Linux and BSD variants that employ the popular X.Org Server package --almost all do-- are vulnerable to a new vulnerability disclosed on Thursday. The vulnerability allows an attacker with limited ...

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

Last month I started a series in which I try out different operating systems with the aim of using them for my everyday work, and my pick was Slackware 15, the latest version of the first Linux distro ...

Back in mid-2016, I was fighting with my Ubuntu-LTS-based server. Samba kept crashing and I was naive and couldn't figure out where to look to figure out what was going on. A longtime internet friend ...

When you think of open-source OSes, you might think of Linux distros, but BSD-based systems have been around for a long time. Here are some of the best BSD systems that you can try that can give Linux ...

The subject of this week’s Linux Picks and Pans is a representative of a less well-known computing platform that coexists with Linux as an open source operating system. If you thought that the Linux ...

Exploit broker Zerodium is offering rewards of up to $500,000 for zero-days in UNIX-based operating systems like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, but also for Linux distros such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, ...