Posts by jardows 2 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Mar 2021
Not sure what your reviewers were doing wrong, but I have had no problems with my FreeBSD 14 RC1 (later updated to RC2) installation in VirtualBox. Maybe it's because I don't use the desktop-installer script and just run 'pkg install xorg' then run 'startx' to start a twm session. Works like a charm.
David - the pkg system is very good right now. Everything that is in ports is available with a simple "pkg install" command. The only issue I would say is finding the packages available, but freshports is a great help for that. There are a few programs you may want to install from ports instead of packages based on the options, but unless you need something other than the defaults, you can get by pretty much without ever downloading the ports tree.
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