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. The first FreeBSD ...

FreeBSD doesn’t come with drivers out of the box in the way that a full-featured Linux distro does, so if you have something unusual then it’s up to you to find and install a driver.

Installing FreeBSD . Installing FreeBSD itself was straightforward. All I had to do was to download an ISO image and boot it, similar to any other Linux distro. I chose the latest 14.2 release, as ...

I didn't read through all the comments, so I don't know if it was mentioned, but PC-BSD is nearly an official branch of FreeBSD and it provides a fairly functional desktop out of the box. Is there ...

DistroWatch reviews FreeBSD 10.3’s new features. Jesse Smith at DistroWatch did a full review of FreeBSD 10.0 a while back, and now he has some thoughts to share about the new features that have ...

You got effectively the same software as on a GNU/Linux distro, with FreeBSD even providing binary (user-space) compatibility with Linux and with official GPU driver support from e.g. NVidia .

If you follow the Linux scene, you might recall that FreeBSD 9.1 was originally supposed to be released around the middle of September. That plan got scrapped when the first Release Candidate (RC ...

Also: Garuda KDE Dr460nized might be the coolest-looking Linux distro Over the years, I've toyed with FreeBSD, but it has received a mere fraction of my attention (compared to Linux).

A FreeBSD image on Azure has new additions and improvements, plus Microsoft support ... a Linux distro designed for ASIC hardware to run Microsoft’s network management software.