Well, after much persistence, it’s a success … I enter this message from the newly installed gnome desktop system using the Firefox browser from the FreeBSD machine … There were little things here and there that needed to be tweaked throughout the upgrade script, but it was pretty friendly … It even upgraded the X server, but this is where I am going crazy … When I had KDE running, I was able to use its screen resolution utility to change the resolution and the refresh rate … I have a cheap monitor, so any refresh rate above 60Hz causes shake and flicker … It is defaulting to 1600×1200 so everything is very small … When I change it to 1280×1024 it uses the same resolution but puts the screen up and to the left … So it makes the desktop smaller, but simply leaves black space around it … I cannot even simply select 60Hz to stop the flicker … I only have 75Hz available to me … This is very frustrating, and I don’t feel like putting much more time into this today … I have to get some sleep before work tonight … At least I believe everything to be in sync now, and that’s a good thing … One thing that is notable, in every browser, there is no Flash plugin available … So going to the Octane site, not only can I not see the intro (which isn’t a big deal), I can’t navigate the site since its navigation is purely Flash with no text alternatives … So here is a decision … I think I might be able to install Linux compatibility and use the Flash plugin for Linux, or I could just switch to using a Linux distribution for a desktop … I think Fedora Core is pretty snazzy … The thing I wanted to avoid was having to know more than one method for acquiring source files and installing them … Fedora uses the Red Hat Package Manager (RPMs) … I much prefer FreeBSD’s ports collection and ease of installation … Same goes for the package manager … Either that, or simply not navigate sites that use proprietary Flash … I think I would prefer the latter …