Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating ...

BSD Is Dead, Long Live BSD . Linux is a built-from-scratch facsimile of Unix, but BSD is actually descended from Unix.Unix is ...

Sour grapes? Maybe. Linux is immensely more popular than all of the open source BSD versions. De Raadt says that's partly because Linux gets support from big hardware makers like Hewlett-Packard ...

Why FreeBSD Isn’t Linux Screenshot of Debian GNU/Hurd with Xfce desktop environment (Credit: VulcanSphere, Wikimedia) The Linux kernel is described as ‘Unix-like’, as much like Minix it does ...

BSD is likely to rival Linux very soon in total number of users, and the BSD community is primping for center stage. For example, leading online BSD publication DaemonNews will launch a dead trees ...

Linux-based operating systems have seized the public imagination. BSD patriots argue that the battle is far from over, that BSD is technically superior and will therefore win in the end. That’s ...

FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE and 9.3-RELEASE are considered legacy, while 10.1-RELEASE is production. If you want to be as current as possible, go with 10.1, but 9.3-RELEASE should be good for most ...

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. The first FreeBSD ...

I work in a small company doing statistical analysis. Most of our software just analyzes recieved data processes it and dumps it to a mysql database which ...

Whereas Linux distributions generally start with the Linux kernel but then add their own applications and utilities, FreeBSD is a complete operating system that contains all those pieces. Other ...