Adding regular FreeBSD repos to pfsense
The concensus seems to be that adding any software to your router is a bad idea, however, it is clear that pfsense has added software to their router, for instance, they add vim (a conceptually outdated editor that requires practice to use and is difficult for all but old hat Unix stalwarts to use). One other is that pfsense uses a very outdated shell. They use /bin/sh. Most distributions of Linux and such have moved on to products such as zsh (Apple does with their version of BSD), and bash (which itself is infrequently updated and quite dated). I set out to be able to get zsh installed for my account (can only get in with RSA keys), to allow me to do a bit more and have a more…