by iXsystems | Apr 24, 2009 | FreeBSD vs Linux, PC-BSD, X vs Y
The well-know bench marking website Phoronix has carried out a benchmark run between Kubuntu 9.04 and PC-BSD 7.1 (20/04/2009) Earlier this month PC-BSD 7.1 was released, which is based upon the FreeBSD 7.1 stable release, but of course with the extra packages and...
by iXsystems | Apr 20, 2009 | FreeBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux, X vs Y
Great Bay Software has announced (Press Release) that it has migrated their the OS of their appliances from Linux to FreeBSD. The decision was motivated by FreeBSD’s license, stability and version control. … In addition, the Great Bay has changed to...
by iXsystems | Apr 7, 2009 | FreeBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux, X vs Y
The open-source Debian operating system (Linux) gained support for the FreeBSD kernel last weekend (unstable / experimental), allowing users to run the same operating system on two different software cores. The project was announced in a message to the Debian...
by iXsystems | Mar 24, 2009 | FreeBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux, X vs Y
As of 21 March 2009 Linsux.org is no longer hosted on Linux, but proudly powered by FreeBSD. Announcement
by iXsystems | Jan 27, 2009 | FreeBSD, FreeBSD vs Linux, X vs Y
Geekmalaya has a post with 18 points on why the writer thinks FreeBSD is better than Linux. BSD license allows users/companies to modify a program’s source code and not to release changes to the public BSD has the so-called “core system” (without packages) On BSD...
by iXsystems | Jan 21, 2009 | FreeBSD vs Linux, X vs Y
The discussion on GPL vs BSD licensing will probably never end, unless one or both licenses cease to exist. There’s an interesting post about the GPL license and BSD license, and the writer’s suggests that the public domain license is the license to be...
