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A shortlist of FreeBSD packages

Packages that I often install on test systems.

pkg install --quiet --yes drm-kmod firefox gdisk gitup htop hw-probe kde lsblk lynx nano pciutils roxterm sddm stressdisk uclcmd usbutils virtualbox-ose-additions-72 xfce xorg

I normally omit:

  • drm-kmod when installing in a VirtualBox guest
  • kde when I want Xfce alone
  • virtualbox-ose-additions-72 when installing on real hardware.
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grahamperrin commented Sep 17, 2025

I added sysutils/gdisk whilst drafting https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289651#c4. For quick and easy preparation of a device and a partition prior to creating a ZFS pool.

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