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iXsystems was out in full force at the first FreeBSD Storage Summit which took place February 22nd in Santa Clara, California during the USENIX FAST '16 conference. This was the first FreeBSD DevSummit to be dedicated exclusively to storage-related technologies and...
Michael Dexter attended SeaGL 2015 in Seattle and wrote about his experiences at this grassroots regional event. SeaGL provided a great opportunity to talk about all things BSD with students, professors and users from around the Pacific Northwest and included a few surprises!
This year's EuroBSDcon took place in Stockholm, Sweden and was an amazing mix of sessions, reunions and announcements. I had missed the last two EuroBSDcons and was delighted to see the people I love in a city I love. Many of us hit the ground running by working on...
I just got back from Ohio Linuxfest 2015 and am pleased to report that it was a great conference for FreeBSD outreach! While the attendance was a bit lower than in previous years, we still had a lot of great conversations with Linux users who were interested in trying...
Last week the most well-attended BSDCan conference in history took place in Ottawa, Canada, with nearly 300 BSD programmers and hackers in attendance. Several iXsystems staff were present at the conference and shared their thoughts with us on how the conference went....
What an incredibly busy weekend! The staff and volunteers of Southeast Linuxfest (SELF) were awesome! They were very accommodating, and I haven't felt so welcome at a conference in a long time. The conference was well organized, just as we expected. Jeremy, the...
by David Carlier Nodejs is well known to allow building server applications in full javascript. In this article, we’ll see how to build nodejs from source code on FreeBSD. You will need autoconf tools, GNU make, Python, linprocfs enabled and libexecinfo installed....
This is historic content that may contain outdated information. For the newest information on FreeNAS and TrueNAS, please visit TrueNAS.com or read our latest Blogs. In the “The Journey of a C developer in a FreeBSD World”, I described the changes that occur when you...
This year’s AsiaBSDcon started with the DevSummit on Thursday. We discussed making more utilities output XML/JSON with libxo, the work Warner was doing on making the kernel more modular with auto PNP loading of modules, and some security related bits with the work...
Running the development branch of a *BSD daily might sound scary. Indeed, this is basically the experimentations’ land and this use case seems to apply only to BSD developers – the internal APIs might suddenly change because they need to, some bugs can be fixed, some...
