[Bug 288523] FreeBSD handbook chapter 12: outdated debootstrap recomendation

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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:29:11 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288523

            Bug ID: 288523
           Summary: FreeBSD handbook chapter 12: outdated debootstrap
                    recomendation
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Website
          Assignee: doc@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: mikael@oxcrag.net

In chapter 12.3.3 of the FreeBSD handbook, on using a Ubuntu userland in the
Linuxulator, the recommended command is `debootstrap focal /compat/ubuntu`.
Focal is EOL since the end of May 2025 so should no longer be the recommended
version. Since there is no apparent way of installing Noble with debootstrap
currently, the correct example command until that happens should be
`debootstrap jammy /compat/ubuntu`.

Also the list of Ubuntu repositories to be placed in /etc/apt/sources.list in
the Linuxulator chroot environment, will need to have focal replaced with
jammy.

In the `uname -s -r -m` example, a current (14.3-RELEASE-p1) version of FreeBSD
outputs `Linux 5.15.0 x86_64` on the appropriate architecture.

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