Chapter 18. Keeping Up to Date with FreeBSD

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Every operating system has to have a way of keeping up with the times. Security patches, bug fixes, and support for new technologies have to get into people's installed systems without forcing them to wait for new full releases, which can take anything from six months to three years in the operating system world. In a world that operates on “Internet time,” in which you could find your system compromised by a hacker hours after a security breach is made public, ...

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