March 9th: The harddrive holding the torrent files and the RSS feeds has died on us around March 1st. A new one is on the way. Please standby while we put services back online (this will take a few days as we are waiting for the new hard-drive).
March 12th: Restoration is moving along. Most of the software and games have been updated while a few distributions are good to go. We are expecting the new hard-drive tomorrow and we will proceed to upgrading the distributions then.
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FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
It has similarities with Linux, with two major differences in scope and licensing. FreeBSD maintains a complete system (i.e. the project delivers a kernel, device drivers, userland utilities, and documentation), as opposed to Linux only delivering a kernel and drivers, and relying on third-parties for system software. Its source code is generally released under a permissive BSD license, as opposed to the copyleft GPL used by Linux.
New Feature: Hybrid Torrents
Hybrid torrents support the BitTorrent V1 and V2 protocol. Its support is not well spread out yet so we recommend that you still use v1 (aka the "torrent" column).