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Quick tip: Updating FreeBSD with freebsd-update

The freebsd-update application is a great tool for upgrading quickly. It’s quite easy to use, too.

Winetricks for adding dependencies in Wine

Learning how Wine allows emulation of Windows works under FreeBSD can be a task in of itself, let alone installing applications. Winetricks is a script aimed at making the installation of Windows dependencies a much easier task.

FreeBSD 8.0 installation walkthrough

FreeBSD is still king as far as the BSD’s go.

How to setup a MySQL server on FreeBSD

We’re always searching the ‘net for good howtos to share with the FreeBSD community. We found DruidSys.com’s MySQL server installation howto for FreeBSD 7.0 to be a good resource.

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