Category Archives: FreeBSD vs Linux

BSD vs GPL (video)

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Gerard

Interesting presentation by Jason Dixon at the Oct New York City *BSD User Group

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FreeBSD – A better chioce for the Open Desktop?

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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BSD license vs GPL license

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Gerard

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 … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD review and howtos from a Linux user

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Gerard

I recently decided to give the new 7.0 release of FreeBSD ago and was fairly impressed. I did use BSD along time ago on a home server for a few months but pretty much forgot everything about it from back … Continue reading →

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I’m faster than you! No I am!

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Gerard

All FreeBSD interested people will remember the document that Kris Kennaway released (Introducing FreeBSD). In this paper he explains how dramatic improvements have been achieved in FreeBSD 7.0; especially with regards to SMP and SQL database querying (MySQL and PostgreSQL). … Continue reading →

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Depenguinator – version 2.0

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Gerard

In December 2003, I wrote a script for remotely upgrading a linux system to FreeBSD. I gave it a catchy name (‘Depenguinator’, inspired by the ‘Antichickenator’ in Baldur’s Gate), announced it on a FreeBSD mailing list and on Slashdot, and … Continue reading →

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GPL and BSD : impact

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Gerard

Very Grumpy Bunny has written a post comparing the GPLv2 and the BSD licence and explaining the difference when applied to Amarok. There are several BSD licenses, so many that you’ll typically see any particular license under BSD terms listed … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD in 2007 – a review

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Gerard

2007 is over. It was a very successful year for open source software and another 12 interesting months have passed for FreeBSD. In this post I want to look back at 2007 and see how FreeBSD faired, what happened in … Continue reading →