Let's talk FreeBSD (finally)
from Changelog Interviews
This week we're joined by FreeBSD & OpenZFS developer, Allan Jude, to learn all about FreeBSD. Allan gives us a brief history of BSD, tells us why it's his operating system of choice, compares it to Linux, explains the various BSDs out there & answers every curious question we have about this powerful (yet underrepresented) Unix-based operating system.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:06 Sponsor: Vercel
- 4:35 Start the show!
- 4:52 The setup (thanks Vladimir!)
- 5:43 A brief history of BSD
- 12:16 Why Allen chose BSD
- 14:40 Why Allen stays with BSD
- 17:34 Does Allen like Linux?
- 18:22 Sponsor: Rocky Linux
- 23:16 BSD & the OS pecking order
- 26:11 BSD's relationship to ZFS
- 33:16 The other BSDs
- 40:14 Sponsor: Read Write Own
- 41:35 Best starter BSD?
- 43:17 BSD for homelab?
- 45:41 BSD for Docker?
- 50:01 FreeBSD & networking
- 51:18 Allan's network use cases
- 53:51 Load balanced Pi-hole's?!
- 58:24 The totalitarian network
- 1:00:01 Package availability
- 1:02:26 Feeding the LLMs (docs)
- 1:03:55 Interacting with the community
- 1:05:31 FreeBSD governance
- 1:06:47 Unlearning Linux
- 1:09:43 Allan's take on macOS
- 1:11:28 The Lego set criticism
- 1:13:03 Weird Plex, but OK
- 1:17:42 Allan's plugs
- 1:19:10 Thanks!
- 1:21:31 Up next
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This episode was published on January 17, 2024.
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