My wrestling matches with FreeBSD, TrueOS, GhostBSD and Trident continue. Things were going well with Trident until I tried to install their release from a couple weeks ago. My 'dd' command seemed to work, but after the install failed with something about zfs and MOS, I wondered if my usb stick might be the problem -- it's a little old. I didn't want to try it on another one though. If Trident doesn't work the first time it is kind of a pain to do much with when it is over 3gb. After that I tried hardenedBSD for the first time. I couldn't get that to work. Then I tried FreeBSD 12. Couldn't get that to work either. (I'm trying all this on a 4 year old Haswell machine.) Then I tried FreeBSD 11.2 and was able to install that. I was on plain FreeBSD a year or so ago and am having some of the same problems I had then. I've tried searching for some posts about that because I think I posted some package(s) that I had to install to get X running, but I haven't been able to find those posts. I've installed an xorg metaport package and also lumina desktop and xfce desktop. When I try to start either of those I get that it can't load module ast. (If I remember right Trident is based on FreeBSD 12 so I may need newer hardware to be able to keep using Trident or FreeBSD 12. This thought just occurs to me as I'm writing this so maybe this posting has already paid off.) I've also been learning tmux as an alternative to X. My complaint about that is the font is too big. I haven't figured out how to change it. When I run 'env' from within tmux, TERM is set to `screen`. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - Ben Shapiro interviews D-Day vets this week on his Sunday show -- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=d-day+vets+sunday+special&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=XX4RUsJoR4c https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20190602/27e7abc0/attachment.html>