Highlights from the FreeBSD Developer Summit

[Posted June 27, 2024 by jzb]

The FreeBSD Foundation has published a set of reports from the May 2024 FreeBSD Developer Summit held in Ottawa, Canada. The topics include FreeBSD Core Team updates, FreeBSD 15 release planning, Integration with Rust, and OCI containers on FreeBSD:

Doug Rabson began by providing an overview of the current state of FreeBSD support for OCI containers, noting that while FreeBSD has long supported containers through its jail and vnet features, the ecosystem around OCI containers requires further development. "FreeBSD has been able to do containers for a long time, but we need to align better with OCI standards to make our containers more compatible and easier to use," Rabson remarked.

OCI

Posted Jun 28, 2024 9:10 UTC (Fri) by cen (subscriber, #170575) [Link]

OCI on FreeBSD would be huge

freebsd Linux compatibility?

Posted Jun 28, 2024 9:57 UTC (Fri) by meyert (subscriber, #32097) [Link] (2 responses)

Hi,

Is there an Linux compatibility layer on freebsd? Would it be possible to run Linux oci images directly under a freebsd kernel?

freebsd Linux compatibility?

Posted Jun 28, 2024 11:32 UTC (Fri) by auc (subscriber, #45914) [Link]

See https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/

freebsd Linux compatibility?

Posted Jun 29, 2024 13:13 UTC (Sat) by rbranco (subscriber, #129813) [Link]

I can run Linux containers with podman on FreeBSD. As root, obviously.