Category Archives: FreeBSD vs Linux

Benchmarks: FreeBSD, Oracle Linux, UFS and ZFS

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Gerard

Some love benchmarks, others hate them, especially when ‘apples’ are compare with ‘pears’, when Linux is benchmarked against FreeBSD. For what it’s worth there are some new benchmarks on openbenchmarking.org: FreeBSD 9.0 vs Oracle Linux 6.1 UFS, ZFS on FreeBSD … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD vs Linux (video)

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Gerard

FreeBSD or Linus? This question can evoke heated debates, but according to Brandon Wirtz (FreeBSD vs Linux) they’re both great, but if your hardware is supported by FreeBSD, go for the latter. I presume he is talking about servers. [youtube n-Dd2LayNQ4]

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FreeBSD or Debian Linux? FreeBSD or Linux?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Gerard

This is an often asked question in newsgroups and forums. The reason for this, is that there is no easy answer. If a straight forward answer could be given, it could have been found on Wikipedia. The fact is, that … Continue reading →

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Please vote for FreeBSD (Linux New Media Award)

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Gerard

Strictly, FreeBSD is not Linux, but on Linux New Media you can vote for your Linux distro. FreeBSD is one of them. Let’s show the world what the “world’s most favourite operating system” is/was in 2010 ;-) Vote here: Linux New Media … Continue reading →

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kFreeBSD with ZFS, Bordeaux on PC-BSD, benchmarks and pfSense

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Gerard

Debian’s GNU/kFreeBSD Installer will support ZFS “While Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has supported the ZFS file-system with its FreeBSD-8 kernel, support for installing the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution to a root ZFS file-system will now be possible with the Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” release. … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD quick news and links (week 42)

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Gerard

Some links and leftovers: 1. Update on DAHDI Project Max Khon has completed the FreeBSD Foundation funded DAHDI Project and submitted a report. DAHDI (Digium/Asterisk Hardware Device Interface) is the open source device interface technology used to control Digium and … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD news and links (week 40)

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Gerard

I have some news links an leftovers for you from (the) last (few) week(s): 1. PC-BSD 8.1 [Review] We always wonder why is it that Microsoft makes us pay to use its OS, so why not shift to Linux or … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD quick news and links (04/08/2010)

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Gerard

PC-BSD Blog Dru Lavigne has joined the PC-BSD team this month. The first thing she did, was setting up another blog: the PC-BSD Blog. She already posts BSD related posts on it.toolbox.com: A year in the life of a BSD … Continue reading →