DragonFly BSD focuses on scalability and multiprocessing. It feels more like a research OS than a daily desktop. Installation is simple and console-focused. X can be buggy. The system seems great for ...

BSD is descended from Unix, while Linux was written as a lookalike of Unix. BSD and Linux use different kernels and package managers. BSD is closer to a pure Unix experience. The FreeBSD installer is ...

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 ...

I just picked up an old Pentium Pro system running BSD 4.0.<BR><BR>http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=34709834&m=2710933165<BR><BR>I have ...

I wrote yesterday about Eben Moglen's upcoming OSBC keynote. It's clearly intended to be a shot over the bow of both proprietary and BSD-style licensing. And that's fine, as we have a wide range of ...

I'm supporting an OpenBSD legacy system that users ssh into. The guy who put it together has been gone for a long time, and I'm not really a BSD guy. He also knew a lot more about BSD than I know ...