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Re:PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems by pppp on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @10:19AM (#13876250)
It's gotten much easier to both upgrade and to install software. Example:

To apply security patches:

  freebsd-update fetch  

  freebsd-update install
To upgrade to a new version of the operating system:

  freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade
To install software:

  pkg install chromium
You can still use the ports system if you want to, but pkg is so much easier.
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Re:PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems by pppp on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:01PM (#13877649)
FYI, we're a long time Linux shop (mostly Ubuntu server) and are slowing moving away from it because I don't like the direction it is going (systemd, etc). I've got more than half of our systems on FreeBSD/OpenBSD now.
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