Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

An AI agent just autonomously exploited a FreeBSD kernel vulnerability in four hours, signaling a fundamental shift in the economics of offensive cyber capability.

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux ...

Despite spending most of my time buried under my Proxmox nodes and TrueNAS storage rig, I love tinkering with other virtualization platforms, container runtimes, and NAS-centric distros in my spare ...

FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet. FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux. You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I ...

FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 has just dropped, and it brings support for the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment and fixes several issues. FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 is now out for testing, pushing the upcoming ...

FreeBSD 14.4 simplifies notebook use with WLAN firmware in the installer, integrates more easily into the cloud, and prepares for FreeBSD 15. The free operating system FreeBSD 14.4 has gone through ...

In the wake of growing supply chain attacks, the FreeBSD developers are relying on a transparent build concept in the form of Zero-Trust Builds. The approach builds on the established Reproducible ...

FreeBSD and Slackware are both outstanding OSes. FreeBSD is more UNIX-like, while Slackware is more Linux-like. One is geared for servers, while the other is a bit more general. FreeBSD and Slackware.

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural journey of porting a hit VR title to seven non-VR platforms. He explains ...