Hi all,
After many years of just using Windows, I decided to give Linux or FreeBSD another try. As I was very happy with the stability of FreeBSD, I choose it over Linux again.
As my notebook is quite new, the first problem was that there are no drivers for my WLAN adapter in FreeBSD 9.2 yet, so I have to use the Beta 3 of FreeBSD 10, so that at least the third external USB WLAN adapter I bought, is working now.
But I am so frustrated now that after three days, I still don't have a working system. First, the make of two or three basic ports failed unexpectedly. After typing
The make of Eclipse fails and I have no idea how to fix that.
I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is FreeBSD 10 Beta 3 really that unstable and not recommended for newbies?
After many years of just using Windows, I decided to give Linux or FreeBSD another try. As I was very happy with the stability of FreeBSD, I choose it over Linux again.
As my notebook is quite new, the first problem was that there are no drivers for my WLAN adapter in FreeBSD 9.2 yet, so I have to use the Beta 3 of FreeBSD 10, so that at least the third external USB WLAN adapter I bought, is working now.
But I am so frustrated now that after three days, I still don't have a working system. First, the make of two or three basic ports failed unexpectedly. After typing
make install
again, it worked. With X finally working, Chromium crashed every ten minutes with "segmentation faults". After getting frustrated with the Openbox themes (that somehow don't apply to Thunar and some other applications), I wanted to install pekwm, which only shows Chinese characters in the menu for no reason. The make of Eclipse fails and I have no idea how to fix that.
I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is FreeBSD 10 Beta 3 really that unstable and not recommended for newbies?