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November 2017

June 2016

  • FreeBSD Project: Under the Hood
    HostingAdvice.com, Alexandra Leslie
    With over 400 volunteer devs at its helm, the FreeBSD Project is a dynamic force that puts the control in administrators' hands. Project Committer Allan Jude has been a fan of the project since 2002. He discusses the system's internal structure and the feature functionality that drew him in — contributing to its documentation and then to its development — and what he's working on now, more than a decade later.

  • FreeBSD now available in Azure Marketplace
    Microsoft Azure Blog, Jason Anderson
    Microsoft excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image available directly from the Azure Marketplace. This means that not only can you quickly bring-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure, but also that in the event you need technical support, Microsoft support engineers can assist.

October 2015

July 2015

March 2015

  • Running FreeBSD on the server: a sysadmin speaks
    iTWire, Sam Varghese
    For years now, Linux has been all the rage. But in recent times, there have been murmurings among some veterans — long-time users — after the introduction of systemd, the init system that seems to overstep its boundaries.

January 2015

December 2014

  • Get started with FreeBSD: A brief intro for Linux users
    InfoWorld, Paul Venezia
    A brief introduction to FreeBSD for curious Linux users. Covers the installation and updating process, building a basic firewall, installing binary packages, and finally installing and configuring a typical web stack with Apache, PHP, and MySQL.

November 2014

October 2014

  • Cavium to Sponsor FreeBSD ARMv8 Based Implementation
    PR Newswire, Cavium, Inc.
    Cavium, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking announced today that it is collaborating with the FreeBSD Foundation to develop and deliver the first ARMv8 reference design and implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System based on the ThunderX workload optimized processor family for next generation Data Center and Cloud workloads.

September 2014

  • Parole de Tux : Tux et FreeBSD [french]
    Captain Posix, Captain Posix
    "Parole de Tux" is a Belgian monthly podcast which talks about news and technical topics regarding Free and Open Source Software. For the first time, this episode is dedicated to FreeBSD. The guest, a FreeBSD developer, sums up the history of the BSDs and their differences. He then briefly explains similarities and differences between a typical Linux distribution and FreeBSD before moving on to the main topic: the graphics stack, and how FreeBSD performs in this area.

  • Atlantic.Net Announces SSD-based FreeBSD VPS Services
    Talkin' Cloud, Chris Talbot
    SSD cloud VPS hosting solutions provider Atlantic.net has rolled out FreeBSD to its data centers in Orlando, Dallas and Toronto.

January 2014

June 2013

February 2013

  • 2012 - A BSD Year in Retrospective
    OSnews, Julian Djamil
    A retrospective of all the exciting developments in the BSD-family of operating systems in 2012, focusing on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Dragonfly BSD.

January 2013

November 2012

August 2012

June 2012

May 2012

  • Why Should You Use FreeBSD? Here's Some Reasons
    phoronix, Michael Larabel
    FreeBSD is wondering why are you using FreeBSD. David Chisnall of the FreeBSD project is working on updating their advocacy material regarding this leading *BSD operating system. As such, he asked on the mailing list "Why Are You Using FreeBSD?"

  • Colocation Provider NYI Launches East Coast Mirror for FreeBSD Foundation
    The WHIR, Nicole Henderson
    Colocation provider NYI announced on Friday that it has launched the East Coast mirror for The FreeBSD Foundation. "FreeBSD has been a critical component of everything we do," Phillip Koblence, VP operations, NYI said in a statement. "We look upon this launch as our way of giving back to a community whose open source projects have enabled us to craft customized solutions for our customers from the inside out."

  • FreeBSD and Microsoft Hyper-V Interoperability Expected This Summer
    Redmondmag, Kurt Mackie
    Microsoft and its partnering companies are finalizing a project that will enable FreeBSD interoperability with Windows Server Hyper-V.

  • FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC
    phoronix, Michael Larabel
    As indicated by the Q1-2012 FreeBSD Status Report, LLVM's Clang compiler is quickly replacing GCC for this popular BSD operating system. The developers are also making much progress in a GNU-free C++11 stack. For FreeBSD 10 they're aiming for Clang as the default C/C++ compiler, deprecate GCC, and to have a BSD-licensed C++ stack.

  • FreeBSD Achieved A Lot In Q1'2012
    phoronix, Michael Larabel
    For the first three months of the 2012 calendar year, the FreeBSD project achieved a lot when it came to advancing their open operating system. Here's some of the interesting highlights from their quarterly status report.

April 2012

March 2012

February 2012

January 2012

November 2011

September 2011

July 2011

March 2011

  • PC-BSD 8.2 review
    LinuxBSDos.com, LinuxBSDos.com
    LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation (especially at the disk encryption features), system configuration and system management (including the installation of third party software packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.2.

February 2011

  • FreeBSD 8.2 expands ZFS support
    Datamation.com, Sean Michael Kerner
    The author looks at the status and the future of ZFS under FreeBSD. The information is based on interviews the website did with FreeBSD developer Josh Paetzel and Matt Olander from iXsystems.

August 2010

  • PC-BSD 8.1 review
    LinuxBSDos.com, LinuxBSDos.com
    LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation, system configuration and system management (including the installation of third party software packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.1.

February 2010

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