You can do fun things as well as programming and shell scripting. You can play games in the terminal. One collection of games ...

BSD is likely to rival Linux very soon in total number of users, and the BSD community is primping for center stage. For example, leading online BSD publication DaemonNews will launch a dead trees ...

Sure, Linux is popular, but fans of the OpenBSD operating system think they've got something better.

Among the legions of Linux users and admins, there seems to be a sort of passive curiosity about FreeBSD and other *BSDs. Like commuters on a packed train, they gaze out at a less crowded, vaguely ...

FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux.

Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered Google's Android president has ...

Much like Linux, FreeBSD offers a repository of thousands of third-party applications. Most Linux-compatible applications can also run on the operating system without any problem.

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 ...

BSD has been eclipsed by the popularity of Linux over the years. But how did BSD get started? And why did Linux overtake and surpass it? Salon has a detailed article that charts the creation of ...

I'm new to Linux. I'm looking for a distribution for servers. That means, I'm looking for rock-solid stability. Also a logical directory structure. I've read there are differences in directory ...

Begging for BSD BSD Unix has many of the advantages of Linux, but the BSD founders went through much more trouble to eliminate intellectual property issues.

Unix descendent to match Linux on features, with GNOME support expected this year, according to core developer.