George Neville-Neil - FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro

What is FreeBSD?
A Brief History of BSD
Features
Futures

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1. FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro George Neville-Neil gnn@freebsd.org January 20, 2015 TM ® George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 1 / 19
2. Overview TM ® What is FreeBSD? A Brief History of BSD Features Futures George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 2 / 19
3. Existential Background TM ® Network Protocol and Security Practitioner Twenty year veteran of BSDs and Operating Systems in general Coauthor of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System Member of FreeBSD’s Elected Core Team Director of the FreeBSD Foundation ACM Queue’s Kode Vicious George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 3 / 19
4. What is FreeBSD? TM ® Complete Operating System Tools and Source More than 24, 000 3rd Party Open Source Packages Complete Documentation An Open Source Community George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 4 / 19
5. Who uses FreeBSD? TM ® NetApp EMC/Isilon Dell/KACE Panasas Apple Limelight Networks Norse Swisscom Sentex WhatsApp Juniper Networks Verisign Perseus Telecom Sony Hudson River Trading McAfee NYI Yahoo George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 5 / 19
6. Why? TM ® History of innovation Great Tools Mature release model Documentation Business Friendly License George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 6 / 19
7. History: 30+ years in 3 minutes TM ® Chaos reigned MULTICS UNIX (Bell Labs) Berkeley Tools Tapes ex/vi Pascal Compiler Tools for UNIX CSRG, DARPA and the Internet Removal of last bits of AT&T Code Rewrite of all non open source code AT&T Lawsuit BSD is Free George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 7 / 19
8. Flavors and Branch Dates TM ® NetBSD Broad platforms support (1993) FreeBSD Rock Solid Performance (1993) OpenBSD Security (1996) PC-BSD Desktop (2006) George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 8 / 19
9. The FreeBSD Philosophy TM ® Don’t Sue Us Use our code Produce a whole system ready for development George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 9 / 19
10. Produce a Whole System TM ® Operating System Drivers Compilers and associated Tools Debugging Tools Editors Packaging System Ready for Coding when Install is Done George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 10 / 19
11. Some Recent Features and Innovations TM ® UFS2 ZFS DTrace VNet Jails LLVM/Clang/LLDB Capsicum MAC Framework netmap/VALE Linuxulator George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 11 / 19
12. Filesystems TM ® UFS Traditional Unix Filesystem High Performance Snapshots Journaled Soft Updates ZFS Zetabyte Filesystem Volume Manager RAID Fully up to date in FreeBSD George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 12 / 19
13. Security Features TM ® Jails MAC Framework Capsicum George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 13 / 19
14. Tools TM ® LLVM/Clang LLDB DTrace George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 14 / 19
15. DTrace TM ® Complete system transparency See inside any call or return System Calls Disk, NFS, Networking subsystems DTrace Toolkit George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 15 / 19
16. Networking TM ® IPFW and PF Dummynet netmap VALE VXLAN George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 16 / 19
17. Up Next TM ® Scaling Cores Queues NUMA ARM64 Virtualization Features MPTCP DCTCP Secure Boot/UEFI George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 17 / 19
18. Where to now? TM ® Website: www.freebsd.org FreeBSD Foundation: www.freebsdfoundation.org Mailing Lists Forums FreeBSD Handbook George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org) FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro January 20, 2015 18 / 19
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