• Community
• Resources

It is a collection of links to articles, videos, tutorials and any other valuable content generated by the FreeBSD community about the system. The aim is to improve discoverability of those resources.

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Conferences

• BSDCan

• EuroBSDcon

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Conference talks & lecture recordings

• 2018

  • BSDCan 2018 playlist (youtube.com)

• 2017

  • EuroBSDcon 2017 playlist (youtube.com)

  • BSDCan 2017 playlist (youtube.com)

  • FLOSSUK:

    • What is FreeBSD by Gavin Atkinson (youtube.com)

• 2016

  • BSDCan 2016 playlist (youtube.com)

  • Microsoft Research:

    • Systems, Science and FreeBSD (youtube.com) by GeorgeNevilleNeil

• 2014

  • EuroBSDcon 2014 playlist (youtube.com)

• 2013

  • BSDCon 2013 playlist (youtube.com)

• 2012

  • EuroBSDcon 2012 (youtube.com)

• bsdconferences channel on YouTube

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Papers

• FreeBSD Presentations and Papers Archive (papers.freebsd.org)

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Podcasts

• BSD Now: A Weekly BSD Podcast - News, Interviews and Tutorials (www.bsdnow.tv)

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Office Hours

• OfficeHours: video sessions offered roughly once every other week.

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FreeBSD Fridays

• FreeBSD Fridays: one hour live sessions every other Friday, designed to get you started with FreeBSD

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Software

Dotfiles

• https://github.com/myfreeweb/dotfiles

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Tutorials

• Distributed Object Storage with Minio on FreeBSD (vermaden.wordpress.com, 2018.04.16)

• FreeBSD 10: Mounting USB Drive with ext4 Filesystem (blog.ataboydesign.com, 2014.04.23)

Desktop

• FreeBSDDesktop (unrelenting.technology, 2017.11.4) (focuses on Wayland)

• A FreeBSD 11 Desktop How-to (cooltrainer.org, 2017.03.23)

• FreeBSD Desktop series

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 1: Simplified Boot

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 2: Install FreeBSD 11

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 2.1 - Install FreeBSD 12

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 3: X11 Window System

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 4: Key Components: Window Manager

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 5: Key Components: Status Bar

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 6: Key Components: Task Bar

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 7: Key Components: Wallpaper Handling

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 8: Key Components: Application Launcher

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 9: Key Components: Keyboard/Mouse Shortcuts

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 10: Key Components: Locking Solution

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 11: Key Components: Blue Light Spectrum Suppress

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 12: Configuration: Openbox

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 13: Configuration: Dzen2

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 14: Configuration: Tint2

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 15: Configuration: Fonts & Frameworks

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 16: Configuration: Pause Any Application

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 17: Configuration: Automount Removable Media

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 18: Configuration: Global Dashboard

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 19: Configuration: Plank - Skippy-XD

  • FreeBSD Desktop Part 20: Configuration: Unlock Your Laptop with Phone

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Video tutorials

CBSD/Reggae

• CBSD/Reggae Init (youtube.com)

• CBSD/Reggae DevOps (youtube.com)

Handbook+

A detailed overview and addition to the FreeBSD handbook showing real live systems working with different configurations.

• Handbook

• PaulWebster

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Other

Websites

Alternative ports trees

• https://github.com/myfreeweb/freebsd-ports-dank

Blogs

• Adrian Chadd's Ramblings (adrianchadd.blogspot.nl)

• https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/

• https://bwidawsk.net/blog/

• Emmanuel Vadot's Journal (www.bidouilliste.com)

• Farhan's Professional and Personal Technical Blog (farhan.codes)

• GeekLAN - What do you want to crash today? (www.geeklan.co.uk)

• oshogbo//vx (oshogbo.vexillium.org)

• Savagedlight's Road (savagedlight.me)

YouTube channels

• iBSD

• kev

• viBSD (Send howto requests to 'daemon' on Libera.Chat)

Other

• People who run BSD (www.bsdjobs.com)

Topics

AWS

• FreeBSD 11 on AWS EC2, with CloudWatch Logs and EC2 Metrics (GitHub Gist)

HardenedBSD

• Introduction to HardenedBSD World (vermaden.wordpress.com, 2018.04.06)

Various notes

• https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/tree/master/freebsd

• https://github.com/0mp/n0tes/blob/master/freebsd.md

• FreeBSD commands lines cheatsheet

• FreeBSD Development: Books, Papers, Slides

• Various tips on how to troubleshoot networking, includes BSD-specific tips

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