*Big* shoutout to the #FreeBSD team that created #pkgbase and the 15.1 release.
I upgraded 3 different notebooks and a desktop today, each update just took a few minutes.
This was the first upgrade since a very long time that was completely smooth by just following the excellently documented steps in the upgrade notes (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-pkg).
No need to manually deal with incompatible DRM kmods anymore. No searching the web anymore to make sure one doesn't have to fix the system in single user mode.
And simply keeping the system patch level up to date with #pkg is very slick as well.
Thank you very much for all that!
#ThankYouThursday
Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו
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