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, ...

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 ...

What is the difference between them? I will probably get one of them, so I was just wondering what the difference was so I could get the best one.<P>Thanks.<P>edit:<P>My soundcard requires ALSA ...

Mac OS X vulnerability: proof of concept released A widespread security vulnerability disclosed eight months ago is apparently still lurking in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. A pair of security researchers ...

FreeBSD is one of the operating systems derived from the BSD which was developed at the University of California in Berkeley. Along with two others that have the same roots — OpenBSD and NetBSD — ...

FreeBSD has been somewhat weak in the WiFi stack. With FreeBSD 14.3 and considering the upcoming FreeBSD 15, the developers are focusing precisely on this. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has ...

A licensing dispute causes an important software package to be removed from the OpenBSD version of Unix and leads to a spat between the programmers in charge. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Severe vulnerabilities have been discovered in popular Linux and Unix systems that can be used to blow apart barriers to root powers, researchers have discovered. According to security firm Qualys, ...

COMMENTARY-- Some of you may think there is only one contemporary Unix alternative to Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac OS: Linux. This, however, is a misapprehension. While Linux is definitely the ...

Apple's Grand Central Dispatch technology, which debuted in Snow Leopard as a mechanism for optimizing parallelism across multiple cores and processors, has now been ported to FreeBSD. Apple publicly ...