After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems ...

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 ...

Linux is a terrific desktop operating system but sometimes it can be fun to use something else, particularly if you have the personality of a distrohopper. PC-BSD is one alternative that’s worth ...

My positive BSD experiences notwithstanding, I see the Linux option as a net positive for ixSystems as a company. While BSD may theoretically offer the most business-friendly licensing terms, there is ...

To the surprise—and likely consternation—of BSD fans everywhere, FreeNAS vendor iXsystems is building a new version of its core product, TrueNAS, on top of Debian Linux. The company is still being coy ...

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 ...

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 ...

I spend a lot of time listening to lots of folks complain that they don’t have a choice, that big, bad Microsoft has come in and made their lives a living hell and that someone should do something ...

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.

PC-BSD on the desktop was quite close to Linux as far as an end-users perspective was concerned, Moore said. "At first glance it may even be difficult to tell them apart, we have almost all the same ...