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Photo by crypto, via Flickr. FreeBSD, a popular open-source Unix operating system with roots stretching back to the 1970s, is now available through the Azure Marketplace as a virtual-machine image for ...

Running FreeBSD on the server: a sysadmin speaksThis part of the system is distributed in releases. Minor releases are usually every six months or so with a major release approximately every 2 years.