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Ports
	All the ports - how to save time if you have the disk space 22 Aug 1998 Building a port - background info on make 4 Oct 1998 fetch - and how to use it behind a firewall 4 Jan 1999 Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999 Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999 What is installed? 6 Jun 1999 using make to upgrade your ports 19 Nov 1999 Installing a port without installing the ports 14 Jan 2000 When cvsup'ing your ports, remember the base distribution 20 Jan 2000 distfile sharing via anonymous FTP 25 Feb 2000 Have you seen FreshPorts yet? 14 May 2000 Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000 FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000 FreshPorts goes offline 5 Jul 2000 Keeping up with the ports - pkg_version 5 Aug 2000 Diary update 1 Feb 2001 installing bind8 from ports 28 Mar 2001 Specifying alternative port download sites 5 Jun 2001 Got ports? Here is THE way to upgrade them! 11 Dec 2001 pkgdb - packages database tool 28 Dec 2001 And one port to install them all! 14 Jan 2002 Removing Firefox 2 19 Oct 2009


System upgrades
	upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999 mergemaster - a great tool when upgrading 4 Mar 1999 /etc/rc.conf changes for 3.1 6 Mar 1999 Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999 Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Kernel Configuration Options 16 May 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999 Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999 What is installed? 6 Jun 1999 Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999 how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999 Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999 proftpd and FreeBSD 7 Dec 1999 unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005