In 2003, freebsd-update arrived, allowing users to perform binary updates from one FreeBSD release to another. That's a lot of collective time and energy saved by freeing regular users from building the same sources locally. After a solid 22-year run, freebsd-update support will end with the 14 branch. Its successor is pkgbase, which, as the name suggests, packages FreeBSD's base system. In short, the base system can now be managed similarly to third-party packages. To update from one po...
