using an operating system that you'venever really used before can seem like alonely experience well you don't have tosuffer alone there's plenty of peopleout there and plenty of friends ofFreeBSD[Music][Music]right this is a list of Hardware vendorsthat can ship either compatible Hardwareor actually Hardware with FreeBSDinstalled it's not an exhaustive listit's only a few that I picked out andit's in no particular orderright the first one we're looking at isbargain Hardware based in Preston UK andthis is one that I've actually shoppedfrom on various occasions via eBay youcan order of course from the websitethemselves they're very reliable there'ssome really good cracking deals thatthey have and it's based in the UK inPrestonwhich is in the north of England and oneof the great things about bargainHardware is apart from theirprofessionalism is the choice ofmachines with FreeBSD actuallyinstallable as an option which to me isfantastic like for instance this HPElite desk 800 you can of course have itwindows but you can select there at thebottom it says 3bsd installation whichis brilliant of course you get UbuntuFedora and Debian but having FreeBSD isan option is fantastic again on this HPElite desk 705 I mean I'm just pickingthese at randomum again it's FreeBSD is an option it'llbe installed for you I don't very muchit's probably going to have a GUIinstall by default it'll be just thebase install but still it's there it'san option to have something with FreeBSDand and I think it also goes the samewith all the servers available so yeahvery good an excellent option a goodcompany give it a looknext on the list is abmx it's based inTustin California and again it's mainlyuh servers and moreoh I don't know maybe businessorientated hardware and there it is it'sbased in Tustin California looks veryniceand so for instance this two U MiniServerjust scroll down to option foroperating systems if I can find it rightat the bottomnearly there keep on going there we goalthough technically you can't installFreeBSD it you can select it for OScompatibilitywhichmay not be exactly shipping it out withFreeBSD but it's pretty close in thesense that they'll make sure that itworks with itand of course if it's got Linux as anoperating system to be installed there'sa good chance it will work with FreeBSDanywhere well I see sometimes you canget that some companies may not offerFreeBSD but if they offer Linux there'sa good chance it'll work so that'salways something to bear in mind so yeahgive them a check out and see what youcan seenext is eraxEd in Hayward and Los Gatos inCalifornia uh excuse the pronunciationandthey also have quite a friendlyrelationship with open source softwareand FreeBSD is listed at the bottom nowwhich is interestingyou can probably tell by the name of thecompany that they deal with a lot ofserver Hardwareand if you want to contact them therethey are in Hayward Los GatosDhaka in Bangladesh which is interestingoh of course you can email themthrough the web if we have a look atthis uh example of what they offerand if you go down to the configurationoptionsapart from the usual PCI HardwareEtc that you can configure if you lookat the installable OS uh scroll down ohthere we gouh he says oh there we go you can haveFreeBSD Legacy or FreeBSDreleaseour production so I just imagine theLegacy will be the last supportedrelease will be 12.1 Etc then less andthen the uhthe production will be the 13.1 nextwe'll have a look from me racks we'regoing to look at the idesk Q3 this ismore of a workstation and again it's thesame choice of FreeBSD can a productionor Legacy again like bargain Hardwarealthough this is newer Hardware it's agreat option and a great opportunity tohave FreeBSD installed and then shippedhereit's really nice indeed and they do awhole range of other large Machinerybusiness and Industrial so yeah veryprofessionally done very nicenext is SW Technology based in DallasTexasthey do storage systems serversEtc like theother companies were mentioned but italso says we have a full lineup ofpre-configured Linux and FreeBSDmachinesso we'll have a look atuh Xeon well we've got workstation theXeon workstation let's have a look therewe golovely xeonsand again like the previous site you geta hardware and software configurationand let's have a scroll down there yetthe default is for Dora 35 but there isan option for FreeBSD installation againbrilliant you can have servers orworkstations with FreeBSD installedand speaking of computers we have thinkpenguin pasting Keen New Hampshirenow this is a dedicated as far as I knowit's a dedicated company which onlysells Linux machines or Linux compatiblemachines as you would expect really alot of Hardware which isto them which would be provencompatible with Linux and again it'sprobably going to be compatible with3bsd although there are some caveats andthere's a long list of supported Linuxdistros if this is something you mightbe interested in uh it's quite a lot ofarch and Manjarobut yeah I don't know whether this Imean I don't really keep up with thelatest thing but if say for instancethis is the latest technology and itruns lurks yeah you might have a look ofit on free PSTand I think anyway I think even though Idon't use Linux I think just having a anexpanding range of companies that sellLinux based machines is a good thinganywhereyeah bothos's will benefit from this of courseyou've got peripherals that are mostlikely to be compatible with Linux andFreeBSD have a look and uh give them acall if you have any questionsnext we've got Netgear famously uhrenowned for thenetworking gear based in Austin in TexasI don't think really many people need tobe introduced to Netgear if you're inthe I.T sectorthey do some fantastic routersand switches Etc network cards but whyI've included them on here is you canbuy the netgatesystems with PF sense already installedand if you already know that pfSense isbased upon FreeBSDso in a sense you're getting a FreeBSDsystem pre-configuredthe firewall networking Etcand yeah I mean you could of course setup a just a generic box and put FreeBSDin a configure it manually of course youcan but this comes pre-configuredalready set up with a fantastic GUI viayour browserand they have aa brilliant reputationfor knowing what they're talking aboutand they have good support as welland if you're really in the market forGeneral networkingI think Netgear supplies everything youcould possibly need so they've got somerack mounted devices some under thetable or on the table devicesyeah it's pretty cool[Music]next we're looking at Services now theservices on offer here could be webhosting they could be after salessupport or just general inquiries orjobs to fix things and again in noparticular orderand the first one we're going to have alook at is Sam Sheridan of Sheridancomputers based in Manchester in Englandand yeah I mean he's a smart guy and hehas over 20 odd years of experience innetworking and fixing and you name ityou probably can do it for you and whyhe is listed in the friends of FreeBSDis because he has produced quite a fewvideos and that's how I came first toknow about him about FreeBSDon YouTube and that's like I'minterested in looking at his website andI became more impressed about what theyhad to offer and the videos that he'smade a there's a lot of subjects covereduh a lot of them are up in sales based alot of Security baseduh there's some himself hello Samandthe great thing is he's done quite a fewFreeBSD ones starting here a lot of theasterisk videos how to install thattelephony softwareand some Mullerah so look at thatinbound and outbound calls you know abit ofIP PBX yeah so yeah anyway yeah he'sdone quite a few videos on FreeBSD ifyou go to his uh YouTube web page checkthem out and send uh I send all off fromRob and lucky for me pleasenext is FreeBSD mall now established in1991 in Brentwood California now theseare someone that I've uh bought someitems from beforeandI I find it quite amazing that a companycansell FreeBSD related gear when reallyit's something which you don't seeanyone else really doing the coursesthere's one or two other ones wherepeople can or can order bespark itemsbut here is a company that sells booksand t-shirtsuh DVD ROMs if you uh if you want thecollect the set some people doand well they also offer supporttechnical support programs uh levels oneto threeor level zero to threeemail phone gold Platinum 24 7 anincident and of course if you've gotbusiness with uh world of previous daymachines or you're in that particularmarket then you know it's somethingwhich is very useful and they'reactually backed by IX systems IX systemsknow what they're talking about when itcomes to FreeBSD so you've got thatbehind it which is pretty coolnext is FreeBSD Brazil based in BeloHorizonte Brazil hopefully I pronouncedthat properly the website is in Spanishum Portuguese I don't know which one itis and yeah I could uh I can't reallytranslate it for you but you get the thegist of it there's a support there'ssome lessons that you can actually havewith FreeBSDthere's the contact address it's alwaysinteresting to see FreeBSD supported inother countries other thanEnglish-speaking countries anything youjust proves to show just how Universalor International free BSD is so ifyou're in that part of the world thengive FreeBSD Brazil a callnext we're looking at A-Team systems andthey have Linux support and FreeBSDsupport and plenty of other support fordifferent things like SQL databases theyhave resources for you to use and checkupon if you've got any questionsthey have flexible support plans andthey've also got cloud and dedicated itteams which is pretty nice actuallyif you're in the market for thatthey have an open source philosophy theyvery muchlike open sourceand you can contact them thereyou have a live chat which is very niceand the best in Las VegasNevadaso yeah they need FreeBSD supportimmediately you can call them on thatnumber 24 7 support for FreeBSD in itsbeehive hypervisor or ZFS that is prettysweet and any company that offerssupport for beehive and ZFS and FreeBSDin general is something that we shouldall be supporting ourselves so if you'rein for that give them a callnext it needs no introduction if you'rein the FreeBSD community and that'sClara Inc with Sabina and Alan asestablished in 2018 based in OntarioCanada and now these really arededicated 3bsd support companythey also do ZFSand a whole host of otherpreviously relatedservicesthey do live webinarsarticlesand yeah I mean the mere Factor has gotSabina and alaninhappens you know two of the biggestbrains that you could uh havein the FreeBSD worldyou know any questions that you've everabout FreeBSD or any support that youwant my goodness me that these arebetter answer them just like thatASAP heads apartbut you know a lot of them are thesedays so you could do worse in givingthem a looknext we've got transitive Technologiesand again it's another company thatprovides FreeBSD support and any companythat does that is worth listing reallyis worth supportingthey do free BSD consultancywhich is always welcomeand the support really is quitecomprehensive by the looks of thatand there's a generaluh thing of what they do established in2010let's have a look at the aboutI love all the fact that these companiesEmbrace open source softwareyou know again it could be Linux ofcourse but FreeBSD and just open sourcesoftware in generalI think it's a real shift that uh you'regetting companies you're getting like ane-cost systeman entire industry built around thatwhich I think is fantasticbecause I still remember the days we'rein open source software and Linux andwe're all kind of like seen as a fringeor a hobbyum OS which they're no longer out ofcourseso yeah and you get companies liketransitiveoffering services and support on aprofessional levelyeah pretty good so that's transitiveTechnologiesnext something slightly different that'sUnix parting says are you Stokes need aFreeBSD professional having an emergencywith your assist admin or FreeBSDconsultant is AWOL we can provide 24 7access to experienced technicians whocan help you solve problems with FreeBSDagain it's paid supportand you can contact them that way andthey'll send you a quote based upon yourproblem they offer Linux apart andSolaris and open BSD and I think theycan also help you importing softwarefrom one platform to anotherand established in 2001uh interestingly partying theportability of Unix software againyou may be a developer who's developedperhaps on Linux or on freebst and youwant to part it over to the otherplatforms these could do it for you it'san unusual service if that's that's whatthey're offering and something which younever know if you're a developer anywayyou might need or you may not have thetime to I'll never do it for you for areasonable ratenext we have Manchester PCum burst in surprisingly Manchesterand FreeBSD support as well so it'snumber one for FreeBSD support based inManchester UKand that's the second one with our bestin Manchester must be something aboutManchester that uhis very much high techand we FreeBSD troubleshoot Etcthere's some reviewslooks like it does repair as well andthere's quite a fewplaces there we go a lot Manchesterdoes repair business uhsupport networkingand here's a little about bio I did iton the Commodore 64. all right very goodthat's a good place to start so yeahagain it's one of these things that ifyou need that and invest in the UKthengo to this website have a look and seewhat's on offered for younext iswell it's Amazon and it's AWSand these are like virtual machines I'vereally not looked into this it'ssomething which I really don't needumbut the fact that they're supportingfreebst is coolhere it's freebsd12 on arm and you canget estimated cost of using the virtualmachine based on FreeBSDAmazon machine imagesand AWS support is oh look flawlesslyand seamlessly with AWS and there's alist of all the other ones that they dowith this previously 12 13. I'm 13.uhoh it's 13.1 that's that's goodso that's the up-to-date production onewe've got arm 13yepand you knowfor what if you do need this if you needthe the support that Amazon can give youthen the the scalability that they'vegotthey're not because I don't need to tellyou to look there I think you've alreadyknow that but to know that they haveFreeBSD is uh is goodso even Amazon braces previously okaythat's coolnext we haveifdn ahaji I've done what that standsfor and it's based in Edinburgh Scotlandand it does offer freebhd support Ithink in general this uh this companyoffers a really largesupport for open source softwareagain not just FreeBSD but for Linux aswellAndy has very much an open sourceum mentalityand it supports a lot of jazz it's asecure web hostwe have eight camera live productionsetupthat's pretty coolso I think really and also sound as wellI think that uhthese will be very handy to uhhandle any Live Eventsvideo on audio hosting so yeah and basedin Edinburgh so they probably do the uhthe annual hogmanyvery good so if you're in Edinburgh ifyou're in Scotlandand need some FreeBSD support I thinkI think you should give these a calland it says i f d n r g our list is ourpreviously commercial internet serviceprovidernow that's pretty coolsays we have tried and tested variousLinux distributions such as red hatslackware Debian and Ubuntu Etc that arefinally happily settled onFreeBSD and there's a little explanationof why they prefer Freebase I like theseguys[Music]in this section the community can beanything from a YouTube channel to adedicated blog or a webpage there's nota great deal of dedicated FreeBSD webpages out there and video channels buthere are some in our particular orderand first of course we have to lead withMaiden now this fella he isand I would say the one of the utmostauthorities in how to configure FreeBSDfor your desktop because his blog is sowell known for that but he hasyears of doing this he's been doing thisa long timeand he is someone which I've consultedon numerous occasions I always referpeople to his blog and he producesvaluable news by the way which is aweekly uh news compendium of all thethings related to just not just FreeBSDbut open BSD net BST Linux Etc and it'san essential reading and if you're onTwitter then you subscribe to him thenyou'll get notification when it releasesit and it's something that you reallyshouldn't Miss it's really really goodand like I said that whenever anyone'sgot any problems or uh questions I can'tanswer which is probably uhmore often than not I'll refer them tohis blog because he is also thedeveloper maintainer of a beat Mand he says he started BDM in2012 and developed support today in themeantime the FreeBSD project uh createdits own calledbectl aims to implant ba B dams in the Clanguage I'm not even pronouncing itright I want someone's pointed aboutthat they've never heard anyone exum pronounce b Dem and Bechtel in theway that I do but it's the way that I doit and but anyway it's boot environmentuh tools and I find his to be invaluablehe also does Auto amount which again hasserved a lot of uh people a lot ofHustleand LS BLK or LS block which uh whichaims to implement a FreeBSD version ofuh the Linux tool yeah so to meabsolutely essential for Maiden his bloghis toolsthis uh this guy is uh he's a one-manArmy ofuh FreeBSD advocacy I think you candonate and one thing I do I reallyappreciate uh when you look at hiswebsite if you do donate to him he'lllist exactly everything that he's boughtor done withthe contributionsso he does like he's not just taking themoney and saving up for a holidayumhe's actually reinvesting it intohis site and the services that he canoffer and for his own learning onFreeBSD so that's to be that's to beapplaud and everybody everlist what they do with the donations andhe's to be applauded for thatso he has a very comprehensive FreeBSDdesktop guide I'm in this step-by-steppicturesexplanationsum he's constantly updating it it's likea work in progresshe does some really really reallydetailed workand I thinkfar more detail than I could ever put ina videoandI mean I'm actually lyrical about hissite and what he does but it really isthat good and I would love to see andit's probably never gonna happen but I'dlove to see him and his blog reallyalmost like an addition to the FreeBSDhandbookor included in the FreeBSD handbook orindeed listed as a second free VSThandbook it's something which uhI think he's only fairit's very goodso yeahthose were Maiden over Madden I thinkthey're made and you know all theseyears I still don't know how pronounceit for Maidenagain he's very active on Twitter ifyou've got any questions or you justdrop me a message and he'll get back toyou and he'll actually answer itnext we've got Sheridan computersYouTube channel I know I've alreadycovered Sam in the services part but Ireally can't not include him in thecommunity part for his YouTube channelbecausehe does a lot uh on his YouTube channelit's not all FreeBSD related to someRaspberry Pi stuff Synology pie hole Etcuh interviews with Tom Lawrence atLawrence systemsbut he has done and he keeps sayingyou're going to do some more so I'llhave to pull him up on that he said he'sgoing to do some more FreeBSD videos Imeanhe's very busy running his company ofcourse but you know when everybody getssome spare time if he's not asleep ordoing whatever he wants to do in hisspare timegame in front of the camera and makesome more videosFreeBSD willbe something that he always wants to tryso I'll look at the playlist yeahthere's the freebie steel he's done 13videos on FreeBSDanda lot of it of course is it related touh telephonynot all of ituh it's a unify Zoom because ubiquityunify controller installationso yeahit's very goodand it's something which you know Iadmire him for doing that he's at 20years of running a company in the I.Tsector and getting a YouTube channelgoing so that it you know takes a lot ofdedicationso next we've got Gary at Gary H TechnowI've got the non-gary in the last fewum well I don't know last year or somaybe more I don't know time fliesand he does a lot of freebst videos hedoes occasionally strain to the otherside and do uhnon-free BSD videos how Dairy but hedoes but he does a lot of freebst videosandhe has a different style to mine andthat's perfectly fineum we can't all do the same thingand his style is it's a little bit moretechnical than minebecause he uh he has more experience inthatuh maintain the field in FreeBSD veryknowledgeable he uh produces videoswhenever he can of course we all havebusy lives to lead so when you canyourself go over to Gary's page have alook to see what he's got and uh tellhim Robin Oogie send you next we've gotMarco tastic now his style or rather hischannel is very much a programmingoriented ChannelI do someFreeBSDrelated videosit's quite a few actually isn't quite afew therevery technical andumif you are more into the technical sideof FreeBSD in programming Etcthen Marco's YouTube channel is propsfor youthere is some open BSD so I will forgivehim on that but in general it'sfreebiously related or programmingrelated and again it serves a certainnicheand if that's what your particular itchis and then uh Michael's channel willgive you the scratchnext on the list is steam BSD now thisis done by an individual I'm not quitesure of his name so please forgive meand he's been doing this for a long timenow he's he wants to produce and he hasproduced a a variant on FreeBSD aparticular spin on previous day which isgame related so he's using steam and allthe variousumother ways that you can getgaming on FreeBSD beyond the the freeversions of the games there's evenvideos of him doing with uh valveprotons so he's obviously doingsomething right I think it it'ssomething that we perhaps shouldencourage him and give him more supportbecause reallyif he can crack this then it's it'sgoing to be a fantastic thing and that'sall distro based upon FreeBSD that canplay games out of the box that will beexcellentnext we've got Euro BSD con and againthis is a compilation of videos takenfrom the Euro BSD conferenceum I can't really make the comment Iwould love to go to the conferencesactually some of them FreeBSDconferences sound like fun but a lot ofthem either take place abroadum in Americamiddle of Europe so really if you can'tmake these and that's fine you know wecan't all suddenly jet off somewhere andattend a conference now this will giveyou the next best thing I've a filmedlive you know streamed live or filmedlive or a video of the highlights and soreally they've got one from2022 all the way down to 2007 2007interesting and in the France BulgarianNorway Denmark uh virtual wander in theuhthe uh the the epidemic that we hadwhich I'm not going to say and yes it'sall very good not all FreeBSDthey do cover other operating systems intheopen source Realmright yes well then that's it it's notan exhaustive list there are plenty ofsites of No Doubt not included that Ishould have done if you've got any andthe dedicated to FreeBSD orpredominantly FreeBSD uh we're nottalking about the sites occasionallymight mention FreeBSD or the YouTubechannel that might occasionally review aFreeBSD when it comes out but if youknow of any dedicated sites anycompanies that cater for FreeBSD eitherexclusively or casualum in a major way or any hardwarevendorsEtcthen I would absolutely love to know whothey are and where they their best thenif I get enough together I'll putanother video upum I kind of like uh addendum reallyof people businesses and places that arefriendly to FreeBSDuh I'll put them in a future video andI'll give credit to who mentioned themso we can get the message out that thethere's a wide FreeBSDsupport network a network of FreeBSDfriendly companies and sitesbecause only doing that together can weactually push forward you know no oneshould be an individual using FreeBSDwith no support or nowhere to turnanywherethanks for watching it's a ratherlengthy videoand I'll catch you next timejust as a special ending to this video Iwould like to mentionand point out theFreeBSD Foundation home page now I'vecovered this in a previous video andquite rightly so because without theFreeBSD Foundation many of the thingsthat we love about FreeBSD just wouldn'tbe there they sponsored a lot ofprojectsand here I just some of the ongoing onessuch as FreeBSD as a tier one Cloud initplatform and open stack on FreeBSD theseare fantasticprojects in themselves and sponsored bythe FreeBSD Foundationanother one Wi-Fi update for the 802.11AC now that's one of the areas whereFreeBSD perhaps lacks other os'sbut it's no it's not an easy taskand it's getting done and development ofthe red Zed expansion feature of ZFS theones that have been complete is wireguard review update and integrationlldb improvementsDRM graphics driver updates Targetlinuxiliator compatibility improvementsand the list goes on and on and on thatthey've sponsored and then integratedinto the FreeBSD OS itself fantasticstuffso really this special mention at theend really is to highlight that withoutthe FreeBSD Foundation many of thebusinesses user groupscompanies offering Services many ofthose things wouldn't be there becausethere really wouldn't be a FreeBSD OSitself well not in the current formanywherethis is the official FreeBSD YouTubechannel links to the previously projectwebpage andfree BST Foundationand it's got a fair goodif that's a real word a fair goodselection of videos on a lot of topicsas you would expect of course there's alot ofvendor Summit presentation FreeBSDFridays that's where they're all out ifyou want to watch themum some really really good talks goingon there some very knowledgeable peoplethe installer Festumby roller Angel is particularly good ifyou want a step-by-steplive I suppose live uh real time installand then you know give him a watch he'sreally really goodand there's various talks there's Debagain uh FreeBSD office hoursis that really two years ago good griefbut yes he's uh you're wanting many manytalks that she does there's apple andJude again he gets everywhereso yes there's a lot of videos a lot ofa lot of knowledgeable uh people thereand even though the one is it's fourmonths ago since the latest one they doupdate sporadicallylike they've ever done a batch thereeachfour months agoand previous to that it was seven monthsso you might wait a little while thenlike a boss uh that's late you'll gettwo or three at the same timeand there's the live tab if you want tolook at the presentationsvery goodso that's the free BFD project officialYouTube channeland then we're going to look at thefreebst foundation Channel now there'snot as much hereuh it's smaller in scalp and I thinkreally what they've done isthey've kind of like concentrated onputting things in this oneum which is fineoh you won't want no point ofreplication across both channelsbut also the last video was four monthsago so again like the FreeBSD channelit's uhyou get something like a couple of yearsback and then nothing and then boom boomboom four months ago but you know whenthe dude passedand that's why and I'm just going to doit now just uh the notification Bellwhich you really should doso next time the post any content youget notified but the FreeBSD Foundationchannel is like installing a port onFreeBSD an introduction to the freebstoperating system installing a desktopenvironment so there's good solidinformation therethere's not much but there's good solidinformation thereand I think they mirror the actual uhwritten down blog entries and how-toguides on the main site so that theirvideo equivalents reallyit's a very good oh Minecraft very goodso yes uh these are the two officialYouTube channels andthey complement the websites themselvesso like I say if you've got any helpthat you needor any advice that you seek by all meanscheck my channel out and Gary's andSam's Sam sheridansumbut also check out the official onesbecause there's a good chance that whatyou need to know is thereanywhere no oh yeah before I go notforgetting the Twitter channels ifyou're on Twitter seek outuh the official support and the usergroups from there on Discord and uhtelegram as well that's a differentissue I might cover that in anothervideoso there's a lot of support out therejust okay you know so you can't youcan't possibly do justiceto all everything that's out there andavailable you know I can only unless youwant a two-hour video I can't coverevery single thing so there's alwaysgoing to be something I'm going to missout there's somebody I'm I'm perhaps notgoing to mention that I should mentionand I don't want anybody getting kind ofupset because I really wouldn't want todo thatuh if you let me know in thein the message boxes message box if youlet me know in the uhin the comment section that's it thenI'll put them up in a future video foreverybody that I've forgottenanyway this is just an extra bit thanksfor watching and I'll catch you nexttimethis and every other video on my channelhas been made using FreeBSD and opensource softwareforeign