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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...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...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 [...]
Continue reading...PC-BSD 7.1 vs. Kubuntu 9.04 Benchmarks
24. April 2009
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 [...]
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5. August 2010
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