Tor on FreeBSD Handbook

Intro + overview

Not in scope:

• Ports

Disclaimer + contact address to give feedback/suggestions

Introduction to FreeBSD

• FreeBSD base is larger and more complete than Linux (which is only a kernel).
• Feels fairly similar to Linux because they both have some shared heritage.
• Lots of tools, applications etc. that are available to popular Linux distributions are also available on FreeBSD.

Directory structure

/etc/rc.conf

x Software lifecycle and management

On many GNU/Linux distributions the update tooling (dpkg/apt/apt-get, rpm/yum/dnf, pacman, apk etc.) will update both the kernel and everything else at the same time. But on FreeBSD the ‘base’ and ’everything else’ is seperated much more. The base operating system is managed by freebsd-update while packages are managed by pkg.

x.1 FreeBSD security updates

Debian users General FreeBSD security information can be found on FreeBSD’s security webpage.

# install security patches
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install

# or in one line
freebsd-update fetch install

Networking