FreeBSD has given us the "it just works" experience, without sacrificing the full control. It feels and behaves mature and stable with great performance!

With over 400 volunteer devs at its helm, the FreeBSD Project is a dynamic force that puts the control in administrators' hands. Project Committer Allan Jude has been a fan of the project since 2002. He discusses the system's internal structure and the feature functionality that drew him in — contributing to its documentation and then to its development — and what he's working on now, more than a decade later.

Microsoft excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image available directly from the Azure Marketplace. This means that not only can you quickly bring-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure, but also that in the event you need technical support, Microsoft support engineers can assist.

The Cascadia Community Builder Award recognizes a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the free software movement in the Cascadia region. Michael Dexter was chosen because his work with the Portland Linux/Unix Group and the BSD community exemplified the type of unsung community-building work that is so critical to the growth of the free software movement.

A summary of the activities around porting &os; to ARM's new AArch64 (or ARM64) platform.

For years now, Linux has been all the rage. But in recent times, there have been murmurings among some veterans — long-time users — after the introduction of systemd, the init system that seems to overstep its boundaries.

&os; virtual private servers with IPv6 support are now available on the DigitalOcean platform in: San Francisco, New York, London, Amsterdam, and Singapore. DigitalOcean is also seeking &os; tutorials, for which they are offering $200 USD each.

A brief introduction to FreeBSD for curious Linux users. Covers the installation and updating process, building a basic firewall, installing binary packages, and finally installing and configuring a typical web stack with Apache, PHP, and MySQL.

The &os; Foundation is pleased to announce the receipt of a record-breaking donation from Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of WhatsApp.

Cavium, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking announced today that it is collaborating with the &os; Foundation to develop and deliver the first ARMv8 reference design and implementation of the &os; Operating System based on the ThunderX workload optimized processor family for next generation Data Center and Cloud workloads.

"Parole de Tux" is a Belgian monthly podcast which talks about news and technical topics regarding Free and Open Source Software. For the first time, this episode is dedicated to &os;. The guest, a &os; developer, sums up the history of the BSDs and their differences. He then briefly explains similarities and differences between a typical Linux distribution and &os; before moving on to the main topic: the graphics stack, and how &os; performs in this area.

SSD cloud VPS hosting solutions provider Atlantic.net has rolled out &os; to its data centers in Orlando, Dallas and Toronto.

Kirk McKusick describes the progress &os; has been making in supporting UEFI secure boot, which is scheduled for inclusion in &os; 10.1.

Kirk McKusick denies that &os; is trailing behind when it comes to security practices, asserting that over the past decade &os; has made good design and engineering choices in random(4).

Ben Laurie discusses how and why he replaced a proprietary NAS with one based on &os; and commodity hardware.

A retrospective of all the exciting developments in the BSD-family of operating systems in 2012, focusing on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Dragonfly BSD.

To discuss operating system security is to marvel at the diversity of deployed access-control models.

If Linux hadn't conquered the world, we'd all be running FreeBSD, maybe even on our desktops.

Microsoft and collaborators today announced a beta release of drivers that enable the open source FreeBSD 8.2 server operating system to run in a virtual machine (VM) using Microsoft's Hyper-V Server.

While X.Org 7.7 was only released last week, this updated set of X packages have already worked their way into FreeBSD. The FreeBSD developers request your help in testing.

This week Netflix announced their Open Connect Network as their own open CDN (Content Distribution Network), but rather than using Linux as the base for this open-source platform, they decided to use FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is wondering why are you using FreeBSD. David Chisnall of the FreeBSD project is working on updating their advocacy material regarding this leading *BSD operating system. As such, he asked on the mailing list "Why Are You Using FreeBSD?"

Colocation provider NYI announced on Friday that it has launched the East Coast mirror for The FreeBSD Foundation. "FreeBSD has been a critical component of everything we do," Phillip Koblence, VP operations, NYI said in a statement. "We look upon this launch as our way of giving back to a community whose open source projects have enabled us to craft customized solutions for our customers from the inside out."

Microsoft and its partnering companies are finalizing a project that will enable FreeBSD interoperability with Windows Server Hyper-V.

As indicated by the Q1-2012 FreeBSD Status Report, LLVM's Clang compiler is quickly replacing GCC for this popular BSD operating system. The developers are also making much progress in a GNU-free C++11 stack. For FreeBSD 10 they're aiming for Clang as the default C/C++ compiler, deprecate GCC, and to have a BSD-licensed C++ stack.

For the first three months of the 2012 calendar year, the FreeBSD project achieved a lot when it came to advancing their open operating system. Here's some of the interesting highlights from their quarterly status report.

The FreeBSD team working on X support have announced a set of X.Org updates to bring the FreeBSD package support to X.Org 7.5.2, which now includes Intel KMS support.

FreeBSD the OS of 3 of the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites in March 202.

PC-BSD offers you a fully functional desktop environment based on rock solid FreeBSD technology, which makes it the perfect operating system for your first steps with BSD?

This article provides an overview of some of the new features available in FreeBSD 9.0.

This article writes about why Paul Venezia is using FreeBSD for his servers

Michael Larabel shows how FreeBSD runs some linux programs faster than linux does.

FreeBSD the OS of top 3 most reliable hosting company sites in June 2011.

LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation (especially at the disk encryption features), system configuration and system management (including the installation of third party software packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.2.

The author looks at the status and the future of ZFS under FreeBSD. The information is based on interviews the website did with FreeBSD developer Josh Paetzel and Matt Olander from iXsystems.

LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation, system configuration and system management (including the installation of third party software packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.1.

Richard Hillesley looks at the history of FreeBSD, the BSD license, Beastie and the new features in FreeBSD 8.0.