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pppp on March 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only...

It's gotten much easier to both upgrade and to install software. Example:

To apply security patches:

  freebsd-update fetch  

  freebsd-update install

To upgrade to a new version of the operating system:

  freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade

To install software:

  pkg install chromium

You can still use the ports system if you want to, but pkg is so much easier.

pppp on March 15, 2017 [–]

FYI, we're a long time Linux shop (mostly Ubuntu server) and are slowing moving away from it because I don't like the direction it is going (systemd, etc). I've got more than half of our systems on FreeBSD/OpenBSD now.

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