DragonFly BSD focuses on scalability and multiprocessing. It feels more like a research OS than a daily desktop. Installation is simple and console-focused. X can be buggy. The system seems great for ...

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Wind River Systems plans to develop an embedded version of the BSD/OS operating system that it bought in mid April (see separate story). Before selling its software to Wind River, BSDi Software began ...

A Unix developer has discovered and fixed a filesystem bug in Berkeley Software Distribution, a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system, discovering in the process that the bug was at ...

I thought that for most Linux/BSD operating systems that code was fairly portable. So that something I downloaded and compiled fine on a Slackware box for instance would also compile on a BSD ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tachyum ® today announced that the FreeBSD operating system is now running on the Prodigy ® FPGA prototype as part of efforts to ensure that customer requirements are met ...

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, ...

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 ...