Today – which is 2026/06/19 – is another anniversary of FreeBSD Day. Because of that kinda special ‘holiday’ I also prepared something special … FreeBSD project slowly but successfully is moving forward into the future with PKGBASE way of things … and freebsd-update(8) days are limited as it this tool will be deprecated and gone when FreeBSD 16.0-RELEASE will see the light of day. I was never a big fan of freebsd-update(8) tool – not that it was very bad at what it was designed to do … it was just always interactive and time consuming. Fetching binary delta patches took hours between major releases and FreeBSD developers also cried while preparing these patches between every possibility. So … as a kinda Easter Egg I prepared something special for 33rd FreeBSD Anniversary (Max Verstappen number for many years BTW) … a terminal screensaver that mimics the freebsd-update(8) tool This image below is a real life example on how freebsd-update(8) upgrade looks like. … and this is what I was…
No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.