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 ...

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.

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 ...

After years of Linux, I tried GhostBSD and found it incredibly stable - and nearly unbreakable ...

Patches are available for a newly discovered Linux, BSD and Solaris vulnerability called Stack Clash that bypasses stack guard-page mitigations and enables root access. Linux, BSD, Solaris and other ...

BSD or Linux on the desktop? I was reading a review of GhostBSD 3.5 on DistroWatch today and it got me wondering if perhaps some Linux users should consider BSD as an alternative to Linux on the ...

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 ...

I think we all know which of the three major Unix variants has the largest number of paid up licenses for non embedded use: it's the one we usually hear least about, the Darwin BSD variant used by ...

Has Linux moved so far ahead that switching systems will mean one has to do without many applications that one has gotten used to? iTWire spoke to Kris Moore (pictured), one of those deeply involved ...

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 ...