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.

My positive BSD experiences notwithstanding, I see the Linux option as a net positive for ixSystems as a company. While BSD may theoretically offer the most business-friendly licensing terms, there is ...

Linux is a terrific desktop operating system but sometimes it can be fun to use something else, particularly if you have the personality of a distrohopper. PC-BSD is one alternative that’s worth ...

When you think of open-source OSes, you might think of Linux distros, but BSD-based systems have been around for a long time. Here are some of the best BSD systems that you can try that can give Linux ...

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 ...

BSD or Linux on the desktop? I was reading a review of GhostBSD 3.5 on DistroWatch today and it got me wondering if perhaps some Linux users should consider BSD as an alternative to Linux on the ...

I spend a lot of time listening to lots of folks complain that they don’t have a choice, that big, bad Microsoft has come in and made their lives a living hell and that someone should do something ...

The subject of this week’s Linux Picks and Pans is a representative of a less well-known computing platform that coexists with Linux as an open source operating system. If you thought that the Linux ...

I've decided that to harden my server, I'd like to run the Web server and DNS server in separate jails. I currently use Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody), and so I was thinking of using User-Mode Linux to ...