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March 4, 2021 47 mins
FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks, FreeBSD Jails Deep Dive by Klara Systems, FreeBSD Foundation looking for a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer & OSS Project Coordinator, macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS by helloSystem, A Trip into FreeBSD and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks - Performance Is Much Better (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd-13-beta1&num=6) FreeBSD Jails – Deep Dive into the Beginning of FreeBSD Containers (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-jails-the-beginning-of-freebsd-containers/) In recent years, containers and virtualization have become a buzzword in the Linux community, especially with the rise of Docker and Kubernetes. What many people probably don’t realize is that these ideas have been around for a very long time. Today, we will be looking at Jails and how they became part of FreeBSD. News Roundup FreeBSD Jobs The FreeBSD Foundation is looking for a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer (https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10369/senior-arm-kernel-engineer-at-the-freebsd-foundation/) The FreeBSD Foundation is also looking for an Open Source Project Coordinator. (https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10367/freebsd-open-source-project-coordinator-at-freebsd/) *** ### helloSystem Releases New ISOs For This macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=helloSystem-New-12.1-Exp-ISOs) > The helloSystem motto is being a "desktop system for creators with focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. Less, but better!" The desktop utilities are written with PyQt5. *** ### A Trip into FreeBSD (https://christine.website/blog/a-trip-into-freebsd-2021-02-13) > I normally deal with Linux machines. Linux is what I know and it's what I've been using since I was in college. A friend of mine has been coaxing me into trying out FreeBSD, and I decided to try it out and see what it's like. Here's some details about my experience and what I've learned. *** ###Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Beastie Bits Testing Linux Steam Proton on GhostBSD with BSD linuxulator - NO Audio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ihW0m3bRQ) New Build of DragonFlyBSD 5.8 (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2021-February/381550.html) Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board (https://github.com/krjdev/rock64_openbsd) FOSDEM BSD Track Videos are up (https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/bsd/) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) *** Special Guest: Dan Langille.
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