We reported on the fresh investment in FreeBSD last September. The investment is going into the FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop ...

Take FreeBSD, for example. In a recent [GNULectures] video, we get to see a user’s attempt to switch from desktop Linux to desktop FreeBSD.

Thanks a lot, I wasn't starting the windowmanager before loading xfce, I thought they were bundled together. I'll try it as soon as I can, and get back to you if it works.

Since my bare-metal setup is essentially a PC with 8-9 year-old components, I was pleasantly surprised that the FreeBSD distribution felt as responsive as a lightweight Linux distro.

The PS4, which is scheduled to be released in November at the delightful price of $400, appears to run an operating system called Orbis OS, which is a modified version of FreeBSD 9.0. FreeBSD is a ...

There are BSD distributions such as GhostBSD which use FreeBSD as its core, but it’s a far less common word in this context. So I snagged the FreeBSD 13.2 USB stick file from the torrent, and ...

Samsung Galaxy S9 with /e/ OS Here’s a roundup of recent open source phone news. Potabi will be a smartphone OS built on top of FreeBSD [@Fivnex] There are a growing number of Linux ...

Just as a reminder, FreeBSD 14.3 is mainly focused on polish and stability (it's a point release, after all), with the bigger changes expected in FreeBSD 15.0 later in 2025.

Xfce–which is reportedly a favorite of Linux creator Linus Torvalds himself–has now reached version 4.10, and this latest release brings some compelling new features to the table.