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BSD: An Introduction, Jails, and Symlinks
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HowTo Geek ☛ BSD: What is it, and how is it different from Linux?
Looking around at lesser-known operating systems, you've likely come across something called BSD, or FreeBSD. Both Linux and BSD are open source, Unix-like operating systems, but they're different. Here's what you need to know.
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Dan Langille ☛ I broke my FreeBSD MySQL jail; got it working again by using a snapshot
It turns out, that upgrade procedure is now my recovery procedure.
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Dan Langille ☛ Poudriere symlinks for repos
I have some repos which are specific to certain tasks.
Every time I upgrade major version (as I just did from FreeBSD 14.3 to FreeBSD 15.0), I need to remember to go in and add in those symlinks.