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 FreeBSD security team has rushed out a temporary patch to cover a local root vulnerability that exposes users to code execution attacks. The patch follows the public release of exploit code on the ...

The health of the global Internet and digital infrastructure relies heavily on volunteer-maintained open source projects. Various organizations and initiatives now provide funding to make security ...

Continuing its support of open-source operating systems, the U.S. Department of Defense granted $1.2 million to a community project aimed at adding advanced security features to FreeBSD, an ...

Ubiquiti released a new security bulletin detailing fixes for six security issues, including one rated 9.1 (critical) and one scoring a perfect 10.0 on the CVE risk scale. The vulnerabilities range ...

FreeBSD 15.1 benefits from the AI hype, improves support for notebooks, expands hardware drivers, and enhances virtualization and networking. FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE focuses primarily on security, ...

Avalanche Technology Group, the Australian/New Zealand distributor of AVG security software, today announced several new versions of the AVG antivirus offerings for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD open source ...

For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have ...