Tracking the FreeBSD Sources
The easiest and most common upgrade path is simply to wait for each new official release. This involves little more than obtaining the CD or disk image file and then installing the new version of the operating system from it by using the same methods covered in Chapter 2, “Installing FreeBSD,” or described at the FreeBSD Web site. But this is hardly a real-time solution to the upgrade procedure. To really keep up with the times, you have to track the sources.
The source tree for FreeBSD is kept in a central CVS repository, mirrored across a number of redundant servers, and maintained by a fairly small core of contributors and committers. Rather than Linux's model—in which the sources for the kernel are available but ...
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