June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
29h 12m
English
Content preview from FreeBSD6 Unleashed
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Chapter 19. Keeping Up to Date with FreeBSD
IN THIS CHAPTER
Every operating system has to have a way of keeping up with the times. Administrators need to get security patches, bug fixes, and support for new technologies into their installed systems without waiting for new full releases, which can take anywhere from six months to three years or more in the operating system world. In today’s “Internet time” environment, however, hackers can compromise systems within hours of a security breach announcement, ...