The March 2010 BSD Magazine includes an article I wrote titled Keeping FreeBSD Applications Up-to-Date . It’s a sequel to my article in the January 2010 BSD Magazine titled Keeping FreeBSD Up-to-Date: OS Essentials . With these two articles published, they replace the versions I wrote in 2005. I wrote these articles to demonstrate the variety of ways a system administrator can keep the FreeBSD operating system and applications up-to-date,... 

Keep your eyes open for the latest printed BSD Magazine , with my article Keeping FreeBSD Up-To-Date: OS Essentials. This article is something like 18 pages long, because at the last minute the publishers had several authors withdraw articles. The publishers decided to print the extended version of my article, so it’s far longer than I expected! We’re currently edited the companion piece on keeping FreeBSD applications up-to-date.... 

My main personal workstation is a Thinkpad x60s . As I wrote in Triple-Boot Thinkpad x60s , I have Windows XP, Ubuntu Linux, and FreeBSD installed. However, I rarely use the FreeBSD side. I haven’t run FreeBSD on the desktop for several years, but I like to keep FreeBSD on the laptop in case I encounter a situation on the road where I know how to solve a problem with FreeBSD but not Windows or Linux. (Yes I know about [insert favorite...