A Unix developer has discovered and fixed a filesystem bug in Berkeley Software Distribution, a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system, discovering in the process that the bug was at ...

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Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Photo by crypto, via Flickr. FreeBSD, a popular open-source Unix operating system with roots stretching back to the 1970s, is now available through the Azure Marketplace as a virtual-machine image for ...

Linux isn't the only open-source operating system (OS). There are also a number of Unix-like open-source BSD operating systems, including FreeBSD, that are still in active development. The FreeBSD ...

The security team for the open-source FreeBSD operating system has rushed out a patch for a zero-day local root vulnerability. The zero-day was published on the Full Disclosure mailing list on Monday, ...

This month’s Linux distro review isn’t of a Linux distribution at all—instead, we’re taking a look at FreeBSD, the original gangster of free Unix-like operating systems. Before we get started, I’d ...

Wind River Systems plans to develop an embedded version of the BSD/OS operating system that it bought in mid April (see separate story). Before selling its software to Wind River, BSDi Software began ...

I thought that for most Linux/BSD operating systems that code was fairly portable. So that something I downloaded and compiled fine on a Slackware box for instance would also compile on a BSD ...

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The BSD libc library was updated recently to address ...