Category Archives: FreeBSD vs Linux

FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 benchmarks

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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PC-BSD 7.1 vs. Kubuntu 9.04 Benchmarks

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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Great Bay Software moving to FreeBSD

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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Debian gets FreeBSD kernel support

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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Linsux.org – proudly powered by FreeBSD

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Gerard

As of 21 March 2009 Linsux.org is no longer hosted on Linux, but proudly powered by FreeBSD. Announcement

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Tomahawk Desktop switches to FreeBSD; from Linux

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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Differences between BSD and Linux

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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Software licensing; GPL, BSD or public domain?

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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