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November 2023
FreeBSD14 Release: Best New Features
debugpoint.com,Arindam
Description of new features brought by FreeBSD 14
August 2023
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds
theregister.com, LiamProven
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds. On AWS Firecracker – butthere are other new micro-VM engines around, too
June 2023
Happy 30th, FreeBSD!
infoworld.com, DebGoodkin
Happy 30th, FreeBSD! Why the FreeBSD open source project hasendured
October 2022
FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweighthypervisor
theregister.com, LiamProven
The FreeBSD developer who brought FreeBSD to Amazon EC² has now gotit working on the company's lightweight Firecracker hypervisor.
July 2022
CheriBSD-based computer runs KDE for the firsttime
theregister.com, LiamProven
Wayland and the KDE Plasma desktop now run on CheriBSD, the specialversion of FreeBSD for Arm's experimental Morello hardware.
May 2022
FreeBSD13.1 is out for everything from PowerPC to x86-64
theregister.com, LiamProven
The latest version of FreeBSD, 13.1, was released this week forboth 32 and 64-bit forms of x86, Arm, POWER – and 64-bitRISC-V.
March 2021
License to thrill
theregister.com, TimAnderson
Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and thecompleted toolchain project that changes everything
February 2020
DiscussingPast, Present and Future of FreeBSD Project
itsfoss.com, Abhishek Prakash
FreeBSD is one of the most popular BSD distributions. It is used ondesktop, servers and embedded devices for more than two decades. Wetalked to Deb Goodkin, executive director, FreeBSD Foundation anddiscussed the past, present and future of FreeBSD project.Supporting an open source operating system: a Q&A withthe FreeBSD Foundation
techradar.com,
When discussing alternative operating systems to Microsoft’sWindows or Apple’s macOS, Linux often comes to mind. However, whileLinux is a recreation of UNIX, FreeBSD is more of a continuation.The free and open source operating system was initially developedby students at the University of California at Berkeley which iswhy the BSD in its name stands for Berkeley SoftwareDistribution.
August 2019
Meet FreeBSDProject – A Journey of 26 Years and Beyond
pfind.com, William Chapman
When talking about operating systems or platforms to run the wholecomputing processes for various devices, you might have heard aboutFreeBSD quite often. However, today’s implementations of thisoperating system are apparently not too well-known, and many peopledon’t know the contributions of FreeBSD in today’s computingtechnology. Since this operating system is not generally availablefor the average users, FreeBSD remains to be something that manypeople nowadays are not well-acquainted with. Yet, it has been usedin various hardware and online platforms today, and it has beenactively used for more than 26 years now.
June 2019
FreeBSD Turns26
LWN.net, Sean Kerner
The FreeBSD operating system is continuing to make progress, 26years after it got its name. Among the areas where work is beingdone is on improved support for RISC-V, FUSE filesystem updates, Cruntime changes, and security improvements. FreeBSD Day iscelebrated on June 19, in recognition of the date in 1993 when thename FreeBSD was coined for a fork of the 386BSD project. The firstofficial release of FreeBSD did not occur until November 1, 1993,however.8 Popular Products You Didn't Know Were Built with OpenSource
DesignNews, ChrisWiltz
A popular streaming service, video games consoles, and mobilemessaging all owe a debt to FreeBSD.FreeBSD Foundation Announces FreeBSD Day on June 19,2019
BrillianceSecurity Magazine, Editorial Staff
The FreeBSD Foundation, supporters of FreeBSD, one of the oldestand largest open source computer operating systems in the world andused by many top corporations, has announced that June 19, 2019 isFreeBSD Day. FreeBSD Day marks the date in 1993 that developersnamed the new open source operating system and celebrates theimpact FreeBSD has had on open source computing.
April 2019
FreeBSD ZFS vs. ZoL Performance, Ubuntu ZFS On LinuxReference
Phoronix, MichaelLarabel
Overall, the FreeBSD ZFS On Linux port is looking good so far andwe are looking forward to it hopefully maturing in time for FreeBSD13.0. Nice job to iX Systems and all of those involved, especiallythe ZFS On Linux project. Those wanting to help in testing can trythe FreeBSD ZoL spins. Stay tuned for more benchmarks and on morediverse hardware as time allows and the FreeBSD ZoL support furthermatures, but so far at least the performance numbers are in goodshape.
November 2017
Why did we build our solution on top ofFreeBSD?
Synergy SKY, Egil Hasting
FreeBSD has given us the "it just works" experience, withoutsacrificing the full control. It feels and behaves mature andstable with great performance!
June 2016
FreeBSD Project: Under the Hood
HostingAdvice.com, AlexandraLeslie
With over 400 volunteer devs at its helm, the FreeBSD Project is adynamic force that puts the control in administrators' hands.Project Committer Allan Jude has been a fan of the project since2002. He discusses the system's internal structure and the featurefunctionality that drew him in contributing to its documentationand then to its development and what he's working on now, more thana decade later.FreeBSD now available in Azure Marketplace
Microsoft AzureBlog, Jason Anderson
Microsoft excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as aready-made VM image available directly from the Azure Marketplace.This means that not only can you quickly bring-up a FreeBSD VM inAzure, but also that in the event you need technical support,Microsoft support engineers can assist.
October 2015
Cascadia Community Builder Award recognizes contributorMichael Dexter
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, SeaGLBlog
The Cascadia Community Builder Award recognizes a person who hasmade an outstanding contribution to the free software movement inthe Cascadia region. Michael Dexter was chosen because his workwith the Portland Linux/Unix Group and the BSD communityexemplified the type of unsung community-building work that is socritical to the growth of the free software movement.
July 2015
Enabling on AArch64
ARMLtd. Blog, Andrew Wafaa
A summary of the activities around porting to ARM's new AArch64 (orARM64) platform.
March 2015
Running on the server: a sysadmin speaks
iTWire, Sam Varghese
For years now, Linux has been all the rage. But in recent times,there have been murmurings among some veterans long-time usersafter the introduction of systemd, the init system that seems tooverstep its boundaries.
January 2015
Presenting FreeBSD! How We Made It Happen
Digital Ocean Inc.Blog, Neal Shrader
virtual private servers with IPv6 support are now available on theDigitalOcean platform in: San Francisco, New York, London,Amsterdam, and Singapore. DigitalOcean is also seeking tutorials,for which they are offering$200 USD each.
December 2014
Get started with FreeBSD: A brief intro for Linuxusers
InfoWorld, Paul Venezia
A brief introduction to FreeBSD for curious Linux users. Covers theinstallation and updating process, building a basic firewall,installing binary packages, and finally installing and configuringa typical web stack with Apache, PHP, and MySQL.
November 2014
The Foundation Announces Generous Donation and FundraisingMilestone
The Foundation,The Foundation Board
The Foundation is pleased to announce the receipt of arecord-breaking donation from Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder ofWhatsApp.
October 2014
Cavium to Sponsor ARMv8 BasedImplementation
PR Newswire, Cavium,Inc.
Cavium, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products thatenable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud,wired and wireless networking announced today that it iscollaborating with the Foundation to develop and deliver the firstARMv8 reference design and implementation of the Operating Systembased on the ThunderX workload optimized processor family for nextgeneration Data Center and Cloud workloads.
September 2014
Parole de Tux: Tux et [french]
Captain Posix, CaptainPosix
"Parole de Tux" is a Belgian monthly podcast which talks about newsand technical topics regarding Free and Open Source Software. Forthe first time, this episode is dedicated to. The guest, adeveloper, sums up the history of the BSDs and their differences.He then briefly explains similarities and differences between atypical Linux distribution and before moving on to the main topic:the graphics stack, and how performs in this area.Atlantic.Net Announces SSD-based VPSServices
Talkin' Cloud, ChrisTalbot
SSD cloud VPS hosting solutions provider Atlantic.net has rolledout to its data centers in Orlando, Dallas and Toronto.
January 2014
to support secure boot by mid-year
ITWire, Sam Varghese
Kirk McKusick describes the progress has been making in supportingUEFI secure boot, which is scheduled for inclusion in 10.1.McKusick Denies Lagging on Security
ITWire, Sam Varghese
Kirk McKusick denies that is trailing behind when it comes tosecurity practices, asserting that over the past decade has madegood design and engineering choices in.
June 2013
Fixing Network Attached Storage with commodity hardware andBSD
Boing Boing, Ben Laurie
Ben Laurie discusses how and why he replaced a proprietary NAS withone based on and commodity hardware.
February 2013
2012 - A BSD Year in Retrospective
OSnews, Julian Djamil
A retrospective of all the exciting developments in the BSD-familyof operating systems in 2012, focusing on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSDand Dragonfly BSD.
January 2013
A Decade ofOS Access-control Extensibility
ACM Queue, Robert N. M.Watson
To discuss operating system security is to marvel at the diversityof deployed access-control models.
November 2012
A world without Linux: Where would Apache, Microsoft evenApple be today?
Infoworld, Paul Venezia
If Linux hadn't conquered the world, we'd all be running FreeBSD,maybe even on our desktops.
August 2012
FreeBSD Now Supported on Windows Server Hyper-V Via BetaRelease
Redmondmag, Kurt Mackie
Microsoft and collaborators today announced a beta release ofdrivers that enable the open source FreeBSD 8.2 server operatingsystem to run in a virtual machine (VM) using Microsoft's Hyper-VServer.
June 2012
X.Org 7.7 Goes Into FreeBSD, KMS Is Ready
phoronix, Michael Larabel
While X.Org 7.7 was only released last week, this updated set of Xpackages have already worked their way into FreeBSD. The FreeBSDdevelopers request your help in testing.Netflix Open Connect Network: FreeBSD, Not Linux
phoronix, Michael Larabel
This week Netflix announced their Open Connect Network as their ownopen CDN (Content Distribution Network), but rather than usingLinux as the base for this open-source platform, they decided touse FreeBSD.
May 2012
Why Should You Use FreeBSD? Here's Some Reasons
phoronix, Michael Larabel
FreeBSD is wondering why are you using FreeBSD. David Chisnall ofthe FreeBSD project is working on updating their advocacy materialregarding this leading *BSD operating system. As such, he asked onthe mailing list "Why Are You Using FreeBSD?"Colocation Provider NYI Launches East Coast Mirror forFreeBSD Foundation
The WHIR, Nicole Henderson
Colocation provider NYI announced on Friday that it has launchedthe East Coast mirror for The FreeBSD Foundation. "FreeBSD has beena critical component of everything we do," Phillip Koblence, VPoperations, NYI said in a statement. "We look upon this launch asour way of giving back to a community whose open source projectshave enabled us to craft customized solutions for our customersfrom the inside out."FreeBSD and Microsoft Hyper-V Interoperability ExpectedThis Summer
Redmondmag, Kurt Mackie
Microsoft and its partnering companies are finalizing a projectthat will enable FreeBSD interoperability with Windows ServerHyper-V.FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC
phoronix, Michael Larabel
As indicated by the Q1-2012 FreeBSD Status Report, LLVM's Clangcompiler is quickly replacing GCC for this popular BSD operatingsystem. The developers are also making much progress in a GNU-freeC++11 stack. For FreeBSD 10 they're aiming for Clang as the defaultC/C++ compiler, deprecate GCC, and to have a BSD-licensed C++stack.FreeBSD Achieved A Lot In Q1'2012
phoronix, Michael Larabel
For the first three months of the 2012 calendar year, the FreeBSDproject achieved a lot when it came to advancing their openoperating system. Here's some of the interesting highlights fromtheir quarterly status report.
April 2012
FreeBSD Gets A New X.Org With Intel KMS
phoronix, Michael Larabel
The FreeBSD team working on X support have announced a set of X.Orgupdates to bring the FreeBSD package support to X.Org 7.5.2, whichnow includes Intel KMS support.
March 2012
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in March2012
Netcraft Ltd., Netcraft
FreeBSD the OS of 3 of the top 10 most reliable hosting companysites in March 202.
February 2012
PC-BSD 9 review ? to FreeBSD what Ubuntu is toDebian
Linux User & Developer,Koen Vervloesem
PC-BSD offers you a fully functional desktop environment based onrock solid FreeBSD technology, which makes it the perfect operatingsystem for your first steps with BSD?
January 2012
[Review] FreeBSD 9.0
linuxconfig.net,linuxconfig.net
This article provides an overview of some of the new featuresavailable in FreeBSD 9.0.
November 2011
Why aren't you using FreeBSD?
Infoworld, Paul Venezia
This article writes about why Paul Venezia is using FreeBSD for hisservers
September 2011
FreeBSD: A Faster Platform For Linux Gaming ThanLinux?
Phoronix,
Michael Larabel shows how FreeBSD runs some linux programs fasterthan linux does.
July 2011
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in June2011
Netcraft Ltd., JenniferCownie
FreeBSD the OS of top 3 most reliable hosting company sites in June2011.
March 2011
PC-BSD8.2 review
LinuxBSDos.com,LinuxBSDos.com
LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation (especially at the diskencryption features), system configuration and system management(including the installation of third party software packages viaPC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.2.
February 2011
FreeBSD 8.2 expands ZFS support
Datamation.com,Sean Michael Kerner
The author looks at the status and the future of ZFS under FreeBSD.The information is based on interviews the website did with FreeBSDdeveloper Josh Paetzel and Matt Olander from iXsystems.
August 2010
PC-BSD8.1 review
LinuxBSDos.com,LinuxBSDos.com
LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation, system configuration andsystem management (including the installation of third partysoftware packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.1.
February 2010
Health Check: FreeBSD - The unknown giant
The H, Richard Hillesley
Richard Hillesley looks at the history of FreeBSD, the BSD license,Beastie and the new features in FreeBSD 8.0.
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