so i have a decent background in linux and was a dbadmin for a sco sysV system for a few years but have played with bsd to the point of installing it, getting frustrated and putting linux back on; this process usually finishes its cycle in about 12 hours, once a year, for the past decade or so.
I am determined now though. I will get X working on my tester, but wtf, how am i suposed to kill a process when on a fresh freebsd install, X starts with no WM, ctrl-alt-backspace is disabled, and ctl-alt-Fx (1,2,etc) do absolutely nothing. I have looked around but I am just frustrated right now and am about to just write off FreeBSD again for another year until it maybe gets mature enough to be able to start Xorg without being a supreme PITA. Slackware was my first distro back in '96 BUT it actually has always worked. I am sure there are many little secrets to Freebsd that are different just for the sake of being different, but there is no place (and yes I have browsed the unix rosetta stone many times) that documents all/most/any of these.
I am determined now though. I will get X working on my tester, but wtf, how am i suposed to kill a process when on a fresh freebsd install, X starts with no WM, ctrl-alt-backspace is disabled, and ctl-alt-Fx (1,2,etc) do absolutely nothing. I have looked around but I am just frustrated right now and am about to just write off FreeBSD again for another year until it maybe gets mature enough to be able to start Xorg without being a supreme PITA. Slackware was my first distro back in '96 BUT it actually has always worked. I am sure there are many little secrets to Freebsd that are different just for the sake of being different, but there is no place (and yes I have browsed the unix rosetta stone many times) that documents all/most/any of these.