Neowin News Feed for: Freebsd

You can totally install FreeBSD on these laptops without issues, claims OS maintainer

Usama Jawad — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:46:02 +0000

A new initiative highlights which laptops can run FreeBSD without issues, indicating broader hardware support than many might expect. Read more...

FreeBSD 14.3 release candidate ships with Docker-ready images and key fixes

David Uzondu — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:28:02 +0000

The first release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now out, bringing OCI images to Docker Hub and GitHub, along with various bug fixes. Read more...

FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 ships with KDE Plasma 6 and general improvements

David Uzondu — Sat, 17 May 2025 15:10:01 +0000

FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 has just dropped, and it brings support for the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment and fixes several issues. Read more...

Ventoy 1.0.97 is out with FreeBSD 14.0 support and boot fixes

Taras Buria — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:48:01 +0000

Ventoy, a third-party app for creating bootable USB drives, has been updated to version 1.0.97. The latest release adds FreeBSD support, fixes boot issues, and resolves other bugs. Read more...

VMware Workstation 17.0 Pro now live with Windows 11 guest OS and virtual TPM 2.0 support

Usama Jawad — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:54:01 +0000

Organizations, enthusiasts, and developers might be pleased to know that VMware Workstation Pro now officially supports Windows 11 via a virtual TPM 2.0 device present in version 17.0 of the product. Read more...

Microsoft publishes its own FreeBSD distro... kind of

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 08:18:01 +0000

Microsoft has taken perhaps the ultimate step in showing its love for open software, as the company has published its own image of FreeBSD. However, the image is designed for Azure cloud VMs. Read more...

FreeBSD on Xbox!

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:49:53 +0000

In an email to the FreeBSD Hackers mailing list, Rink P.W. Springer reports success in porting FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 to the XBox game platform: Over the last 2 weeks, I... Read more...

FreeBSD 6.0 to be Released in August

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:31:47 +0000

The timetable, made known last year, for the release of the Version 6.0 of the free Unix variant FreeBSD has been corroborated of late. As of today the scope of functions is no longer to... Read more...

FreeBSD 5.3 Final

Sun, 07 Nov 2004 16:07:52 +0000

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of... Read more...

FreeBSD 4.8 Released

Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:15:05 +0000

I am happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE in October 2002, we have made conservative updates to a number of software... Read more...

FreeBSD 5.0 Released

Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:26:48 +0000

After three years and many revisions, the fifth incarnation of FreeBSD will be available this weekend. Early Friday morning, volunteers at FreeBSD.org began distributing the popular and free version of the UNIX operating system to... Read more...