About

In Base is a blog series about the surprising depth of the FreeBSD base system — the parts of the kernel, libraries, tooling, and docs that ship and version together as one audited whole, and that an experienced Unix user coming from Linux or macOS would never find on their own.

The recurring claim behind every post: it’s already there, no package step; it composes with the rest of base; and it’s documented in a man page that’s actually a specification. Each post opens with something you can paste on a stock FreeBSD box, names the Linux or macOS equivalent where one exists, and ends with why shipping it in base matters.

Examples are pinned to a stated FreeBSD version so you always know what you need on the box in front of you.