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.
Despite spending most of my time buried under my Proxmox nodes and TrueNAS storage rig, I love tinkering with other virtualization platforms, container runtimes, and NAS-centric distros in my spare ...
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 ...
Microsoft and its partnering companies are finalizing a project that will enable FreeBSD interoperability with Windows Server Hyper-V. News about the project, which started in October, was announced ...
intranet applications on for group use. I lobbied over a year to get this chance to introduce *nix into my work area. Needless to say, it's an opportunity to show that non-Dell boxes run just fine and ...
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 ...
FreeBSD has a reputation for being difficult, but using it as a daily driver showed me why that reputation misses the point.
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.