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Subject: Ultimately BAD Experience With FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 00:26:15 -0400
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As I mentioned a week ago, I was installing FreeBSD on
one of my MiniPCs. After a couple of false starts it
all came into focus, everything working good, got SSH
and Tiger-VNC and XFCE that worked first time. Was
installing the other packages I wanted. ALMOST got there ...

THEN ... an error or two in an install ... and the
system FROZE. On reboot, hell, it asked where /bin/sh
was. TOTALLY hosed.

I'm not 13 with a closet full of Jolt Cola and
chips ... NOT going to spend days/weeks/months
trying to undo that level of mess. So, it's GONE,
won't try it until well into the next full distro.

Made an OpenBSD stick ... try THAT tomorrow .....