Installing FreeBSD Sunday Feb 17 5:10:38 2019 Several years ago I tried installing some variant of BSD (do not remember which one) without any success. I only remember you had to prepare something called slices (ie. partitions on your hard disk) and the whole thing was not easy to do, not for a newbie at least. Over the years and after using other unix-like operating systems I was well ready to try the installation again. Oh man, much to my surprise it was so, so easy that I still cannot believe it myself. The current version is 12 and even though I had to repeat the steps a couple of times since I didn't exactly know what the installer tried to accomplish in certain steps, the process was easy as 1,2,3. Unlike my first time years ago, this time I chose installing to the entire hard drive so I didn't have to worry about partitions (I do not even know whether the system still calls them slices or not). The downside of such an easy and quick installation is that you end up with a truly barebones system, no graphical environment, very little software installed. Well, I guess that a newbie can feel lost in such an scenario. Imagine that the first program I had to install was "pkg" the package manager. Oh my... After that, almost everything was downhill. I had to get used to some applications I had hardly ever used like the csh and urxvt (I knew about urxvt but never it used extensively). Then after installing x-org, i3, mc, elinks, screen I could use FreeBSD like a pro. Until I discovered that dillo was compiled without --enable-ssl. I tried hard to install it from the ports enabling ssl but to no avail. So I made the switch to surf (from the suckless project) and now I can really be happy with my new system. p.s. From the top of my head I also installed mplayer for multimedia stuff. ______________________________________________________________________ Gophered by Gophernicus/1.6 on NetBSD/amd64 9.1