August 26th, 2023
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Michael's 2008 BSD Talk interview with Hans Petter Selasky who passed away this summer in a traffic accident in Norway
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July 6th, 2020
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tmux can provide console logging and command injection to bhyve virtual machines
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March 2020 Update
Introducing up.bsd.lv, a proof-of-concept of binary update service for FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT and 12-STABLE to facilitate the exhaustive testing of FreeBSD and the bhyve hypervisor and OpenZFS 2.0 specifically. Updates are based on the SVN revisions of official FreeBSD Release Engineering weekly snapshots.
December 2019 Update
Announcing the bhyve VirtFS/9p Completion Project to provide groundwork for full WSL2-like support in FreeBSD and illumos.
March 2019 Updates
February 2019 Updates
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December 19th, 2018
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Fifteen years in, I am seeking my first funding which I will use for critical testing of OpenZFS, ARM and hypervisors
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April 10th, 2017
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Remember to understand the problem before you fix the problem
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June 29th, 2016
Version 1.4
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Elegantly-simple multibooting and OS upgrades with ZFS Boot Environments and bhyve
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December 10th, 2014, Updated December 15th, 2018
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
There is a 99% chance you benefit from these organizations
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October 27th, 2014
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Only 10 or so more variables to consider...
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September 13th, 2014
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© Michael Dexter
The BSD Desktop: Better late than never
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April 5th, 2013
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© Michael Dexter
Lessons from a year in the trenches with BSD's killer app
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February 26th, 2013
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© Michael Dexter
One of the most collectable BSD books receives a ten-year update
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January 31st, 2013
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
The best Gnome 3 experience on BSD can be found where you'd least expect it
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January 25th, 2013
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Rest assured, presenting is just another learned skill
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November 30th, 2012
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
The countdown to importing bhyve into FreeBSD has begun
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October 29th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
SMP and 64-bit addressing are passing fads, right?
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September 29th, 2012
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
PC-BSD is rapidly becoming a better FreeBSD than FreeBSD
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August 27th, 2012
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
This swing of the IT pendulum is poised to slice off the hand that feeds it
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July 14th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Lessons from a diverse group of people who develop communities rather than code
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July 11th, 2012
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© Michael Dexter
Consider for a moment that ZFS is a cross-platform RAID filesystem
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June 27th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
The bigger they are, the harder they fall and maximum size can bring maximum failure
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May 30th, 2012
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© Michael Dexter
OSCON 2011 in 1,077,000 words (1,000 words/picture...)
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April 25th, 2012
You can find a ready-to-run bhyve package and guest images at bhyve.org!
Bandwidth courtesy of NYC*BUG, the New York City *BSD User Group
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March 14th, 2012
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
The BSDCons are the lifeblood of the BSDs
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March 12th, 2012
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© Marshall Kirk McKusick and Jeff Roberson, reproduced with the permission of Mr. McKusick.
The modern UFS filesystem has many obvious and not-so-obvious advantages
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February 23rd, 2012
Version 1.1
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Inelegant hardware has long been the bane of elegant software but some hardware offenses are inexcusable
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March 13th, 2012
Version 1.1
© Michael Dexter
OSCON 2012 is coming and Unix will be everywhere, yet invisible
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December 26th, 2011
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Just under 400 photos from EuroBSDCon 2011
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March 29th, 2012
Version 3.0
© Michael Dexter
FreeBSD 9.0 bhyve setup in a single script
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October 31st, 2011
Version 1.2
© Michael Dexter
From historic events to a cure for insomnia, the last 12 months have been great for BSD
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October 25th, 2011
Version 1.2
© Michael Dexter
Ten years of collective practice make for an outstanding conference
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October 8th, 2011
Version 1.0
© Peter N. M. Hansteen with commentary by Henning Brauer and Michael Dexter
Mac OS X now has a newer PF than FreeBSD, what else is there to see?
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October 8th, 2011
Version 1.0
© Michael Dexter
Welcome to Call For Testing, an online technical journal dedicated to the Berkley Unix. Call For Testing picks up where other BSD-related publications leave off by providing:
- Authoritative BSD technical information that aims to document, analyze and inspire
- In-depth BSD conference reporting for those unable to attend
- Unbiased analysis of BSD business and community management issues
- Community outreach and coordination involving developer hardware acquisition, event organization and formal advocacy
- Actual calls for testing of new code to help guarantee that the BSD's remain "The greatest software ever written." (Information Week, August 2006)
- Ultimately, a platform for educating and orienting the next generation of BSD developers
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