Building a Physical FreeBSD Build Status Dashboard

Introduction FreeBSD now has a number of continuous integration jobs on Jenkins CI to build and test FreeBSD on various architectures, and the newly implemented Tinderbox View presents a high-level, simple dashboard to the real-time FreeBSD CI build status. This display is so useful that we wanted a physical version in our office to monitor […]

Powering up the future: the new FreeBSD cluster in Chicago

The FreeBSD Foundation has recently made a significant investment of over $100,000 to install a server cluster in Chicago. This investment aims to strengthen the infrastructure of the FreeBSD Project, improve its capabilities, and provide better services to its users. To support this expansion, the Foundation has partnered with NYI, which has generously contributed four […]

Installing FreeBSD as a Primary Operating System

Updated: June 15, 2022 Requirements: Computer with a USB or CD slot for burning the image. You will need root privileges on this device. Host device that you intend to run FreeBSD on. The device will need to be able to read either a USB stick or a CD/DVD. One of the following depending on the […]

ZFS Images From Scratch, or makefs -t zfs

ZFS Images From Scratch, or makefs -t zfs By Mark Johnston For a long time, the FreeBSD project has made virtual machine (VM) disk images available on its download site: just go to https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES to find a selection of pre-built images for download. These come in a variety of formats recognized by common hypervisors such as QEMU, […]

Enhance Your Git Experience

Git_Experience_Practical_ports By Benedict Reuschling Version control has been around for a long time. Having a way to keep a certain version of a file in a state where it is retrieved is the start of our journey. After all, that’s what backup software is for. Some people use version control systems (VCS) that way, but […]

Bulk Port Management With Poudriere

Updated: September 10, 2021 Step 1: Using the Ports Collection to Install Poudriere: All commands in this section should be run as root, using the su(1) command will work. You’ll need to start by installing git: # pkg install git Then, use git to clone the ports collection into /usr/ports: # git clone https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports Next, build […]

rdist

rdist By Cy Schubert What is RDIST? To quote the man page, “rdist is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts.” rdist is a general-purpose tool that can be utilized for multiple purposes, such as maintaining consistent copies of files across the network, like rsync and unison do, or as a […]

Cloudnium Case Study

Cloudnium’s Adoption of FreeBSD for Advanced Hosting Solutions Cloudnium, founded by Earl Adams in Fort Worth, Texas, is a cutting-edge service provider specializing in high-density cabinets and hosting solutions for AI and cloud computing. Leveraging FreeBSD for its stability, security, and performance, Cloudnium meets the evolving needs of its clients. With a rich history in […]

Conference Recap: FOSDEM 2017

FOSDEM 2017 was held on the first weekend of February. After last year’s success of having a one day FreeBSD devsummit during the first conference day, we decided that this year, we’d do an extra day (Friday) right before FOSDEM. This ensured that there was no overlap with talks that attendees wanted to see (or […]

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