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    New FAQ? How is pfSense packaged?

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      MMacD
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      It should be easy to find this answer, but so far I haven't managed to do it.  Maybe it's too simple/obvious?

      How is pfSense packaged – as a monolith tightly integrated with (a perhaps stripped-down copy of) fBSD to be installed all in one go; as a package that can be added under an existing install of fBSD; both; something completely different?  ???

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        jasonlitka
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        @MMacD:

        It should be easy to find this answer, but so far I haven't managed to do it.  Maybe it's too simple/obvious?

        How is pfSense packaged – as a monolith tightly integrated with (a perhaps stripped-down copy of) fBSD to be installed all in one go; as a package that can be added under an existing install of fBSD; both; something completely different?  ???

        It's an appliance distro, not an application to be installed on FreeBSD.

        I can break anything.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          It is a custom build of FreeBSD+extra packages. Custom kernel, lots of changes.

          So it's a stand-alone distribution, it is not something that is an "add-on" to FreeBSD in that kind of sense.

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