by Cao | Feb 6, 2019 | Benchmarking, DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux, TrueOS
Phoronix has done a plethora of benchmarking tests highlighting performance differences between FreeBSD, Linux, TrueOS, DragonflyBSD. The author measures things like ZFS on FreeBSD vs ZFS on Linux and HAMMER2, networking performance, and others. Also, the Phoronix...
by Cao | Dec 24, 2018 | FreeBSD vs Linux
User Mehedi Hasan lists 20 things that other users of either FreeBSD or Linux should know about the respective open-source operating systems. Hasan breaks it down with comparisons from the jargons, the history, development, licenses, packages, shell, all the way to...
by Cao | Nov 20, 2018 | FreeBSD vs Linux, Network
User Matteo Croce compares networking on both Linux and FreeBSD on a Dell PowerEdge server. He tests out a software bridge / packet rate, routing, and firewall rules. See the link below for a detailed report of the Linux and FreeBSD network tests. Incipit I work on...
by Cao | Oct 20, 2018 | FreeBSD vs Linux, Programming
User shlomif ported several applications over to FreeBSD and reflects on his experience. He lists said projects, mentions some comparisons with Linux, GNU make, grep, and other things. I set up a local FreeBSD VirtualBox VM to test something, and it seems to work very...
by Cao | Oct 20, 2018 | FreeBSD vs Linux, Tutorial
User Chris Kennedy walks us through configuring his own FreeBSD with network, jails, and setting up Jenkins. Check out the link below to see the details of his journey diving into FreeBSD after spending time with Linux. FreeBSD is a robust operating system that has...
by Cao | Oct 5, 2018 | FreeBSD vs Linux, Tutorial
Jesse Smith of DistroWatch discusses dual-booting FreeBSD and Ubuntu in this brief walkthrough. There are many reasons why one would want to use both operating systems on the same computer as they serve different tasks. See the guide below for the full set of...
