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 ...

Microsoft and collaborators today announced a beta release of drivers that enable the open source FreeBSD 8.2 server operating system to run in a virtual machine (VM) using Microsoft's Hyper-V Server.

Last year whenever people asked me what to use when building a home server, I'd tell them to use Linux or FreeBSD because there was absolutely nothing from Microsoft under a few hundred dollars. There ...

In the past, many SMBs were content to let their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) handle e-mail services. But now they're interested in running mail servers onsite, due to the widespread adoption of ...

FreeBSD 15 isn’t flashy, but that is exactly why it works. Its stability, structure, and predictability make boring feel ...

Want to run something other than Linux on a ARM 64-bit server? Soon you can: a small software company has shown FreeBSD running on a 96-core server. Semihalf, which is based in Poland, demonstrated a ...

The server didn't reboot, but to be on the safe side i did so. Now it's up and running and in 15 minutes the server consumed over 80% of the memory. The SWAP space is now 3% occupied. An additional ...

Running FreeBSD on the server: a sysadmin speaks This 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.