Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and op… ...

We reported on the fresh investment in FreeBSD last September. The investment is going into the FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project, and it's starting to bear fruit. The mid-2025 ...

Chimera Linux is unique for using the BSD command set, Wayland, LLVM, Dinit, Pipewire, and not systemd. Installation on ...

FreeBSD doesn’t come with drivers out of the box in the way that a full-featured Linux distro does, so if you have something unusual then it’s up to you to find and install a driver.

FreeBSD has a reputation as a great server OS, but also as a difficult-to-install desktop. I decided to put that theory to the test with a modern version of FreeBSD in 2025.

It's a new month, and FreeBSD 14.3 Release Candidate 1 is now available for testing, bringing some useful updates you might find handy, especially if you're into containers.

With FreeBSD 14.3, the developers have added a new package repository for kernel modules. In the future, kernel modules such as drm-kmod will be compiled cleanly from the respective release.

In February 2020, FreeBSD developer Matt Macy pushed the first WireGuard-related commit to FreeBSD. Macy's work was directly commissioned by Netgate, the company behind the BSD-based pfSense ...

This went over very poorly with Netgate, which sponsored Macy's work. Netgate had already taken Macy's beta code from a FreeBSD 13 release candidate and placed it into production in pfSense's 2.5. ...

Microsoft has released FreeBSD 10.3 as a "ready made" VM image on the Azure marketplace. The release will make it easier for customers to spin-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure and it means that customers ...