freebsdguy

FreeBSD Update actually rocks hard for binary patching your system. Easy to use with 1 command line, and also comes as part of the 6.x branch if I’m not mistaken!

james@clarkee.co.uk /usr/home/james# freebsd-update fetch install
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org… done.
Fetching metadata index… done.
Inspecting system… done.
Preparing to download files… done.

The following files are affected by updates, but no changes have
been downloaded because the files have been modified locally:
/etc/rc.d/jail

No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p3.
No updates are available to install.

I installed freebsd on a laptop last night (Dell Latitude D600 if you care) and went about configuring some desktop software.

The only thing I was shocked to learn was that flash still doesn’t work reliably. After reading Randi’s post (freebsdgirl.com) and several others, I still wasn’t getting anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »