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.

Not a whole lot of exciting stuff since 8.0, but for anyone waiting for it to not be a "dot zero" release, you can now likely leave 7.x or 6.x behind. Some of the new 8.x stuff includes network ...

Microsoft released a beta version of Windows Hyper-V Server with drivers that enable the open source FreeBSD 8.2 server operating system to run in a virtual machine. The beta isn't intended for use in ...

Linux may not yet enjoy the widespread recognition that Windows does, but there’s no denying its popularity on servers, its growing use on desktops, or its ubiquity in the mobile world in the form of ...

Auch wenn die offizielle Web-Seite des FreeBSD-Projekts noch keinen Hinweis darauf liefert: Die Entwickler haben rund zwei Monate nach Veröffentlichung des Release Candidate die Version 8.0 ihres ...

Among the legions of Linux users and admins, there seems to be a sort of passive curiosity about FreeBSD and other *BSDs. Like commuters on a packed train, they gaze out at a less crowded, vaguely ...

In FreeBSD, disks show up as /dev/adXX. I am seeing drive TIMEOUT messages when writing to a single-drive that uses ZFS. zpool status reports "No known data errors". I'm only writing at about 1MB/s ...

FreeBSD is a free, fast, stable, feature-rich operating system. If you've never looked into it before, you should Here I sit, watching a freshly installed FreeBSD box run through cvsup on all ports, ...

FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet. FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux. You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I ...