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FreeBSD 10

Colin Percival | 10.4-RELEASE

Linux/Unix, FreeBSD 10 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Libraries

FreeBSD 10 is an excellent operating system, basically UNIX but modern.

  • November 07, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
FreeBSD performs well, even on older hardware. I have used it to continue using older hardware that would have otherwise been disposed of. It is secure and robust. It has excellent package management (pkg) and a large collection of ported software from Linux. Documentation is excellent (FreeBSD Handbook).
What do you dislike about the product?
Installation can be tricky for first-timers; you will probably need some experience with Linux before trying to use FreeBSD. You need to be comfortable using a command-line terminal most of the time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As FreeBSD is free - the ROI is at least the cost of some commercial Linux or Windows based OS (which can be very expensive). It allowed me to re-use older hardware that would have otherwise been disposed. I used it as a no-cost development environment.

    kgibran

Using this for Redmine on t2.nano.

  • August 09, 2016
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Wanted a micro/small instance which can host a low traffic Redmine instance. The Bitnami AMIs on GNU/Linux don't allow you to select t2 instances. So my next obvious choice was FreeBSD which has a recent version of Redmine in its repositories. I am delighted to see the CPU credits getting saved as the OS itself is not utilizing significant CPU. Next, I can jail Redmine on this and upgrade to the next version of Redmine(when it is released) without affecting the users! Pros: Uses UFS, not ZFS - Ideal for low end servers. Is lean, not too many applications installed using pkg. Suggested Improvements: "su -" works without password, instead use sudo/doas.

    Nostalg.io

Performance is incredible

  • July 03, 2016
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The performance on this AMI is incredible. My new FreeBSD server, which is half the size of my old Ubuntu server, is incredibly fast and efficient. This OS uses a lot less RAM. Everything was already configured, so I just had to run a few lines, install some packages, and voila--a Minecraft server that barely uses 250MB when in use!!

    David

Great job

  • June 29, 2016
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Great job, But ZFS is preferred to instead of UFS. Any plan to enable ZFS filesystem in the future version?

    Chris

How to add IPs

  • June 04, 2016
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1. Add additional private IPs to your instance in EC2 dashboard (optional, one for each Elastic IP)

2. Find out what gateway you're currently using (look at first line under gateway):
> netstat -rn

3. Edit: /etc/rc.conf
> vi /etc/rc.conf

comment-out this line:
ifconfig_DEFAULT="SYNCDHCP"

Add these lines, adjust as necessary (subnet seems to always be /20):
defaultrouter="172.31.48.1"
ifconfig_xn0="inet 172.31.xx.xx/20"
ifconfig_xn0_alias0="inet 172.31.xx.xx/20"

4. Shutdown instance
> shutdown -p now

5. Create new Elastic IP(s) in EC2 dashboard and point them to your private IP(s)

6. Start instance

    animal_lover

works as expected

  • March 20, 2016
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take note to login as ec2-user. Also connecting EBS storage appears to be /dev/x*** or something like that.

    Bway Net

10.2 - Excellent, flawless

  • November 19, 2015
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Very glad to see these images provided. Super quick to get a host up and running. No surprises, out of box config was great.

    KEG

Great job

  • September 02, 2015
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Thanks to your hard work, we can all now enjoy FreeBSD on AWS. FreeBSD with its packet filter simply rocks on Amazon, this was a long time coming. And finally wait is over.

    Simeo Reig

fantastic

  • August 31, 2015
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Thanks to Colin Percival we can have a freebsd instance in amazon, it works like a champ as a regular fisical machine

    MJM

Works great for my use!

  • August 22, 2015
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I needed an extra offsite DNS slave server so this seemed like a great candidate. Was easy to set up and I am setting up another DNS master now.

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