FreeBSD: Code, Community and Collaboration
summary
FreeBSD presents itself as a complete, integrated OS with a permissive BSD license, a ~5.5M-line kernel versus Linux’s ~27M, and about 33,000 packages available. Governance is a nine-person core team with hundreds of committers and thousands of contributors; a strong mentorship pipeline exists. Recent engineering moves include migrating to git, consuming OpenZFS, and CHERI/CHERI-BSD work with Arm; Netflix runs lightly customized FreeBSD OCAs delivering >100 Tbps globally (single OCA ~90 Gbps). Releases follow current/stable branches (12.2 point, 13.0 major).
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:04What is FreeBSD
- 3:11History of FreeBSD
- 4:59Who uses FreeBSD
- 6:24How the project works
- 9:14Functional teams and roles
- 11:20Release process and branches
- 12:45Ways to contribute
- 13:50Exciting developments
- 16:58Companies using FreeBSD
- 18:23Containerization in FreeBSD
- 19:06Learning from FreeBSD
- 20:07Why contribute to FreeBSD
- 21:33Community and inclusivity
- 22:15Why use FreeBSD on desktop
- 22:36How to get started
- 23:40FreeBSD resources
- 25:38Q&A session begins
- 25:58FreeBSD for daily use
- 27:05Running other OS software
- 27:47BSD vs Linux kernel
- 28:50Sony’s contributions to FreeBSD
- 29:31FreeBSD vs Linux popularity
- 31:41FreeBSD performance edge
- 32:24Hardware compatibility
- 32:45Career growth with FreeBSD
- 34:53Pandemic impact on FreeBSD
- 38:01How to donate and contribute
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