The subject of this week’s Linux Picks and Pans is a representative of a less well-known computing platform that coexists with Linux as an open source operating system. If you thought that the Linux ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY-- Some of you may think there is only one contemporary Unix alternative to Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac OS: Linux. This, however, is a misapprehension. While Linux is definitely the ...

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 ...

This month’s Linux distro review isn’t of a Linux distribution at all—instead, we’re taking a look at FreeBSD, the original gangster of free Unix-like operating systems. Before we get started, I’d ...

ExtremeTech has published an interesting article by Brett Glass on the history, philosophy, and culture of the Berkeley Software Distribution, commonly known as BSD. From the birth of UNIX and BSD and ...

As FreeBSD marks three decades of success, we can thank open source freedom, a strong culture, a shared leadership model, modern development practices, and robust code that continues to evolve.