Scale 2010: BSD for Linux Users
0 likes801 views
This presentation provides an overview of BSD operating systems for Linux users. It discusses the main BSD projects (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Dragonfly BSD), how BSD differs from Linux in areas like release engineering and features, and recommends some books for further reading. The presentation aims to give Linux users a frame of reference for BSD, highlight things they may like about it, explain how BSD is developed, and note some unique BSD features they may be missing out on.
Scale 2010: BSD for Linux Users
- 1. BSD For Linux Users Dru Lavigne Chair, BSD Certification Group SCALE 2010
- 2. This presentation will cover... What is this BSD you speak of? (frame of reference) How is BSD different? (will I like it?) Release engineering? (behind the scenes) Any features unique to BSD? (am I missing out on anything cool?) Books (some recommended reading)
- 3. What is this BSD you speak of?
- 4. aka What is this Linux you speak of?
- 5. a kernel?
- 6. a distro?
- 7. If so, which one? Ubuntu?
- 8. Back to BSD.... Since we only have 45 minutes..... We'll start with an overview of the BSD projects Then concentrate on some of the differences Linux users tend to notice on BSD
- 9. Back to BSD.... Differentiated by focus: NetBSD: clean design and portability (56 supported platforms) FreeBSD: production server stability and application support (21,250+ apps) OpenBSD: security and dependable release cycle Dragonfly BSD: filesystem architecture PC-BSD: anyone can install and use BSD
- 11. How is BSD different?
- 13. Gnome vs.
- 14. KDE
- 15. device names
- 16. rc.conf instead of runlevels
- 17. one config file philosophy
- 19. consistent layout (man hier)
- 20. BSD vs GNU switches
- 21. working examples
- 23. Release Engineering Complete operating system, not kernel + distro: one source for security advisories, less likelihood of incompatible libraries Integration of features not limited by copyleft: e.g. drivers are built-in High “bus factor” Consistent separation between operating system and third party and between BSD and GPL'd code
- 24. Release Engineering ● While each BSD project has a separate focus, the communities share ideas/code ● Mentorship process to earn commit bit ● FreeBSD 417 commit bits ● NetBSD 263 commit bits ● OpenBSD 127 commit bits ● plus thousands of contributors for software, docs, translations, bug fixes, etc ● Linux has 1 committer, 196 maintainers
- 25. Release Engineering Principles used by the BSD projects reflect their academic roots: ● well defined process for earning a “commit bit” includes a period of working under a mentor ● code repository from Day 1 and can trace original code back to CSRG days ● no “leader”, instead well defined release engineering, security, and doc teams
- 26. Release Engineering ● development occurs on CURRENT which is frozen in preparation for a RELEASE ● nightly builds (operating system and apps) help ensure that upgrades and installs don't result in library incompatibilities (safe for production) ● documentation considered as important as code
- 27. Features unique to BSD?
- 28. securelevels
- 29. FreeBSD jails
- 30. NetBSD build.sh
- 31. pkgsrc
- 32. PC-BSD PBIs
- 34. pkg_admin audit or pkg_admin audit for pkgsrc systems
- 35. NetBSD veriexec
- 36. binary emulation
- 37. FreeBSD netgraph
- 38. ZFS support
- 40. CARP
- 42. OpenBSM
- 44. ALTQ
- 45. DragonFly HAMMER
- 46. Books
- 47. Books
- 48. Books
- 49. Books
- 50. Books
- 51. Books
- 52. Questions? dru@osbr.ca Stop by the BSD booth to say hi and get a free copy of PC-BSD!