People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux ...

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

Installing FreeBSD is straightforward with a text-based installer and automatic partitioning available. Installing apps and desktop environments, like Xfce, using pkg commands is manageable and ...

For years now, Linux has been all the rage. But in recent times, there have been murmurings among some veterans — long-time users — after the introduction of systemd, the init system that seems to ...

In the past, many SMBs were content to let their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) handle e-mail services. But now they're interested in running mail servers onsite, due to the widespread adoption of ...

This month’s Linux distro review isn’t of a Linux distribution at all—instead, we’re taking a look at FreeBSD, the original gangster of free Unix-like operating systems. Before we get started, I’d ...