FreeBSD, The Other Unix-Like Operating System and Why You Should Get Involved!

Deb Goodkin
Executive Director - FreeBSD Foundation

FreeBSD is one of the oldest, largest, and most successful open source projects, with a long history of innovation. Deb will take you through its long history and highlight some of the features that set FreeBSD apart from other operating systems

FreeBSD Virtualization Options

Michael Dexter
Editor - Call For Testing

FreeBSD invented the modern Unix container with jail(8) in the year 2000 and today operates as an EC2 and Hyper-V guest, Xen Dom0 and DomU and now includes bhyve, the native FreeBSD Hypervisor. Michael wrote his first jail(8) management system in 2005 and has since operated NetBSD/Xen in production and was the first community user of bhyve, the FreeBSD hypervisor introduced with FreeBSD 10.0. bhyve is a modern, emulation-free hypervisor that relies on the Extended Page Table feature found in modern Intel and AMD CPUs. bhyve provides bare-metal performance for Unix virtual machines.