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 ...

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 ...

BSD has been eclipsed by the popularity of Linux over the years. But how did BSD get started? And why did Linux overtake and surpass it? Salon has a detailed article that charts the creation of BSD, ...

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.

Networking software and utilities from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) that were added to AT&T's version of Unix System V to provide a complete system. The Berkeley extensions included TCP/IP ...

OpenBSD has patched four vulnerabilities including privilege escalation flaws and a remotely exploitable authentication bypass. OpenBSD is an open source Unix operating system based on Berkeley ...

The OpenBSD project has released version 4.3 of the popular descendant of Berkeley Software Distribution, featuring a large number of new drivers, software packages and bug fixes. The distribution, ...