First Steps

So you Installed FreeBSD

What now... Okay turn off the screen and go play PS4...

Just Kidding

Here are the first steps I would suggest

Run the Updater

The Fetch takes a bit, I warn you

1. Login as yourself, not root, get used to almost never logging directly in as root
2. type su 
3. enter the root password
4. the prompt will now change to root@yourhostname. This is normal and what you want to happen
5. type freebsd-update fetch
6. This can take a bit, go get a cola or something.
7. type freebsd-update install 
8. Let that run
9. type reboot

Install you first Packages

1. Log in as yourself again
2. do the su thing again
3. Now here will be a few packages I will use in this blog and you will want to get familiar with. The first time you run the package command it updates and installs the current version so just accept the prompts
   1. pkg install nano
   2. pkg install sudo
   3. pkg install port-mgmt/portmaster
   4. pkg install subversion
   5. pkg install git
   6. pkg install revel/gettext-tools
   7. pkg install portsnap

Update the Ports all the Ports

This will take a while on the computers part once it starts 

portsnap fetch

Let it work, this next one can take even longer

portsnap extract

You don't need to do this step but I do just out of habit

portsnap update

You should get a message that everything is up to date, meaning you are done

Next time we update the documents... There are two ways, and one didn't work for me but may for you