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Re:Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:56AM (#12049319)
If anyone on FreeBSD wants to try this I just added a port under archivers/lzfse

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

Re:Be your own video hoster with Docker and Nginx on Saturday January 09, 2016 @04:14PM (#10872913)
Docker does run of FreeBSD but it heavily relies on ZFS and the 64bit Linux compatibility layer.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker

Re:FreeBSD Jails the hard way on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:54PM (#10867228)
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.
Re:FreeBSD on the raspberry pi on Saturday January 02, 2016 @08:04PM (#10828953)
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...
Re:RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @04:35PM (#10081982)
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
Re:Ask HN: Open-source projects that could use documentation help? on Thursday September 25, 2014 @03:56PM (#8369378)
Come join the FreeBSD documentation team and help improve what is already considered world class documentation

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

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