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Well, now that we're talking sysadmins rather than desktop users, I'll say that the "learning path" is to stay with FreeBSD, but to get yourself a copy of Michael Lucas's Absolute FreeBSD if the FreeBSD Handbook isn't enough for you. Seriously. ;)

"War is a racket." --General Smedley Butler

I was drafted into the US Army in 1971 and sent to Vietnam. So count your blessings, it could be worse. :P That said, my sympathies for your impending loss of freedom. (No, I didn't see any combat. Whenever I'm asked, I usually say my time in Vietnam was like being at an especially bad...

Why does it have to be? We've already pointed to an alternative which should be more than adequate to meet their needs. PC-BSD is built on top of the FreeBSD kernel and world. It's the closest thing to a "distro" that there is in the BSD world, and it is aimed at those lay-people you want to...

Yep, that was my path to FreeBSD too.

I agree with what wblock says about string operations being a good indicator that it's time to move "up" from sh. (But I also agree with SirDice and have trouble thinking of sh as "low level". Like him, I'm accustomed to thinking of assembly as low level, with C above that but still well...

Perhaps #includedir without a space is an include directive, but when you add a space, it becomes a comment? I saw the same error and hacked around it by adding a second '#' in front of the "#includedir". In that case, I'm almost positive I converted it to a comment. My...

Your screen name is a Three Stooges reference, yes? Moe, Curly, and Shemp were all Howards. Larry was a Fine.

Also remember that if any running processes are using the library, deleting it won't have any immediately apparent effect on them. You might not know you have a problem until those processes are stopped and restarted -- which might be quite some time later and only after a reboot. So take...

Yeah, I find sc without vesa totally unworkable, since vesa is apparently required to get a higher-resolution font that doesn't waste so much screen real estate. (If I'm wrong about that, I'd love to hear it.)

The ports in the ports tree are version-controlled and you can use tools like ports-mgmt/portdowngrade to revert to a previous version of any particular port. But, as Warren said, there's no branching and no distinction between CURRENT, STABLE and RELEASE. It isn't labeled as such, but there's...

Yeah, I know how to convert them on the Mac. I was wondering if there is any way to work with them on FreeBSD.

I need to migrate some documents that were originally created on OS X as .rtfd's -- which is yet another of the Macintosh's "bundles": directories slyly masquerading as a file type. Are there any programs ported to FreeBSD that can work with these things, or is my best bet to fire up the Mac...

Has anyone confirmed that the problem does not occur when the vesa modes of sc are NOT used?

lbl, Interesting. So now we know it isn't a platform issue. No, I think we're done here. Thanks for your help! I'll have the other user use the mod to generate the traceback so we can see what's going wrong on his system.

I deinstalled graphics/py-imaging and then ran openshot. This produced the familiar error message saying that openshot isn't installed on the python path, and proves that a missing dependency can cause the observed results. To get better info about why the ImportError exception is being...

The first message, about a process no longer existing and creating a new pid lock file, is normal. That's just openshot's way of enforcing a single instance. The other messages occur when the try-except logic at the end of /usr/local/bin/openshot catches an ImportError exception. The stated...

Hi all, I'm troubleshooting an issue one user is having with my port of the openshot video editor (multimedia/openshot). I can't reproduce on my i386 machine what he's seeing on his amd64. I don't know if the architecture difference is important, but will appreciate it if someone with an...

...random Linux-specific dependencies, no doubt. Which will be obsoleted at the end of the year by the next new shiny thing. :P

As a followup to Beastie's comment: Trashcans are a fairly crude kind of backup, although they do put a pretty face on it. If you find yourself needing this functionality, you might want to consider looking into the various tools for doing periodic incremental backups. You probably should...