After several weeks waiting under my desk, my new workplace computer got its OS installation. This is the most modern hardware I ever used so far, and I tried to go all the way using new technologies:
alx driver).Big trouble item, costing me some ten hours: after the base
installation, neither the xorg nor even just
xorg-minimal meta packages could be installed. Turned
out that there are currently issues with having the
latest repository complete. Switching to the
release repository fixed that.
(Solution found in a freebsd forum. How I hate these web-based fora! The mention of the problem on the freebsd.org web site, the errata section, or the usenet group.)
After installing xorg, I settled for installing Chrome as web
browser, but (so far) without the usually associated gnome desktop.
For now, I'm just running good old twm(1), with a few
settings which makes it quite strange to others.