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PC-BSD 7.1 vs. Kubuntu 9.04 Benchmarks
The well-know bench marking website Phoronix has carried out a benchmark run between Kubuntu 9.04 and PC-BSD 7.1 (20/04/2009) Earlier this month PC-BSD 7.1 was released, which is based upon the FreeBSD 7.1 stable release, but of course with the extra packages and changes that make PC-BSD an easier to use BSD-based desktop operating system. PC-BSD 7.1 [...]
Continue reading...Great Bay Software moving to FreeBSD
20. April 2009
Great Bay Software has announced (Press Release) that it has migrated their the OS of their appliances from Linux to FreeBSD. The decision was motivated by FreeBSD’s license, stability and version control. … In addition, the Great Bay has changed to FreeBSD® for all of its appliances, a move motivated by a quest for greater performance, more stability [...]
Continue reading...Debian gets FreeBSD kernel support
7. April 2009
The open-source Debian operating system (Linux) gained support for the FreeBSD kernel last weekend (unstable / experimental), allowing users to run the same operating system on two different software cores. The project was announced in a message to the Debian developers’ announcement list. More on zdnet.co.uk Will it be useful? Time will tell – internetnews.com The Debian kFreeBSD Team [...]
Continue reading...Linsux.org – proudly powered by FreeBSD
24. March 2009
As of 21 March 2009 Linsux.org is no longer hosted on Linux, but proudly powered by FreeBSD. Announcement
Continue reading...Tomahawk Desktop switches to FreeBSD; from Linux
13. March 2009
According to this press release Tomahawk Computers has changed its Tomahawk Desktop from Linux to FreeBSD. Tomahawk Desktop switches to BSD and raise funds Tomahawk Computers Pte Ltd, Singapore, the makers of the Tomahawk Desktop operating system, is pleased to announce that the next version of the Tomahawk Desktop operating system would be based on the rock [...]
Continue reading...Differences between BSD and Linux
27. January 2009
Geekmalaya has a post with 18 points on why the writer thinks FreeBSD is better than Linux. BSD license allows users/companies to modify a program’s source code and not to release changes to the public BSD has the so-called “core system” (without packages) On BSD systems, all add-on packages are strictly installed into the /usr/local directory BSD systems use [...]
Continue reading...Software licensing; GPL, BSD or public domain?
21. January 2009
The discussion on GPL vs BSD licensing will probably never end, unless one or both licenses cease to exist. There’s an interesting post about the GPL license and BSD license, and the writer’s suggests that the public domain license is the license to be chosen for real freedom, as the other two lay restrictions on the [...]
Continue reading...BSD vs GPL (video)
24. November 2008
Interesting presentation by Jason Dixon at the Oct New York City *BSD User Group
Continue reading...FreeBSD – A better chioce for the Open Desktop?
29. August 2008
Thoughts about FreeBSD Since Linsux.org is now a *BSD supporter, it only makes sense that we’d write a few Pro-BSD articles, right? Good. Today, we’re going to talk about why FreeBSD is a better choice for the “Open Desktop”. Linux is the current leading Open Source Operating System (LOL?). But, then again, Linux isn’t really an Operating System. [...]
Continue reading...BSD license vs GPL license
18. July 2008
Every so many weeks you find that GPL license advocates attack the BSD license. These attacks are about freedom of sharing the code, and to what degree this should be allowed. Chemisor, a BSD advocate, is of the opinion that a linguistic misunderstanding may be the root of the disagreements over the difference licensing philosophies. He [...]
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24. April 2009
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