The founder of a company that, in 1993, first published the open-source version of Unix will once again be in charge of the core FreeBSD business. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Last month I started a series in which I try out different operating systems with the aim of using them for my everyday work, and my pick was Slackware 15, the latest version of the first Linux distro ...

Bob Bruce, founder of Walnut Creek CDROM--the company that in 1993 first published FreeBSD--will once again be in charge of the core FreeBSD business. That's because the current owner, Wind River ...

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 ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

London-based mi2g Intelligence Unit on Tuesday released a report that says Mac OS X and Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) Unix are the “world’s safest and most secure 24/7 online computing ...

FreeBSD 7.0, the latest version of a UNIX-like, 64-bit open source operating system, was released last week. The OS is considered to be a highly stable UNIX variant, typically used to run servers ...