https://wiki.linuxservertech.com/ 2026-05-09T18:06:33+00:00 https://wiki.linuxservertech.com/ https://wiki.linuxservertech.com/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-02-04T21:39:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.linuxservertech.com/unix/freebsd/forlinuxadmins/branches?rev=1770241154&do=diff FreeBSD Branches FreeBSD has several channels, or branches, allowing users to customize their installations based on their personal requirements. The top three are Release, Stable and Current. Bottom line is, use Release for stability, Stable for new features and Current for true bleeding edge. I remember it by text/html 2016-09-05T23:06:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.linuxservertech.com/unix/freebsd/forlinuxadmins/device_naming_conventions?rev=1473116774&do=diff Device Naming Conventions Block Devices FreeBSD creates block device names based on type, similar to the way Linux does. A device name is a 2-3 letter indicator of device type, followed by an integer showing its hierarchy in the initial search. Note: text/html 2024-02-18T08:42:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.linuxservertech.com/unix/freebsd/forlinuxadmins/equivilents?rev=1708245756&do=diff BSD Equivilents to Linux Commands Equivilents For longtime Linux systems administrators, one of the greatest difficulties is finding the equivalent command in BSD to perform a task. Following table lists some of the ones I finally figured out. Linux Command text/html 2026-02-05T05:46:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.linuxservertech.com/unix/freebsd/forlinuxadmins/start?rev=1770270411&do=diff Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Administrators Ok, I have been a Debian Linux Sysadmin for decades. Now, moving to FreeBSD. These notes are what I have discovered in my recent treks. * There is an excellent handbook for FreeBSD located at <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/>. Probably the best documentation I have seen in a long time. Use it. Read it. Download it and store it where you can read it even when you are offline. text/html 2026-02-04T03:16:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.linuxservertech.com/unix/freebsd/forlinuxadmins/upgradeos?rev=1770175004&do=diff Upgrading FreeBSD This article only shows how to do upgrades across releases. It is fairly straight forward, though like any OS, doing a major upgrade of this type requires patience, especially as with FreeBSD the entire ports and binary libraries are upgraded also. text/html 2016-09-06T00:34:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.linuxservertech.com/unix/freebsd/forlinuxadmins/using_linux_tools?rev=1473122056&do=diff Using Linux Tools You need the compatibility layer. Do the following: kldload linprocfs cat 'linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw,late 0 0' >> /etc/fstab mkdir -p /usr/compat/linux/proc ln -s /usr/compat /compat mount linproc See <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/29559/>