Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

BSD is descended from Unix, while Linux was written as a lookalike of Unix. BSD and Linux use different kernels and package ...

Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a decade or so, there was a time when Texas Instruments was a major force in ...

That sequence of strange symbols on the Bash command line must mean something, right? We're breaking down special characters ...

Linux isn't the only open-source operating system (OS). There are also a number of Unix-like open-source BSD operating systems, including FreeBSD, that are still in active development. The FreeBSD ...

For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting the Sudo ...

Open Source Summit At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel developer Jonathan Corbet shared a long-term perspective on how and why Linux has thrived for a third of a century.