When I began work on the FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE review last week, it didn’t take long to figure out that the desktop portion wasn’t going very smoothly. I think it’s important for BSD-curious users to ...

GhostBSD offers a user-friendly live FreeBSD desktop with a choice of MATE, XFCE, and a new Mac-like Gershwin desktop, aiming to broaden BSD to mainstream users and developers. Live images need at ...

BSD, or Berkeley Software Distribution (aka Berkeley Standard Distribution) is a discontinued operating system that was based on Research Unix. Originally called Berkeley UNIX, BSD was first developed ...

GhostBSD 25.02 is a fully configured FreeBSD including MATE or Xfce desktop. With the new Gershwin Desktop Environment, the path leads to macOS look and feel. The development team around Eric Turgeon ...

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of 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 ...

Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year of the Linux Desktop in 1999 that ...

FreeBSD-derived GhostBSD welcomes users directly into a full desktop experience.