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freebsd-src
C2012–2026
freebsd / freebsd-src

freebsd-src

The FreeBSD src tree publish-only repository. Experimenting with 'simple' pull requests....

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What it is

The FreeBSD src tree publish-only repository. Experimenting with 'simple' pull requests....

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Where it is used

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My favorite piece of man trivia is from the source of the tunefs BSD man page, which contains: .\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until .\" the…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:53 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year189 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-05-14 23:44:07 UTC to 2026-10-26 20:08:28 UTC.

01020302012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 1 submissions, 15 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 0 submissions, 17 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 1 submissions, 13 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 28 mentions; 2 submissions, 26 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 20 mentions; 1 submissions, 19 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 24 mentions; 0 submissions, 24 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 23 mentions; 0 submissions, 23 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 2 submissions, 8 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16115
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17017
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14113
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC28226
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC20119
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC24024
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC23023
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1028
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505

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FreeBSD Source: This is the top level of the FreeBSD source directory. FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. A large community has continually developed it for more than thirty years. Its advanced networking, security, and storage features have made FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices. For copyright information, please see the file COPYRIGHT in this directory. Additional copyright information also exists for some sources in this tree - please see the specific source directories for more information. The Makefile in this directory supports a number of targets for building components (or all) of the FreeBSD source tree. See build(7), config(8), FreeBSD handbook on building userland, and Handbook for kernels for more information, including setting make(1) variables. For information on the CPU architectures and platforms supported by FreeBSD, see the FreeBSD website's Platforms page. For official FreeBSD bootable images, see the release page. Source Roadmap: Directory Description bin System/user commands. cddl Source code for third-party software under the Common Development and Distribution License. contrib Source code for third-party software. crypto Source code for cryptographic libraries and commands (see crypto/README). etc Template files for /etc. include System include files. kerberos5 Build system for Kerberos 5 (Heimdal). krb5 Build system for Kerberos 5 (MIT). lib System libraries. libexec System commands intended to be executed by other commands or daemons. packages Base system packages. release Makefiles and scripts used for building releases and VM images. rescue Build system for statically linked /rescue commands. sbin System commands. secure Build system for cryptographic libraries and commands (excluding Kerberos). share Shared resources. stand Boot loader sources. sys Kernel sources (see sys/README.md). targets Support for experimental DIRDEPS_BUILD tests Tests which can be run by Kyua. See tests/README for additional information. tools Ancillary utilities and tests (not included in the build). usr.bin User commands. usr.sbin System administration commands. For information on synchronizing your source tree with one or more of the FreeBSD Project's development branches, please see FreeBSD Handbook.
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What Hacker News says

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rsync·Sep 13, 2017
I don't know about lambda functions but I think you can do all of this with rsync.net since we have both s3cmd and git in our environment: ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsync/mscdex.exe ssh user@rsync.net "git clone git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git freebsd" So you could run a cron job that would clone a repo to your rsync.net account and then publish (or backup) that repo to an s3 account. Or whatever.
In Connecting a Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services
0xcde4c3db·Aug 31, 2017
The BSDs and Solaris/Illumos have had DRM for years (where available), but it tends to lag the Linux version significantly because it's not trivial to port the code from Linux. I'm not sure where the compatibility breaks relative to the code given on the page, but most of them have some derivative of the original drm.h header that defines most of the structs and ioctls mentioned (e.g. [1] [2] [3]) [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/dev/drm/d... [2] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/dev/pci/drm/d... [3] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/...
In Intro to Low-Level Graphics on Linux
git-pull·Aug 20, 2017
Updated, thank you. Assigning the results of a command to a variable is not POSIX Make. However, both FreeBSD's Make and GNU Make support it. There's the proposal to add it to POSIX Make: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=337 Another thing I wanted to add to the main post: since POSIX Make doesn't have conditionals, GNU Make and bmake both have different ways of doing them. If you look through FreeBSD's Make files, you'll see that conditionals exist, but they begin with dots: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/c09174d99/share/mk/b... There are going to be some compromises when writing portable scripts where it won't be POSIX, but could still be considered portable.
In A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles
int_19h·Aug 17, 2017
Out of curiosity, I did blame on some files in the FreeBSD source code (https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd). In core utilities like "cat", "kill" and "mv", there are still quite a few lines dating back all the way to the original commits of BSD 4.4 Lite source 24 years ago. Example: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blame/e278a20c2ee54d8fa1a... And if you look at lines that were changed, quite often they are style changes/fixes. Unfortunately, the easy-to-trace history doesn't go back further than that, but I think it's reasonable to assume that some of these lines, at least, could be dated back to before 1987.
In X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster
floatboth·Mar 29, 2017
Yep, exactly. Since zones were inspired by jails, FreeBSD works in pretty much the same way. For device permissions though, we have rules support directly in devfs. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/etc/defaults/... — there's a default ruleset for jails that makes sense (allows log, null, zero, crypto, random, stdin/out/err, fd and tty stuff). By the way, I couldn't find this anywhere on the internet — is there a simple way to just run something in a zone on illumos, without the installer stuff? Like on FreeBSD you can just do this: jail -c path=/my/chroot/path command=/bin/sh and you have a jailed shell. What's the Solaris/illumos equivalent of this?
In Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs

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