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Production User Calls
Meet with production users every week who rely professionally on:
- Jails and Zones - Agenda / Minutes
- OpenZFS - Agenda / Minutes
- The bhyve hypervisor - Agenda / Minutes
Thank you Prominic.NET for providing monthly funding for these efforts and at around 100 calls that can run up to three hours, every bit of support helps.
FreeBSD Build Option Survey Results
These Build Option Survey Build Results have quietly been the most active content on this site through the pandemic. They represents builds of several FreeBSD branches loosely tracking the Release Engineering weekly snapshots.
The official FreeBSD Build Option Survey (BOS) is extremely time consuming.
"BOS Lite" uses an OccamBSD script to exclude all options, providing the bare-minimum OS build, which conveniently exercises the majority of FreeBSD build options.
Making all FreeBSD build options work by the 13.0 release was a multi-year effort involving several people and there have been very few regressions.
FreeBSD History Rebuild
This spreadsheet describes the status of FreeBSD release ISOs that are not available at ftp-archive.freebsd.org. If you have any of these historic releases obtained by FTP download or Walnut Creek CD-ROMs, mail Michael confirmation of your checksums and post missing images. Thank you for your help!
Blog
Stop Blogging and Start Documenting
https://cft.lv/29
#Documentation
January 15th, 2024
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
CFT is just as guilty and the projects are not blameless
BSD Talk 267: Hans Petter Selasky
August 26th, 2023
© Michael Dexter
Michael's 2008 BSD Talk interview with Hans Petter Selasky who passed away this summer in a traffic accident in Norway
tmux and bhyve
https://cft.lv/28
#virtualization
July 6th, 2020
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
tmux can provide console logging and command injection to bhyve virtual machines
March 2020 Update
Introducing up.bsd.lv, a proof-of-concept of binary update service for FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT and 12-STABLE to facilitate the exhaustive testing of FreeBSD and the bhyve hypervisor and OpenZFS 2.0 specifically. Updates are based on the SVN revisions of official FreeBSD Release Engineering weekly snapshots.
December 2019 Update
Announcing the bhyve VirtFS/9p Completion Project to provide groundwork for full WSL2-like support in FreeBSD and illumos.
March 2019 Updates
- Announcing bhyvecon Ottawa 2019!
- FreeBSD History Rebuild is part of the RetroChallenge 2019/03
- Björn Zeeb has addressed the INET and INET6 FreeBSD build options!
February 2019 Updates
- FreeBSD 11.1R and 12.0R Build Option Survey results posted
- bhyvecon.org updated with CFP, venue, date, and Twitter handle
- bhyve.org updated with bi-weekly call agenda and minutes, plus 2019 Refactoring fundraising
- BSDFund.org update with 2019 fundraising information and updated F.A.Q.
Weak Links and Slow Bison
https://cft.lv/27
#CrowdFunding #OpenZFS #ARM #virtualization
December 19th, 2018
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Fifteen years in, I am seeking my first funding which I will use for critical testing of OpenZFS, ARM and hypervisors
OpenSSL Relicensing: An Objection
https://cft.lv/26
#SoftwareFreedom #Licensing
April 10th, 2017
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Remember to understand the problem before you fix the problem
bhyve-Bootable OpenZFS Boot Environments
https://cft.lv/25
#ZFS #bhyve
June 29th, 2016
Version 1.4
© Michael Dexter
Elegantly-simple multibooting and OS upgrades with ZFS Boot Environments and bhyve
Holiday Giving Guide
https://cft.lv/24
#GivingBack
December 10th, 2014, Updated December 15th, 2018
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
There is a 99% chance you benefit from these organizations
ZFS Resilver Speed Comparisons
https://cft.lv/23
#ZFS
October 27th, 2014
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Only 10 or so more variables to consider...
Michael's Happy
https://cft.lv/22
#BSD #PF #ZFS #bhyve
September 13th, 2014
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
The BSD Desktop: Better late than never
Which FreeNAS?
https://cft.lv/21
#FreeNAS #FreeBSD #ZFS
April 5th, 2013
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Lessons from a year in the trenches with BSD's killer app
Book Review: Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition
https://cft.lv/20
#OpenBSD #Unix
February 26th, 2013
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
One of the most collectable BSD books receives a ten-year update
Gnome 3 on OpenBSD 5.2
https://cft.lv/19
#Gnome #OpenBSD
January 31st, 2013
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
The best Gnome 3 experience on BSD can be found where you'd least expect it
From Presentation Hell to Hope
https://cft.lv/18
#BSD #OpenSource
January 25th, 2013
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Rest assured, presenting is just another learned skill
Hands-on bhyve Current
https://cft.lv/17
#FreeBSD #bhyve #Virtualization
November 30th, 2012
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
The countdown to importing bhyve into FreeBSD has begun
The Permissive License Proprietization Curse
https://cft.lv/16
#SoftwareFreedom #BSD #GPL
October 29th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
SMP and 64-bit addressing are passing fads, right?
PC-BSD: From Crap to Critical
https://cft.lv/15
#PCBSD #FreeBSD #ZFS
September 29th, 2012
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
PC-BSD is rapidly becoming a better FreeBSD than FreeBSD
The Crossroads
https://cft.lv/14
#SoftwareFreedom #HardwareFreedom #RestrictedBoot #Apple
August 27th, 2012
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
This swing of the IT pendulum is poised to slice off the hand that feeds it
The Community Leadership Summit 2012
https://cft.lv/13
#CLS12 #BSD #Community #OpenSource
July 14th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Lessons from a diverse group of people who develop communities rather than code
ZFS Portability
https://cft.lv/12
#ZFS #FreeNAS #FreeBSD #PCBSD #UBUNTU #OpenIndiana #Illumos
July 11th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Consider for a moment that ZFS is a cross-platform RAID filesystem
The Monocultural Revolution
https://cft.lv/11
#DragonFlyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
June 27th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
The bigger they are, the harder they fall and maximum size can bring maximum failure
OSCON 2011 in Photos
https://cft.lv/10
#OSCON #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
May 30th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
OSCON 2011 in 1,077,000 words (1,000 words/picture...)
bhyve.org Launches
#FreeBSD #bhyve #Virtualization
April 25th, 2012
You can find a ready-to-run bhyve package and guest images at bhyve.org!
Bandwidth courtesy of NYC*BUG, the New York City *BSD User Group
BSDCons
https://cft.lv/9
#DragonFlyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
March 14th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
The BSDCons are the lifeblood of the BSDs
UFS Journaling Soft-updates
https://cft.lv/8
#DragonFlyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux
March 12th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Marshall Kirk McKusick and Jeff Roberson, reproduced with the permission of Mr. McKusick.
The modern UFS filesystem has many obvious and not-so-obvious advantages
Hardware Proprietarity
https://cft.lv/7
#Hardware #SysAdmin
February 23rd, 2012
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
Inelegant hardware has long been the bane of elegant software but some hardware offenses are inexcusable
OSCON 2012: Bring Back BSD
https://cft.lv/6
#OSCON #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
March 13th, 2012
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
OSCON 2012 is coming and Unix will be everywhere, yet invisible
EuroBSDCon 2011 in Photos
https://cft.lv/5
#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon
December 26th, 2011
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Just under 400 photos from EuroBSDCon 2011
Hands-on bhyve
https://cft.lv/4
#FreeBSD #bhyve #Virtualization
March 29th, 2012
Version 3.0
© Michael Dexter
FreeBSD 9.0 bhyve setup in a single script
What a Difference a Year Makes
https://cft.lv/3
#DragonFlyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
October 31st, 2011
Version 1.2
© Michael Dexter
From historic events to a cure for insomnia, the last 12 months have been great for BSD
EuroBSDCon 2011
https://cft.lv/2
#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon
October 25th, 2011
Version 1.2
© Michael Dexter
Ten years of collective practice make for an outstanding conference
How Apple Treats the Gift of Open Source: The OpenBSD PF Example
https://cft.lv/1
#OpenBSD #MacOSX #PF
October 8th, 2011
Version 1.0
© Peter N. M. Hansteen with commentary by Henning Brauer and Michael Dexter
Mac OS X now has a newer PF than FreeBSD, what else is there to see?
HelloWorld!
https://cft.lv/0
#BSD
October 8th, 2011
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Welcome to Call For Testing, an online technical journal dedicated to the Berkley Unix. Call For Testing picks up where other BSD-related publications leave off by providing:
- Authoritative BSD technical information that aims to document, analyze and inspire
- In-depth BSD conference reporting for those unable to attend
- Unbiased analysis of BSD business and community management issues
- Community outreach and coordination involving developer hardware acquisition, event organization and formal advocacy
- Actual calls for testing of new code to help guarantee that the BSD's remain "The greatest software ever written." (Information Week, August 2006)
- Ultimately, a platform for educating and orienting the next generation of BSD developers
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