People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating ...

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.

What the discontinuation of the FreeBSD base means for TrueNAS As iXsystems itself states, there were roughly the same number of FreeBSD/CORE and Linux/SCALE users at the end of 2024, with SCALE ...

Allows the use of familiar Debian utilities while benefiting from the performance and features of FreeBSD. This means that users can install Debian software, use Debian’s system management tools, and ...

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Orbitiny 0.01 News: Gentoo offers ready-to-go disk images, elementary OS invites feature ...

Facebook is reportedly removing posts which share links to DistroWatch Other mentions of Linux and open-source OSs also affected Meta says this was an "error" and that it's been fixed Some posts ...

interlock.elf: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=c7f876806bf4d3ccafbf2252e77c2a7546c301e6, for FreeBSD 10.4, FreeBSD-style, not stripped ...

apple silicon Asahi Linux distro can now run AAA games like Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 on Apple Silicon chips Performance in complex titles isn't exactly fast, but things will improve over time ...

Also: Garuda KDE Dr460nized might be the coolest-looking Linux distro Over the years, I've toyed with FreeBSD, but it has received a mere fraction of my attention (compared to Linux).

So I snagged the FreeBSD 13.2 USB stick file from the torrent, and wrote it to a USB Flash drive. Out with the Hackaday test PC, and on with the show. Continue reading → ...

Version 251 of the controversial systemd Linux init system is here, and you can expect it to feature in the next version of your preferred distro. The unified system and service manager for Linux ...