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 ...

Installing FreeBSD is straightforward with a text-based installer and automatic partitioning available. Installing apps and desktop environments, like Xfce, using pkg commands is manageable and ...

FreeBSD 14.2, the latest point release of the most widely used of the BSDs, brings some new features to tempt Docker fans.… FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE appeared on Tuesday. This is the latest minor release ...

That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded to happily ...

It's a new month, and FreeBSD 14.3 Release Candidate 1 is now available for testing, bringing some useful updates you might find handy, especially if you're into containers. A very welcome development ...

FreeBSD, the free operating system that enjoys a growing and extremely loyal following, is nearing a code freeze for its most significant update in years. Scott Long, the software engineer leading the ...

In the wake of growing supply chain attacks, the FreeBSD developers are relying on a transparent build concept in the form of Zero-Trust Builds. The approach builds on the established Reproducible ...

WhatsApp, the instant messaging service bought by Facebook last year for $19 billion (£13 billion), now has 900 million monthly users globally. The cofounders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, don't often ...

This morning, WireGuard founding developer Jason Donenfeld announced a working, in-kernel implementation of his WireGuard VPN protocol for the FreeBSD 13 kernel. This is great news for BSD folks—and ...

At first glance, Matthew Macy seemed like a perfectly reasonable choice to port WireGuard into the FreeBSD kernel. WireGuard is an encrypted point-to-point tunneling protocol, part of what most people ...

That iPad in your hand? It feels like the most modern of computers. But like the iPhone and the Macintosh, the Apple tablet revolves around a core piece of software that can trace its roots all the ...