Doubts

[Thiago Silva Conceição]

Hi,

I've installed FreeBSD here, I have come from Linux so I am still
adaptating. I have some doubts:

- How often the ports collection get updated? Is it whenever a new
release is out or constantly?

- How do I do to update all the applications I have installed? I did the
"make world" thing here but It seems it doesn't update things like
gnome, XFree, kde and so on, or maybe I'm wrong. Something like 'apt-get
upgrade' from Debian Linux.

- Is it possible to configure the console while in text mode to display
characters from other languages? I tried to configure the console font
and language through sysinstall but It didn't worked. My home language
is brazilian portuguese.

- There is an annoying thing on emacs. The backspace button doesn't work
as it usually do on other systems (erasing the last typed character).
How do I change this?

Best regards,
Thiago

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[Scott Corey]

Thiago Silva Conceição wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed FreeBSD here, I have come from Linux so I am still
> adaptating. I have some doubts:
>
> - How often the ports collection get updated? Is it whenever a new
> release is out or constantly?

Constantly

>
> - How do I do to update all the applications I have installed? I did the
> "make world" thing here but It seems it doesn't update things like
> gnome, XFree, kde and so on, or maybe I'm wrong. Something like 'apt-get
> upgrade' from Debian Linux.

If you have installed the ports , then try
/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, also look into
/usr/ports/net/cvsup and read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

>
> - Is it possible to configure the console while in text mode to display
> characters from other languages? I tried to configure the console font
> and language through sysinstall but It didn't worked. My home language
> is brazilian portuguese.

Yes, look at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html

>
> - There is an annoying thing on emacs. The backspace button doesn't work
> as it usually do on other systems (erasing the last typed character).
> How do I change this?

I don't do emacs, so I can't help you there.