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Photo by crypto, via Flickr. FreeBSD, a popular open-source Unix operating system with roots stretching back to the 1970s, is now available through the Azure Marketplace as a virtual-machine image 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 ...

Cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean has added the option to run the FreeBSD operating system in its cloud, and is also considering throwing Windows Server into the mix at a later date. The ...

The security team for the open-source FreeBSD operating system has rushed out a patch for a zero-day local root vulnerability. The zero-day was published on the Full Disclosure mailing list on Monday, ...

This post was updated on December 16 to make clear that for most of FreeBSD's history, it wasn't possible to use RDRAND and Padlock as the sole source of random numbers fed to the /dev/random engine.

FreeBSD, the free operating system that enjoys a growing and extremely loyal following, is nearing a code freeze for its most significant update in years. Scott Long, the software engineer leading the ...

It has been revealed today that the Sony PlayStation 4 next-generation games console operating system uses FreeBSD 9.0, a free Unix-like operating system which has descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD ...

The computer maker hires Jordan Hubbard, founder and leader of the effort behind the open-source FreeBSD version of Unix, to work on Apple's operating system. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

In the past, many SMBs were content to let their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) handle e-mail services. But now they're interested in running mail servers onsite, due to the widespread adoption of ...