Doug Rabson

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Software engineer, FreeBSD hacker, cat person.
githubhttps://github.com/dfr
Show threadDoug RabsonOct 30
@gogo @david_chisnall The process didn't feel rushed - the code review took the best part of six months and before that there was about a year of work on the proposal in our working group. I do accept that there were open questions when the proposal was merged and I would have preferred to address them before rather than after the merge.
Doug RabsonSep 26, 2025
ltningSep 24, 2025
The feeling when some of the Grand Masters and Architects of #UNIX mocks me for being crazy to run modern #NetBSD on decidedly-not-modern hardware while also pointing out how *incredibly* powerful this 386sx/486-class hardware is and what an absurdly huge amount of memory 16MB is compared to what *they* had while, you know, developing UNIX..

#EuroBSDCon #RunBSD #Retrocomputing #Fanboi #StarStruck
Show threadDoug RabsonSep 3, 2025
@TomAoki @david_chisnall @ronnie_bonkers For ocijail, I avoided the build-time fetching by pre-fetching dependencies and using the --experimental_repository_disable_download flag. This is ugly but the only way I know for bazel5. Newer bazel version have better ways of managing dependancies but we don't have anything newer than bazel6 in ports.
Show threadDoug RabsonSep 3, 2025
@malte @dch Podman and Buildah work well on FreeBSD but we don't support rootless containers so you need to run them as root. Podman in particular should be close to a drop-in replacement for Docker.
Doug RabsonSep 28, 2024
Michael W Lucas Sep 27, 2024

Normal authors: release book to the public early in the week, with much fanfare.

Me, late Friday afternoon, from a dark alley: "psst! Hey, you! Yeah, you! #sysadmin! Buddy! You ever wanted to Run Your Own Mail Server?" #ryoms

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms-ebook/

(boosts appreciated!  )

Run Your Own Mail Server Ebook – Tilted Windmill Press

Doug RabsonJan 20, 2024
Show threadGraham PerrinJan 20, 2024

Ed Maste, Senior Director of Technology at The FreeBSD Foundation, discusses the rapidly-evolving interplay between hardware, cybersecurity, open source, and instruction set architectures.

<https://hackernoon.com/the-cybersecurity-battle-has-come-to-hardware>

@emaste @FreeBSDFoundation

Cc @josephholsten

#RISCV #Arm #Morello #CHERI #CheriBSD #hardware #ISA #security #cybersecurity #University #Cambridge #SRI #FreeBSD

The Cybersecurity Battle Has Come to Hardware | HackerNoon

Robust hardware security is often overlooked (compared to software), but can be just as crucial in thwarting cyber attacks.

Show threadDoug RabsonNov 12, 2023
@sc68cal I am in the process of upstreaming the cri-o work but that will take a while. The difficult part of setting up a cluster is setting up all the x509 certificates and config files - I have about 1000 lines of hacky bazel build files for that. I will probably work on porting kubeadm to make that part easier.
Show threadDoug RabsonOct 19, 2023
@sc68cal I just pushed changes to remove the confusing pathname reference and re-writing the README to try to explain whats going on.
Show threadDoug RabsonOct 16, 2023
@sc68cal Orginally, this had a dependency on alpha.pkgbase.live which is sadly no more :(.
Show threadDoug RabsonOct 16, 2023

@sc68cal Sorry for that - its hard-coded to the place where my build infra generates package sets. I *think* I've been able to remove the need for this in the latest version - I'll double check and make sure this gets fixed.

Note: its still dependent on a URL pointing at the package sets and that URL isn't publically accessible. I'm hopeful that we should get pkgbase packages appearing somewhere on download.freebsd.org soon which will help a lot.