etc. controls to my Fn + F* keys, but only the mute, volume down, and volume up key combinations are recognized by xbindkeys. When I run xbindkeys -mk and press Fn + F5 (the brightness down key), it is not recognized at all. For...

Guess what I discovered! I have a line in my .vimrc that says "set t_Co=256". This was causing the problem! I think it was trying to set the terminal colors to 256 colors, which didn't exist in the FreeBSD console. But now I have your awesome color scheme (which I like even more than herald!)...

But is there a problem to just leaving the current files on my UFS partitions? I know blanking them would save some disk space, but I allocated a good amount to each partition, so none of them are really approaching getting full. Also, isn't single user mode a security risk? If someone else I...