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FreeBSD quick news and links (04/08/2010)
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 guru. A new *BSD Planet Website Edward launched AboutBSD recently as a new *BSD blogs agregating website. It [...]
Continue reading...Linux vs BSD with a little focus on OpenBSD
10. May 2010
Juraj Sipos, the founder of MaheshaBSD, has published an article listing the difference between Linux and BSD: “This article is not about the history of Unix; however, Unix is such a complex issue that it deserves few words in this respect: BSD family of Unix systems is based upon the source code of real Unix developed [...]
Continue reading...Audio presentations: 1 pfSense and 2 BSD for Linux Users
12. March 2010
Dru Lavigne has uploaded the audio file of her presentation at SCALE 2010 talk on BSD for Linux Users is now available in mp3 format. Slides are available as PDF She also mentioned an mp3 of a NYCBUG session on PFSense II, Rocking The Datacenter. pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD and the GPL
3. March 2010
Every so many months the never ending discussion about the BSD vs GPL license heats up. Supporters for either license have their thoughts and opinions to why one license is better than the other. Some say that these discussions are a waste of time. Whichever license you defend/promote, if you’re interested in reading (and joining [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD and Linux (RootBSD)
30. December 2009
The guys over at RootBSD have updated their blog with a post on the differences between Linux and FreeBSD; partly seen from a hoster’s perspective. We thought it would be a good idea to help educate our current RootBSD users, and potential users, as to some of the differences between FreeBSD and Linux. We have nothing [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.0 benchmarked against Linux, OpenSolaris
30. November 2009
Phoronix has done another benchmark test of FreeBSD against other *nix systems: Fedora and OpenSolaris. “With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between [...]
Continue reading...Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port
13. October 2009
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has been around for a while, but now it will be an official part of the distro, combining the strength FreeBSD kernel with the GNU C library and userland utilities. The Debian Project has announced that it sees the port of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel fit to be handled equal with [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD: Like Linux
5. October 2009
Kuvaton has a picture of operating systems, comparing them with cars. Or should I say, a picture of cars compared with operating systems? FreeBSD: Like Linux but takes more cargo on the expense of being less customable. I like the VMS one. What do you think of these comparisons? OK, fair or ridiculous? This picture reminds me of [...]
Continue reading...BSD for Linux users (slideshow)
1. October 2009
Dru Lavigne has uploaded her presentation done at Ohio LinuxFest. This slideshow describes the differences between (Free)BSD and Linux.
Continue reading...FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 benchmarks
29. September 2009
Some say comparing FreeBSD vs Linux benchmarks is unreliable and is as it were, comparing apples with pears. For what it’s worth: the Phoronix team has done some FreeBSD 8.0 RC1 vs Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 benchmarking: Both FreeBSD 8.0 and Ubuntu 9.10 will be included in our upcoming big operating system comparison, but for now we [...]
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5. August 2010
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