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.
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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/)
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### 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.
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### 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.
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###Tarsnap
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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/)
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