the objective is to find out why are more people choosing linux instead of one of the bsd (freebsd, openbsd etc). This is interesting given the following 2 points - FreeBSD ability to stay up and ...

FreeBSD 15.1 benefits from the AI hype, improves support for notebooks, expands hardware drivers, and enhances virtualization ...

Since the code for both is open, and they both are Unix systems, and use more or less the same dev tools. What are the real differences. As I understand it there are differnt version of command line ...

Linux may not yet enjoy the widespread recognition that Windows does, but there’s no denying its popularity on servers, its growing use on desktops, or its ubiquity in the mobile world in the form of ...

A few years ago [Serge Vakulenko] started the RetroBSD project–a 16-bit port of the old 2.11BSD operating system to the Microchip PIC32 microcontroller. This was impressive, but version 2 of BSD is, ...

Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says.

After a delay when a microcode-related boot problem surfaced, FreeBSD 15.1 is now available. Laptop support is getting there, ...

Among the legions of Linux users and admins, there seems to be a sort of passive curiosity about FreeBSD and other *BSDs. Like commuters on a packed train, they gaze out at a less crowded, vaguely ...

Some commands don’t always behave the same.

Last year whenever people asked me what to use when building a home server, I'd tell them to use Linux or FreeBSD because there was absolutely nothing from Microsoft under a few hundred dollars. There ...