Archive for the 'FreeBSD' Category

FreeBSD more Popular than Linux

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Google has recently released Google Trends. Google Trends compares different search terms’ usage over time. After reading a post on MDLog about Linux distribution trends I became curious about FreeBSD’s numbers in such a comparison.
So I marched over to distrowatch.com and checked out their Top 10 Linux distributions. They are: […]

on Open Source Patch Management

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Today, Dana Blankenhorn on ZD.net opines about the need for open source patch management. More specifically he talks about notifications of vulnerabilities. Well the best kept secrets in open source, the BSDs handle this just fine in my opinion.
Being a FreeBSD user, I have to say that portaudit and the FreeBSD Security […]