FreeBSD, The Other Unix-Like Operating System and Why You Should Get Involved!
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FreeBSD traces to 1993 with a UNIX lineage, ships as a complete OS (not just a kernel), and supports 33,000+ packages and millions of deployments including iOS/macOS components and PlayStation consoles. Production users run high-throughput stacks—Netflix serves video from FreeBSD servers at ~90 Gbps per server—and the system provides ZFS, DTrace and ZFS, jails (lightweight containers), bhyve hypervisor, Capsicum sandboxing, RISC‑V support, and a 5.7M‑line kernel maintained by a volunteer project plus a US 501(c)(3) foundation.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:16Goals
- 3:45What is FreeBSD
- 5:59Timeline
- 10:19who uses FreeBSD
- 10:54community
- 14:31teams
- 17:03commuters
- 19:09releases
- 20:32how to contribute
- 22:44why companies use FreeBSD
- 23:16Netflix
- 24:14Where FreeBSD Stands Out
- 24:39Guest Speaker
- 30:42Userspace
- 33:01File Systems
- 37:31Cherry
- 39:18Morello
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