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 | |
couple of times since I didn't exactly know what the installer trie | |
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 so | |
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 multimedi | |
stuff. | |