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How To Manage Packages on FreeBSD 10.1 with Pkg — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Packages on FreeBSD 10.1 with Pkg

FreeBSD’s binary package manager, pkg, can be used to easily manage the installation of pre-compiled applications—the FreeBSD equivalent Debian and RPM packages. In this tutorial, we will show you how to manage packages on FreeBSD 10.1. This includes installing and deleting packages, among other tasks.

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How To Add and Remove Users on FreeBSD — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add and Remove Users on FreeBSD

On FreeBSD, like other Unix-like OSes, user accounts can be created to provide interactive access to the system. User accounts, when managed properly, can add a layer of system security by providing a way to limit individual user’s access to only the files and directories that it needs to accomplish its tasks.

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How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 10.1 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 10.1

A FAMP stack, which is similar to a LAMP stack on Linux, is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a FreeBSD server to host dynamic websites and web apps. FAMP is an acronym that stands for FreeBSD (operating system), Apache (web server), MySQL (database server), and PHP (to process dynamic PHP content).

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How To Prepare For Your MySQL 5.7 Upgrade — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Prepare For Your MySQL 5.7 Upgrade

This tutorial will help you prepare to upgrade to MySQL 5.7 from earlier versions. It covers `sql_mode` with practical examples of query responses that get stricter. The tutorial also contains instructions for checking for warnings and errors, and contains a sample config file so you can test the new settings before upgrading. This article is from the [MySQL Team at Oracle](http://www.oracle.com/us/products/mysql/mysqlcommunityserver/overview/index.html).

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How To Build and Deploy Packages for Your FreeBSD Servers Using Buildbot and Poudriere — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Build and Deploy Packages for Your FreeBSD Servers Using Buildbot and Poudriere

Poudriere is the standard tool on FreeBSD to build, test, and audit packages as well as maintain the package repositories. In this tutorial you’ll configure Poudriere, build a set of desired packages, set up HTTP-base package hosting, and automate the build using Buildbot as a continuous integration platform. Next, you will access the packages from a client machine. Finally, if you want to integrate your own software builds with this process, you’ll step through building an example application.

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How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12.0 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12.0

A FAMP stack, which is similar to a LAMP stack on Linux, is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a FreeBSD server to host dynamic websites and web apps. FAMP is an acronym that stands for FreeBSD (operating system), Apache (web server), MySQL (database server), and PHP (to process dynamic PHP content).

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