I am beginning to wonder if FreeBSD is not self-destructing. I used to be able to work with a number or previous releases, but as time wears on I am finding it more and more difficult to anything more than try to fix installations, ports, updates and weird unexplained or inexplicable messages while running or starting FreeBSD 9.0 release (generic) #0
When one follows the manual precisely, one would expect that things should work as stated. E.g.: Install firefox from manual -
Really? Unfortunately, this will not install Firefox 10.0. Am I to be taken for an idiot? Clearly this installs Firefox 9 and all the necessary programs to make it work are older than the ones installed. And as for installing from ports, forget it. Not firefox 9, 10 or even seamonkey. I don't seem to have any problems with Apache 2 or too many with samba36 or Xorg but when I am devoting 90% of my time trying to make things work or to reconfigure and fix installations, it's time to move on, maybe even to Windows. With all that I may dislike about Windows, at least I am not spending all my time non-productively tinkering and getting frustrated.
Perhaps my system is too advanced for FreeBSD 9.0 - I always had modest systems and things went fairly well, but now I have a really fine system that's OC'd to 47ghz with 16gb of memory that runs fine with Win7 and partially with FreeBSD. Am I doing something wrong in trying to follow all the instructions of the manual, the UPDATING directives of the ports and the advice of the forums? Or is it my system?
Maybe it's time to move on to Linux.
When one follows the manual precisely, one would expect that things should work as stated. E.g.: Install firefox from manual -
Install the package by typing:
# pkg_add -r firefox
This will install Firefox 10.0
Really? Unfortunately, this will not install Firefox 10.0. Am I to be taken for an idiot? Clearly this installs Firefox 9 and all the necessary programs to make it work are older than the ones installed. And as for installing from ports, forget it. Not firefox 9, 10 or even seamonkey. I don't seem to have any problems with Apache 2 or too many with samba36 or Xorg but when I am devoting 90% of my time trying to make things work or to reconfigure and fix installations, it's time to move on, maybe even to Windows. With all that I may dislike about Windows, at least I am not spending all my time non-productively tinkering and getting frustrated.
Perhaps my system is too advanced for FreeBSD 9.0 - I always had modest systems and things went fairly well, but now I have a really fine system that's OC'd to 47ghz with 16gb of memory that runs fine with Win7 and partially with FreeBSD. Am I doing something wrong in trying to follow all the instructions of the manual, the UPDATING directives of the ports and the advice of the forums? Or is it my system?
Maybe it's time to move on to Linux.