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Try pkg update -f to update the repo catalog.

Have you got read UPDATING? 20120220: AFFECTS: users of graphics/libungif AUTHOR: dinoex@FreeBSD.org libungif is obsolete, please deinstall it and rebuild all ports using it with graphics/giflib.

There's already a useful thread about pkgng: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29397&highlight=pkgng

http://www.ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/garga/tinybsd/

Problem was fixed a few hours ago: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164244

multimedia/libdvdcss?

A first contact point could be the FreeBSD GNOME Project site: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ If you have experience with Linux as you mentioned, you should't have much problems to install FreeBSD (assuming that many new lecture to expanding skills isn't unpleasent thing to you).

Welcome to FreeBSD community dude! We have a wonderful handbook, which is recommended first to learn the basics. I don't know anything about PC-BSD because I just use FreeBSD. But I think all of your questions are answered at the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-users/index.html

Now it's time to go ahead - 9.0-RC2 still waits on servers :P

The "Huawei-E160E Stick" is supported by FreeBSD e.g.

You can mirror your hdd with recoverdisk and everything should be as previously.

I had this problem with GDM from gnome-package about one year ago and solved it with a new build of GDM from ports. So, I don't use this chaotic gnome stuff yet and cannot say if this is helpful. Just a try.

Maybe # make -DWITHOUT_GNOME is useful?

GCC versions after 4.2 are under GPLv3 and that's why they do not enter FreeBSD furthermore. And clang ist BSD license afaik. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=454456+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2010/freebsd-current/20100418.freebsd-current

If you want to handle your system with packages only there's is a helpful tool at sysutils/bsdadminscripts called pkg_upgrade

Have you tried to load sem(4)? # kldload sem

Here you can get OOo-packages: ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/

Have a look at bsdmag08/2010. There's an nice article about "Low Resource PCs with FreeBSD" of Michaels. This summary will give you some hints to use FreeBSD effectively with older systems.

Try pkg_cutleaves(1) # pkg_cutleaves -l