LinuxFest Northwest 2019: FreeBSD is Everywhere
Channel: linuxfestnorthwest
Date: 2019-05-01

Presented by Michael Dexter 

The FreeBSD Unix Operating System just celebrated its 25th anniversary and traces its roots to decades more of Unix development at the University of California, Berkeley. While FreeBSD continues the tradition of a true Unix environment, it offers cutting-edge features like the OpenZFS file system, Jails containment system, bhyve hypervisor and Packet Filter firewall. FreeBSD runs on the smallest embedded systems up through multi-Petabyte storage systems thanks to its scalable architecture and OpenZFS, and offers familiar desktop environments like Gnome, XFCE, and KDE.

This talk will give a brief history of FreeBSD and tour of its features. It will cover how FreeBSD is being used both directly and in derivatives like FreeNAS and pfSense.