DigitalOcean: FreeBSD

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FreeBSD Is Now Available On DigitalOcean!

Support for FreeBSD has been one of the most common requests from our customers, and we’re thrilled to be delivering it you today.

FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system that is the platform of choice for some developers because of the security and stability that it offers. Additionally, FreeBSD offers an easy way to customize software installation by using its unique Ports Collection to build software from source.

6PM: Guests arrive, meet your fellow community member, enjoy food and beer

6:30PM: Neal Shrader, @icosahedral

The process and challenges of getting FreeBSD running on DigitalOcean.

7:00PM: George Neville-Neil, @gvnn3

FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro

George Neville-Neil works on networking and operating system code forfun and profit. He also teaches various courses on subjects relatedto computer programming. His professional areas of interest includecode spelunking, operating systems, networking, time and security. Heis the co-author with Marshall Kirk McKusick and Robert Watson of TheDesign and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System and is thecolumnist behind ACM Queue's "Kode Vicious."

7:30PM: Stick around, make some friends and have a bite

If you’d like to try FreeBSD on DigitalOcean, our Community team has created some great tutorials to help you get started.

A Comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users (http://emailcampaigns.cmail1.com/t/i-l-suhpd-eeijkri-t/)

How To Get Started with FreeBSD 10.1 (http://emailcampaigns.cmail1.com/t/i-l-suhpd-eeijkri-i/)

How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD10.1 (http://emailcampaigns.cmail1.com/t/i-l-suhpd-eeijkri-d/)

We’ve also written a blog post (http://emailcampaigns.cmail1.com/t/i-l-suhpd-eeijkri-h/) that provides a more detailed description of our FreeBSD implementation. Check it out!