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FreeBSD Vows To Compete With Desktop Linux
News FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux. The DesktopBSD and PC BSD projects are also working on a version of...
[May 12, 2006, 13:30]
GPLv3 May Drive Users From Linux To FreeBSD
News GPLv3 will help FreeBSD take some users away from Linux, according to the founder and vice president of The FreeBSD Foundation. Writing in the FreeBSD Foundation's August newsletter, Justin Gibbs said: "GPLv3 is a critical concern for many current...
[September 3, 2007, 8:41]
Watch Out For New Apache Worm
News While the fraction of those servers running on FreeBSD is a minor share of the BSD, Linux and Unix market, both Mituzas and Maiffret warned that whoever created the worm could modify it to attack Apache running on any version of BSD and...
[July 1, 2002, 8:35]
Wind River Acquires BSD's Unix
News BSDi is the owner of the BSD/OS, the version of Unix at the heart of open-source projects such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. Wind River acquired BSDi's software, along with 50 of its employees and Jason Hubbard, one of the leaders of the FreeBSD...
[April 5, 2001, 8:23]
Apple Mac OS X On X86: A First Test
Talkback It's mainly a personal mailserver.and another box I love even more than my iMac.it's has FreeBSD on one of the hard disks.it actually is my favorite OS.it is incredibly stable with the KDE installed as its gui interface.and now I can backup dvds...
[June 12, 2006, 19:16]
Open Source Mogul Joins Apple
News Apple Computer has hired Jordan Hubbard, founder and leader of the effort behind the open-source FreeBSD version of Unix, to work on Apple's operating system derived in part from FreeBSD. Hubbard, one of the co-founders of FreeBSD, launched in 1993...
[June 27, 2001, 10:31]
FreeBSD 6.0 Will Target Wireless Devices
News FreeBSD developer Scott Long said on Thursday that the next version of the open source BSD-based operating system, planned for release in September, includes support for "a lot more" wireless cards and for wireless security standards such as the...
[August 19, 2005, 14:00]
Trouble Ahead For Linux?
News The BSDs, on the other hand, have preserved essential compatibility between BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, but they're perceived as being significantly forked. In addition, the BSD developers efforts have been split between three (given that...
[March 28, 2000, 9:24]
Real Stateful TCP Packet Filtering In IP Filter
White Papers IP Filter is an Open Source packet filtering engine that is available for a number of operating systems, including Solaris and FreeBSD, Open-BSD and NetBSD. IP Filter comes with so-called stateful packet filtering.
[December 21, 2007, 0:01]
Quarter Of SMEs Test Linux
Talkback Most commercial organizations are using FreeBSD or a variant of BSD unix. Companies are trusting *BSD more than Linux. Production uses of Linux? Yes I do see them here and there in the commercial world.
[December 8, 2003, 15:31]
Optimizing The FreeBSD IP And TCP Stack
White Papers FreeBSD has gained fine grained locking in the network stack throughout the 5.x-RELEASE series cumulating in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. This paper gives a detailed look into the implementation and design changes in FreeBSD 7-CURRENT to extract the...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Wrong Interpretation?
Talkback The Newsletter does not say that "GPLv3 may drive users from Linux to FreeBSD". It says that there are deep differences between the BSD and FSF licensing policies an that "this is the perfect time to clarify these differences".
[September 10, 2007, 17:57]
Siberian Coal Mine Digs Out FreeBSD Funding
News FreeBSD is available for no charge under the BSD License and does not enjoy the huge corporate sponsorship that Linux has attracted from the likes of HP and IBM. A Danish developer of the popular FreeBSD operating system, who was seeking...
[June 18, 2004, 14:35]
Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing: The MIT, BSD, Apache, And Academic Free Licenses
White Papers The most well-known of these are probably the BSDNet and FreeBSD Unix-like operating systems and the Apache HTTP Server. The MIT and BSD Licenses were two of the earliest open source licenses. The MIT (or X), BSD, and Apache Licenses are classic...
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Vendors 'slow To Fix' Hyperthreading Flaw
News The FreeBSD security team member has received formal responses to the issue from the makers of the BSD family of open-source operating systems, as well as SCO and Ubuntu Linux. Last December, Percival alerted the BSD family to the problem and a...
[May 27, 2005, 9:30]
Microsoft Edges Into Sharing Code
News But he noted that since FreeBSD and Linux are so similar, "porting the BSD version to Linux would be trivial". One version will run on Windows; the other, with Corel's help, on the FreeBSD version of Unix.
[June 28, 2001, 13:44]
Open-Xchange Development Gets Open-source Boost
Talkback As anyone in the industry of computer news should already know, FreeBSD is not a flavor of Linux. Its family tree includes OpenBSD, NetBSD, MirBSD, BSD/386, BSD 4.2, HP-UX and SunOS, among others. It is a descendant of Berkeley Unix.
[October 7, 2004, 14:53]
Sun's Open Source Licence Wins Final OSI Approval
News BSD became the core of open source projects such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and openBSD. For example, for years it used the BSD variant of Unix from the University of California at Berkeley. Sun has secured a crucial approval in its plan to make its...
[January 19, 2005, 15:10]
Unix/Linux Shops -- Beware Of Kerberos Hole
News Symantec reports that some versions of Conectiva, Red Hat, Gentoo, Mandrake, SuSE, and Debian Linux shipped with vulnerable versions of Kerberos, as did NetBSD, OpenBSD, and IBM's pSeries Parallel System Support Programs, as well as multiple...
[November 11, 2002, 16:54]
Simple DirectMedia Layer
Downloads SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. Simple DirectMedia Layer was designed to be a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio...
[January 24, 2008, 10:02]
