Hi, does this apply to non US citizen residing in the United States? Those one without permanent resident but on visas such as H1B, F1 or J1?

Guys, I was unable to install it with X and GNOME on virtualbox. Can someone share the working virtualbox snapshot of FreeBSD 10 along with X and GNOME on it so that noob linux users like me can try.

Try PC-BSD, it is FreeBSD based desktop oriented release that will welcome you with GUI installer and will install you the entire windowed ecosystem.

I found this, which worked for me:

https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=28804

In Vbox:

Right click on the VM to edit...

Settings > System > Extended Features: Enable IO APIC

Does it come with a GUI or not?

It depends what do you mean by GUI: if you're asking if it is a desktop ready release, then no, it doesnt come with GUI, but at any point you can install XFCE/Gnome/KDE on it and turn it into a desktop system. However, you might want to look at PC-BSD which is a FreeBSD based desktop oriented release. If you're asking if it does have graphical installator then yes, it does have ncurses based installator.

FreeBSD targets servers, so after installation you will simply get a text console.

You can install X11 though which by itself is a good experience because it makes you understand how given components interact with each other. They also have great handbook which explains standard administration. Here is section that tells you how to configure X11: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x1...

Yes, but you'll need to use the PC-BSD distribution instead of the (much smaller/barebones) base FreeBSD distro.