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 ...

In the past, many SMBs were content to let their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) handle e-mail services. But now they're interested in running mail servers onsite, due to the widespread adoption of ...

Want to run something other than Linux on a ARM 64-bit server? Soon you can: a small software company has shown FreeBSD running on a 96-core server. Semihalf, which is based in Poland, demonstrated a ...

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.

What apps is this server running? I've run many small FreeBSD servers (serving e-mail, http, samba, plus running an ipf firewall/gateway) on Pentium 133s with 64 MB RAM and a 192 MB swap file (which ...

A demonstration of Netflix's video streaming technology was held during the EuroBSD conference. That in and of itself isn't significant, but the company's optimizations in order to achieve 400 Gbit/s ...

An intrusion was recently detected into two machines in the FreeBSD infrastructure; and the attack was facilitated with the help of a stolen SSH authentication key and login credentials. Following ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Running FreeBSD on the server: a sysadmin speaks This part of the system is distributed in releases. Minor releases are usually every six months or so with a major release approximately every 2 years.