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FreeBSD in the Press

If you know of any news stories featuring FreeBSD that we have not listed here, please send details to www@FreeBSD.org so that we can include them.

April 2012

• FreeBSD Gets A New X.Org With Intel KMS
  phoronix, Michael Larabel
  The FreeBSD team working on X support have announced a set of X.Org updates to bring the FreeBSD package support to X.Org 7.5.2, which now includes Intel KMS support.

March 2012

• Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in March 2012
  Netcraft Ltd., Netcraft
  FreeBSD the OS of 3 of the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites in March 202.

February 2012

• PC-BSD 9 review ? to FreeBSD what Ubuntu is to Debian
  Linux User & Developer, Koen Vervloesem
  PC-BSD offers you a fully functional desktop environment based on rock solid FreeBSD technology, which makes it the perfect operating system for your first steps with BSD?

January 2012

• [Review] FreeBSD 9.0
  linuxconfig.net, linuxconfig.net
  This article provides an overview of some of the new features available in FreeBSD 9.0.

November 2011

• Why aren't you using FreeBSD?
  Infoworld, Paul Venezia
  This article writes about why Paul Venezia is using FreeBSD for his servers

September 2011

• FreeBSD: A Faster Platform For Linux Gaming Than Linux?
  Phoronix,
  Michael Larabel shows how FreeBSD runs some linux programs faster than linux does.

July 2011

• Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in June 2011
  Netcraft Ltd., Jennifer Cownie
  FreeBSD the OS of top 3 most reliable hosting company sites in June 2011.

March 2011

• PC-BSD 8.2 review
  LinuxBSDos.com, LinuxBSDos.com
  LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation (especially at the disk encryption features), system configuration and system management (including the installation of third party software packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.2.

February 2011

• FreeBSD 8.2 expands ZFS support
  Datamation.com, Sean Michael Kerner
  The author looks at the status and the future of ZFS under FreeBSD. The information is based on interviews the website did with FreeBSD developer Josh Paetzel and Matt Olander from iXsystems.

August 2010

• PC-BSD 8.1 review
  LinuxBSDos.com, LinuxBSDos.com
  LinuxBSDos.com looks at the installation, system configuration and system management (including the installation of third party software packages via PC-BSD's PBI system) of PC-BSD 8.1.

February 2010

• Health Check: FreeBSD - The unknown giant
  The H, Richard Hillesley
  Richard Hillesley looks at the history of FreeBSD, the BSD license, Beastie and the new features in FreeBSD 8.0.

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