60: Don't Buy a Router

This week on the show we're joined by Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the creator of both FreeNAS and the BSD Router Project! We'll be discussing what the BSD Router Project is, what it's for and where it's going. All this week's headlines and answers to viewer-submitted questions, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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BSD Devroom CFP

This year's FOSDEM conference (Belgium, Jan 31st - Feb 1st) is having a dedicated BSD devroom
They've issued a call for papers on anything BSD-related, and we always love more presentations
If you're in the Belgium area or plan on going, submit a talk about something cool you're doing
There's also a mailing list and some more information in the original post ***

Bhyve SVM code merge

The bhyve_svm code has been in the "projects" tree of FreeBSD, but is now ready for -CURRENT
This changeset will finally allow bhyve to run on AMD CPUs, where it was previously limited to Intel only
All the supported operating systems and utilities should work on both now
One thing to note: bhyve doesn't support PCI passthrough on AMD just yet
There may still be some issues though ***

NetBSD at Open Source Conference Tokyo

The Japanese NetBSD users group held a booth at another recent open source conference
As always, they were running NetBSD on everything you can imagine
One of the users reports back to the mailing list on their experience, providing lots of pictures and links
Here's an interesting screenshot of NetBSD running various other BSDs in Xen ***

More BSD switchers every day

A decade-long Linux user is considering making the switch, and asks Reddit about the BSD community
Tired of the pointless bickering he sees in his current community, he asks if the same problems exist over here and what he should expect
So far, he's found that BSD people seem to act more level-headed about things, and are much more practical, whereas some FSF/GNU/GPL people make open source a religion
There's also another semi-related thread about another Linux user wanting to switch to BSD because of systemd and GNU people
There are some extremely well written and thought-out comments in the replies (in both threads), be sure to give them all a read
Maybe the OPs should've just watched this show ***

Interview - Olivier Cochard-Labbé - olivier@cochard.me / @ocochardlabbe

The BSD Router Project

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