One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

ZDNET's key takeaways FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet.FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux.You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I don't give ...

Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, and other operating systems can trace their lineage back to the early commercial versions of ...

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says.

Linux may not yet enjoy the widespread recognition that Windows does, but there’s no denying its popularity on servers, its growing use on desktops, or its ubiquity in the mobile world in the form of ...

The corporate home of the FreeBSD version of Unix is shifting yet again, as a new owner plans to take the place of earlier benefactor Wind River Systems. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

The PS4, which is scheduled to be released in November at the delightful price of $400, appears to run an operating system called Orbis OS, which is a modified version of FreeBSD 9.0. FreeBSD is a ...

Wasabi Systems, which sells the NetBSD version of Unix, is supporting Intel's new IOP321 communications chip, the company said this week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. NetBSD is a ...