About FreshBSD v3

FreshBSD is an automated blog and search engine cataloguing the development of major BSD-associated software, pulling data directly from their revision control systems.

FreshBSD is developed and hosted by Thomas Hurst.

Technology

FreshBSD currently lives on a server sitting in my cupboard - a 24GiB quad-core Xeon W3520, running FreeBSD 8-STABLE/amd64, 3.6TB of ZFS RAID-10 storage with 80GB SSD-backed L2ARC. It's proxied through a Portfast KVM VPS running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE/amd64.

The site and backend importers are written in Ruby 1.9, using the Padrino web framework, and the Lucene -based Java search engine and JSON persistence-layer ElasticSearch . NoSQL \o/