Usually you&#x27;d be running the same userland daemons on FreeBSD that you might on Linux. Web servers, databases, OpenSSHd, file networking protocols (FTP, SMB, NFS, etc), and so on  aren&#x27;t generally tied to a particular kernel version since ABIs are not subject to frequent changes (it would be very bad if they were).<p>So with that in mind, you can update your userland on FreeBSD without updating your kernel in much the same way as you can do with Linux. Though it is recommended that you update the entire stack on either platform.