1. 11-Way Linux, BSD Platform Comparison
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

... Debian GNU/Linux, and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. The other competitors include PC-BSD, DragonFlyBSD, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Mageia, and... Building upon last month's eight-way Linux vs. BSD ...

2. Debian 7.0 GNU/Linux vs. GNU/kFreeBSD Benchmarks
(Hardware/Desktops)

Up this morning are benchmarks comparing the performance of Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0, the version of the Debian operating system that ships the GNU user-land but replaces the Linux ...

3. $45 BeagleBone Black Keeps Eyes on the Pi's
(Embedded / Mobile/Mobile Linux)

... said Kridner. The board also supports OSes like FreeBSD, QNX, and Windows Embedded. The updated Angstrom release is newly compatible with the Linux Foundation's Yocto Project code. The BeagleBone ...

4. AMD Kernel Mode-Setting Progresses For FreeBSD
(Hardware/Drivers)

More of the Radeon kernel mode-setting (KMS) driver stack being ported to FreeBSD from Linux is beginning to function... More of the Radeon kernel mode-setting (KMS) driver stack being ported to FreeBSD ...

5. Return to Root: How to Get Started With Debian
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

... supports more hardware architectures, supports multiple kernels (Linux, FreeBSD, and GNU Hurd) and is 100% Free. It is also free of cost, and the good Debian people came up with a simple, elegant ...

6. FreeNAS 8.3.1 Introduces Full Disk ZFS Encryption
(Enterprise Computing/Systems Management )

The latest update to the FreeBSD-based distribution for Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices introduces the ability to set up full disk encryption on ZFS volumes and several other smaller improvements... ...

7. BSD Release: FreeNAS 8.3.1
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

... and UNIX-like systems: "The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE. FreeNAS 8.3.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the.... Read ...

8. FreeBSD Works On AMD KMS, BHyVe, Clang
(Software/Applications)

The FreeBSD Q4'2012 status report has been issued to update its users and other stakeholders on the state of this BSD operating system... The FreeBSD Q4'2012 status report has been issued to update ...

9. FreeBSD 9.1: LLVM/Clang Battling GCC
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

With LLVM/Clang having become the default FreeBSD x86 compiler as of last year and the recent FreeBSD 9.1 release shipping not only LLVM/Clang but also the libc++ library, new benchmarks were carried out ...

10. FreeBSD Moves Along On ARM Support
(Hardware/Desktops)

While Linux continues to move along quite briskly on ARM hardware support and already has 64-bit ARM AArch64 support, that's not the case in the BSD world. With FreeBSD, they're still working on bringing ...

11. BSD Release: FreeBSD 9.1
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

FreeBSD 9.1 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the stable/9 branch, which improves ...

12. Author Gabriella Coleman Expands on Role of Linux in Hacker Culture
(Featured Blogs/Jennifer Cloer)

... community? As you immersed yourself in the community, what surprises did you encounter? Coleman: For the first few months in San Francisco, I scoped various projects including Apache, FreeBSD and Debian. ...

13. Most Popular Linux Downloads and Posts of 2012
(Software/Applications)

... and posts from 2012 (with a little FreeBSD thrown in for fun). We tacked some great Linux subjects this year, from building home servers to finding the perfect Linux distribution and even fixing ...

14. AWS Marketplace Pages for Debian, CentOS and FreeBSD
(Enterprise Computing/Cloud Computing)

The AWS Marketplace, the commercial store for Amazon Machine Images for EC2 cloud servers, now also lists free-of-charge images of the Debian, CentOS and FreeBSD distributions. The AWS Marketplace, ...

15. Development Release: GhostBSD 3.0-RC3
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

Eric Turgeon has announced the availability of the third release candidate for GhostBSD 3.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop with GNOME or LXDE: "The third release candidate of GhostBSD ...

16. Development Release: FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

The fast and furious development of FreeNAS, a FreeBSD-based operating system designed to provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services, continues with a new beta: "The FreeNAS development team ...

17. Hardware Hacks: Learning the Pi, DSLR hacking and the Cubieboard
(Hardware/Peripherals)

This week Hardware Hacks looks at a new online course on building an OS for the Raspberry Pi, hacking a battery grip to add new functionality to a DSLR camera, a FreeBSD port for the Raspberry Pi, and ...

18. NetBSD 6.0 RC1 Released
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

NetBSD 6.0 RC1 is now available for this BSD alternative to FreeBSD... NetBSD 6.0 RC1 is now available for this BSD alternative to FreeBSD...   Read more at Phoronix  ...

19. Riak Clustered NoSQL Database Adds Official FreeBSD Support
(Enterprise Computing/Clustering)

Version 1.2 of the open source clustered NoSQL database adds official support for FreeBSD and features new approaches to cluster management. The commercial Enterprise edition has also been enhanced... ...

20. Development Release: PC-BSD 9.0-RC3
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

Kris Moore today announced the first beta build of PC-BSD 9.1, a user friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD: "The BETA1 images for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 is now available for i386 and amd64 ...