Last month I started a series in which I try out different operating systems with the aim of using them for my everyday work, and my pick was Slackware 15, the latest version of the first Linux distro ...

Linux isn't the only open-source operating system (OS). There are also a number of Unix-like open-source BSD operating systems, including FreeBSD, that are still in active development. The FreeBSD ...

I thought that for most Linux/BSD operating systems that code was fairly portable. So that something I downloaded and compiled fine on a Slackware box for instance would also compile on a BSD ...