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Painlessly Update FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the a-slight-pinch dept.

boarder8925 writes "Over at BSDnews, Steve Wingate has written an article on how to easily update FreeBSD. Wingate begins his article by saying, "One of the greatest advantages that *BSD has over other Unix variants is the cvsup/make world process. Unlike most Linux distributions it isn't necessary to wait months for a new version to be released for you to upgrade your system. The cvsup/make world process allows you to update your system at any time. I'm going to show you how to make the process as painless as possible." The article discusses the following: installing CVSup, choosing a cvsup server, configuring make.conf, and, finally, performing the upgrade. The piece is also available as a .pdf file."

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  1. And the advantage Linux has over BSD... by xoran99 · · Score: 0, Funny

    Linux isn't dead.

    *ducks*

    Mod me troll if you must, but I know I'm funny :P

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  3. Re:Anonymous Coward's Guide to Updating Debian by JamieF · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Its rather nice not to change software in 3 years or so.

    Sure, if you like using 4 or 5 year old hardware. If you want to use newer hardware, you have to run a "testing" kernel. Case in point: a 160GB hard disk attached to an ATA/133 card... gotta have 2.4.20 to handle it. I would have been limited to using 127MB of it, and accessing it thru the mobo's blazingly fast UltraDMA/33 ports, if I was determined to stay with "stable".