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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD, one of the first fully functional and free Unix clones on affordable home-class hardware, and has since continuously been the most commonly used BSD-derived operating system.

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Default user interface
Unix shells: sh or tcsh (user-selectable) csh (in the past)
Developer
The FreeBSD Project
Initial release
1 November 1993; 32 years ago (1993-11-01)
Kernel type
Monolithic with dynamically loadable modules
Latest release
15.1 (16 June 2026; 2 months ago (2026-06-16)) [±] 14.4 (10 March 2026; 5 months ago (2026-03-10)) [±]
License
FreeBSD License, FreeBSD Documentation License

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FreeBSD

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Edges244
Triples348
Avg. degree1.99
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FreeBSD

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related to Creation · 25
FreeBSD → AT, BSD, By, CD-ROM, David Greenman, FreeBSD-related, FTP, Greg Lehey, In, Intel, Jordan Hubbard, June, Lynne Jolitz, Nate Williams, Net-2, November, On, Rod Grimes, The, The Complete FreeBSD
related to Storage · 22
FreeBSD → Both GBDE, BSD, BSDs, Filesystem, From, GBDE, Geli, GEOM, However, OpenZFS, Oracle, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, Poul-Henning Kamp, RAID, Snapshots, Soft, Sun, Sun Microsystems, The, This
related to License · 21
FreeBSD → All, April, Atheros HAL, Beerware, BSD, BSD-licensed LLVM/Clang, CDDL, ClangBSD, Free Software, Free Software Foundation, GNU, GNU GPL, GPL, ISC, LGPL, Open Source, Open Source Initiative, Some, The, There
related to Virtualization · 19
FreeBSD → Amazon EC2 AMI, BSDCan, Dom0, DomU, For, Illumos, KVM, Linux, LXC, Microsoft Windows, Neel Natu, OpenBSD, Other, Peter Grehan, Since FreeBSD, Solaris Zones, Support, The, Xen
related to Logo · 17
FreeBSD → Also, Beastie, Bell Labs, BSD, BSD Daemon, For, FreeBSD's, However, In, John Lasseter, Lasseter, Mike O'Brien, More, Phil Foglio, Several FreeBSD-specific, Tatsumi Hosokawa, Unix T-shirts
related to Networking · 16
FreeBSD → AppleTalk, As, CARP, Common Address Redundancy Protocol, FreeBSD's TCP/IP, IP, IPSec, IPv6, IPX, KAME, OpenBSD, Prior, SCTP, TCP/IP, The IPv6, Wi-Fi
related to Development · 15
FreeBSD → AsiaBSDCon, BSD-derived, BSDCan, BSDcon, Canada, EuroBSDCon, Europe, FreeBSD-specific, In, Internet, Japan, NetBSD, OpenBSD, The, USENIX
related to Use cases · 15
FreeBSD → As, Chromium, DNS, Firefox, Fluxbox, FTP, GNOME, KDE, Lumina, Major, Openbox, The, Wayland, Window System, Xfce
related to Current situation · 14
FreeBSD → Apple's, Both, Certain, FlightAware, IBM, IT, Juniper Networks, NetApp, Netflix, Nintendo Switch, Nokia, PlayStation, Today, WhatsApp
related to Kernel · 14
FreeBSD → Although FreeBSD's, BSD-derivatives, Different, FreeBSD's, It, Kernel, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SMP, SMT, The, The FreeBSD, This, ULE

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FreeBSDDefault user interfaceUnix shells: sh or tcsh (user-selectable) csh (in the past)1.00infobox
FreeBSDDeveloperThe FreeBSD Project1.00infobox
FreeBSDInitial release1 November 1993; 32 years ago (1993-11-01)1.00infobox
FreeBSDKernel typeMonolithic with dynamically loadable modules1.00infobox
FreeBSDLatest release15.1 (16 June 2026; 2 months ago (2026-06-16)) [±] 14.4 (10 March 2026; 5 months ago (2026-03-10)) [±]1.00infobox
FreeBSDLicenseFreeBSD License, FreeBSD Documentation License1.00infobox
FreeBSDMarketing targetServers, workstations, embedded systems, network firewalls1.00infobox
FreeBSDOfficial websitewww.freebsd.org1.00infobox
FreeBSDOS familyUnix-like (BSD)1.00infobox
FreeBSDPackage managerpkg1.00infobox
FreeBSDRepositorycgit.freebsd.org1.00infobox
FreeBSDSource modelOpen source1.00infobox
FreeBSDSupported platformsTier 1: 64-bit x86 (amd64), 64-bit ARM (originally only 32-bit x86, i386, 32-bit x86 now with tier 2 support and additionally 64-bit RISC-V, 32-bit ARMv7, 64-bit PowerPC; previo…1.00infobox
FreeBSDUserlandBSD1.00infobox
FreeBSDWorking stateCurrent1.00infobox
FreeBSDWritten inC (C11)1.00infobox
FreeBSDis afree and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution0.90text

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