FreeBSD is not Linux
summary
FreeBSD claims to be a complete operating system (kernel plus base userland) rather than “Linux + distro” and ships coordinated releases every 6–9 months from a Subversion tree. It powers PlayStation 3/4, Netflix Open Connect nodes pushing ~100 Gbps per box and handling roughly 30% of peak internet traffic, and underpins appliances like NetApp/Isilon. Key tech: jails for lightweight containment, ZFS, DTrace, bhyve hypervisor, Linux binary compatibility and a ports tree producing 30,000 packages.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:32PlayStation
- 3:05Storage
- 3:35Netflix
- 4:33Whats Up
- 4:50FreeBSD
- 5:43What is FreeBSD
- 8:44History
- 9:24UC Berkeley
- 11:29What happened
- 14:39The early 1990s
- 17:05OpenBSD
- 18:56Tools
- 23:40Complete Operating System
- 27:34Hardware Support
- 29:15File Systems
- 31:51Security
- 33:14Yale
- 35:33TCPIP
- 37:58Hypervisor
- 39:20Ports Packages
- 41:09FreeBSD Team
- 42:29FreeBSD Foundation
- 43:27Resources
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