by Cao | Feb 6, 2016 | DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux, Linux, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, Print
Michael Larabel of Phoronix recently compared three BSD systems (DragonFlyBSD, OpenBSD, and PC-BSD) against ten Linux distributions, starting with benchmarks all the way to file compression speeds. Earlier this week I posted the results of a 10-way Linux distribution...
by Cao | Jan 9, 2015 | FreeBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD
Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com has published an article rounding up the most popular BSD stories in 2014. Grab a cup of coffee and reflect on one of BSD’s biggest years: Over the past week or so I’ve shared many top ten / year-end lists of our most...
by Cao | Dec 17, 2014 | FreeBSD, OpenBSD, X vs Y
This blog post by Guillaume Kaddouch compares the security capabilities of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. OpenBSD and FreeBSD are both great OS that I admire and use. OpenBSD is considered more secure since it is its main goal, but FreeBSD can be tweaked to be pretty well...
by Cao | Aug 6, 2014 | bsdnow.tv, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Kris Moore and Allan Jude interview Brent Cook, a new OpenBSD developer, about a portable version of LibreSSL. In addition, they discuss the FreeBSD port of LibreSSL. Check out the official page here:...
by Cao | May 5, 2014 | OpenBSD
The developers of OpenBSD have just released version 5.5. This release includes the feature time_t being made available for 64 bits on all platforms, improvements to the installer, improved hardware support, and various changes to the network stack. In addition, there...
by Cao | Apr 24, 2014 | OpenBSD
The OpenBSD team has started its own fork of OpenSSL, due to the backlash from the Heartbleed bug. The new project will be called LibreSSL, and is based on OpenSSL 1.0.1g. The team has already begun working on a major clean up of the code. The following list outlines...
