What Is make world?
Rebuilding your entire system is certainly a more low-level, less “prepackaged” way of upgrading than simply dropping in a CD, but it's in accordance with the FreeBSD way of doing things: a sensibility that building your binaries from pure source is the only way to ensure that your system will truly be compatible with your hardware and your setup. It does involve a lot of steps and a fair amount of risk. However, the regimented structure of FreeBSD helps to mitigate the risk and allows us to enjoy the advantages that this method provides us.
The process of rebuilding the system is known as make world. It provides safeguards that would not normally be available if you were to install precompiled binaries from a CD—for example, ...
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