We are really close to have a FreeBSD amd64 driver for Nvidia graphical boards.
You can read progresses on this
post.
Christian Zander, a Software Engineer at Nvidia, said:
“at this point, native FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64 NVIDIA graphics drivers work on both platforms, as do OpenGL applications native to them; FreeBSD/i386 OpenGL applications also run on FreeBSD/amd64. Further, with a recent set of Linuxulator mmap() fixes, Linux/x86 OpenGL applications work on both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64.”
Well, great news!
He couldn’t give a date for public BETA driver release, tough. 
Thank you Zander and FreeBSD hackers, especially John Baldwin, to make this possibile.
FreeBSD, Technology driver, FreeBSD, nvidia
There are many battery manager out of there for the most of Desktop Environments but if you don’t want to use them and spend most of your time in a terminal session you would take a look to acpiconf on FreeBSD.
% acpiconf -i0
Return all the information about your battery number 0, though you may be interested only in remaining time and state of battery (charging, discharging).
You may use this my own script. It is free as in beer 
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#!/bin/sh
acpiconf -i0 | grep Remaining
acpiconf -i0 | grep State
FreeBSD, Technology acpi, acpiconf, cli, FreeBSD
If you are a C/C++ programmer and use Italian keyboard you know the missing of ~ char.
I know you can use ALT+126(numeric pad) but that’s very painful on laptop.
I casually discover that under X many terminal emulator such as xterm, urxvt accept a convenience shortcut:
ALTGR+ì gives you the tilde ~
Another very important character in the shell programming is the `(ALT+96).
ALTGR+’ gives you the `
That works on console too.
FreeBSD, Technology
