Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux ...

FreeBSD's friendliest desktop distro bets on the controversial fork GhostBSD plans to move to the XLibre X11 server to better ...

BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die The latest KDE desktop environment is out. Among other things, it comes with a pledge that it won't require systemd ...

From FreeBSD 15 onwards, there will only be four years of support, but more updates are planned. Several teams in the project need some relief. Colin Percival, who took over as Head of FreeBSD Release ...

FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet. FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux. You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I ...

The founder of a company that, in 1993, first published the open-source version of Unix will once again be in charge of the core FreeBSD business. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

FreeBSD and Slackware are both outstanding OSes. FreeBSD is more UNIX-like, while Slackware is more Linux-like. One is geared for servers, while the other is a bit more general. FreeBSD and Slackware.

FreeBSD 15 is here: The BSD, primarily suited for servers and appliances, has made great strides – for its standards. This is likely due to the significant industry support, which clearly sees FreeBSD ...