Determining the version of FreeBSD

Charlie_ said:
Even if I explain otherwise, you will write 'I avoid this form of communication like the plague.'
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Don't act like this,please. I don't even remember the context where I said that. Probably you are interpreting the sentence like a form of revenge ? just because I don't read the man pages ? Bro,I want to learn,but in an explanatory form suitable for my intellectual capacities.
 
I'm just going to pop in here real quick and pop right out again.

Learn man pages. It hurts 0.1, and increases power by 1000.

Designers are usually extremely consciencious about populating them with useful and actionable info, while they treat every other form of documentation like homework. And usually homework in a course they don't even care about failing.

Ok outie bye.
 
"man pages" (short hand for manual as in RTFM) are usually installed on every *nix type system. Quick and easy way to access information about a command.
If you know what command you want, say cp, "man cp" will give you information about the cp command. Things like arguments, options, return codes, gets you a quick overview of what options you may want for what you want to do.
If you don't know what command you want, "man -k keyword" (like man -k version) gives you a list of commands with "version" as part of the description. Pipe it to more (or less), find something that sounds reasonable, then do "man what_sounds_reasonable"
 
I don't understand man pages. Probably I have a mental retardation. Someone called me as a "moron". I suspect that it's the right definition.
 
Charlie_ said:
At the time it was written, manual pages were irrelevant.
This time I have quoted so that you only need to read the part I wrote, but are you still unable to understand?
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yes,man pages are too theoretical and abstract 4 me. Their language is too technical, and they don't provide practical examples. I don't understand what they want to explain and without practical examples, I don't know how to operationalize the concepts.
 
What does the following command return?
elfdump -n /usr/bin/uname|grep ABI
grep ABI /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf

You can also change it with the -o option.
pkg -o ABI=...
However, There is no quartely yet, so you need to use latest.
Code: 
$ w3m -dump http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:aarch64/
Index of /FreeBSD:15:aarch64/

 File Name  ↓    File Size  ↓      Date  ↓
Parent directory/ -              -
base_latest/      -              2025-Sep-19 12:03
base_weekly/      -              2025-Sep-14 12:04
kmods_latest/     -              2025-Aug-08 12:01
latest/           -              2025-Sep-09 17:19
 
Charlie_ said:
What does the following command return?
elfdump -n /usr/bin/uname|grep ABI
grep ABI /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf

You can also change it with the -o option.
pkg -o ABI=...
However, There is no quartely yet, so you need to use latest.
Code: 
$ w3m -dump http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:aarch64/
Index of /FreeBSD:15:aarch64/

 File Name  ↓    File Size  ↓      Date  ↓
Parent directory/ -              -
base_latest/      -              2025-Sep-19 12:03
base_weekly/      -              2025-Sep-14 12:04
kmods_latest/     -              2025-Aug-08 12:01
latest/           -              2025-Sep-09 17:19
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This command :

elfdump -n /usr/bin/uname|grep ABI

is very useful to determine the version of the userland. It showed that I was running a real 13.0 userland.
 
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