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skreuzeron Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE

If anyone on FreeBSD wants to try this I just added a port under archivers/lzfse

http://www.freshports.org/archivers/lzfse/

skreuzeron Be your own video hoster with Docker and Nginx

Docker does run of FreeBSD but it heavily relies on ZFS and the 64bit Linux compatibility layer.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker

While I am sure that Sony has code that they keep proprietary, its worth noting that thy have contributed quite a bit back to FreeBSD (AVX support comes to mind) as well as LLVM.

skreuzeron FreeBSD on the raspberry pi

There has been quite a bit of work done to make cross compiling packages for ARM with poudriere. A fairly good tutorial on how to set that up can be found at https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/building-arm-packages-wit...

skreuzeron RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi

FreeBSD has full support for GPIO and i2c on both the RPi 1 and 2. Simple wrappers around FreeBSD's GPIO ioctl can be found at https://github.com/gonzoua/freebsd-gpio

skreuzeron Ask HN: Open-source projects that could use documentation help?

Come join the FreeBSD documentation team and help improve what is already considered world class documentation

https://www.freebsd.org/docproj/

skreuzeron OpenSSL, OpenSSH and NTP to receive support from Core Infrastructure Initiative

Don't forget OpenCVS

skreuzeron FreeBSD/ARM on Raspberry Pi

If you are interested in creating a FreeBSD image for the Raspberry Pi, take a look at crochet [1] which is a script that pretty much automates the steps outlined in the wiki. In addition, it can also be used to create images for Beaglebone and other ARM (and MIPS I believe) platforms

[1] https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd

skreuzeron OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations

They have set a goal of raising $150,000 for 2014 so if you haven't already, please consider donating

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2104.html

skreuzeron Netflix uses FreeBSD 9.0

They actually have several developers on staff and most of the work they are doing ends up getting committed back to head

skreuzeron PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0

Not sure if the license is the reason they choose FreeBSD, but they have made some contributions back to FreeBSD

A patch for AVX support was submitted from someone at Sony

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2011-March/...