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1- What would be the best way to learn posix with focus on BSD's, shell and Perl? 2- Is there another language for sysadmins besides shell and Perl? 3- What is the best way to navigate the FreeBSD source code? 4- What are the languages most used in FreeBSD development? PS.: I'm not a developer...

Heads up: So, this turned out to be very long. Longer than I anticipated before I started writing. Also, I'm not completely certain whether this shouldn't have gone into user space programing. Since it's still very much tied into base, I'll leave it here for the moment and ask the moderators to...

Hello. While trying to sleep yesterday I had this idea. Nothing new and probably will not be implemented, specially by me who can't write code, but I am sharing it anyway. The idea would be to have a P2P core/daemon/engine in Base with some API to be used by clients including pkg...

The very first program I install after installing FreeBSD is beadm so that I can manage boot environments. The main reason I use FreeBSD is for its ZFS support and bootenvs are the star feature. I'm willing to bet a large wodge of cash that I'm not the only person who uses FreeBSD specifically...

Hi, I'd like to know if you have a good way of keeping a system completely up to date in a completely automated way. If my understanding is correct, I can add 42 8 * * * freebsd-update cron in root's crontab to have the base system (I guess that means the kernel and the programs in /bin)...