• release of FreeBSD 2, 2.2.8-RELEASE, was announced on 29 November 1998. FreeBSD 2.0 was the first version of FreeBSD to be claimed legally free of AT&T Unix...
    56 KB (3,334 words) - 12:48, 12 July 2025
  • mechanism is an implementation of FreeBSD's OS-level virtualisation that allows system administrators to partition a FreeBSD-derived computer system into several...
    9 KB (965 words) - 16:11, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for OpenBSD
    surveyed 4330 individual BSD users, showing that 32.8% used OpenBSD, behind FreeBSD with 77%, ahead of NetBSD with 16.3% and DragonFly BSD with 2.6%. However...
    131 KB (8,638 words) - 14:17, 2 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for FreeBSD
    FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed...
    110 KB (8,094 words) - 22:31, 13 July 2025
  • downloaded from the main FreeBSD Package Repository (pkg.freebsd.org), but if there are any troubles after updating packages, previous version of packages cannot...
    8 KB (895 words) - 02:33, 30 January 2025
  • derived from BSD include multiuser access, TCP/IP networking, and memory protection. Although it was originally marketed as simply "version 10" of Mac OS...
    57 KB (6,820 words) - 18:08, 28 June 2025
  • is composed of code derived from NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD and other BSD operating systems, Mach, and other free software projects' code, as well as code developed...
    46 KB (2,765 words) - 14:55, 30 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for BSD Daemon
    image of the BSD Daemon by Felix Lee appeared in the startup menu of FreeBSD version 5.x and can still be set as startup image in later versions. It is also...
    13 KB (1,460 words) - 20:09, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Debian version history
    provided in the unstable distribution. This release did not feature the FreeBSD port, although much work on the port had been done to make it qualify it...
    129 KB (10,935 words) - 20:20, 14 July 2025
  • version Preview version Future version Free and open-source software portal Timeline of web browsers History of free and open-source software History...
    233 KB (25,632 words) - 01:17, 1 July 2025
  • Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variant options. The three most notable descendants in current use are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, which are all...
    48 KB (3,826 words) - 15:24, 27 May 2025
  • original BSD became obsolete, the term "BSD" came to refer primarily to its open-source descendants, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD. BSD-derived...
    26 KB (2,885 words) - 15:33, 15 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for DragonFly BSD
    DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early...
    36 KB (2,693 words) - 17:52, 17 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for 386BSD
    386BSD (redirect from 386/BSD)
    users forking it into the FreeBSD project as well as the separate NetBSD, both of which continue to this day; 386BSD's version 1.0 was released in 1994...
    17 KB (1,800 words) - 00:25, 16 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for MidnightBSD
    MidnightBSD is a free Unix-Like, desktop-oriented operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 6.1, and periodically updated with code and drivers...
    6 KB (658 words) - 14:57, 27 May 2025
  • preferred FreeNAS to remain on BSD, resulting in Theile agreeing to fork FreeNAS and ultimately creating OpenMediaVault. FreeNAS would remain on FreeBSD with...
    14 KB (783 words) - 17:25, 30 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for GhostBSD
    freedom and to be free of charge. Prior to GhostBSD 18.10, the project was based on FreeBSD. In May 2018 it was announced that future versions of the operating...
    14 KB (800 words) - 17:31, 28 May 2025
  • BSD variants in the general market. A selection of significant Unix versions and Unix-like operating systems that descend from BSD includes: FreeBSD,...
    29 KB (3,629 words) - 14:55, 4 July 2025
  • Montague, Bruce (2013-11-13). "Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project". FreeBSD. Retrieved 2015-11-28. 9. GPL Advantages and Disadvantages...
    24 KB (2,535 words) - 04:40, 3 June 2025
  • Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD. The FreeSWITCH project was initially announced in January 2006 and the first version was officially released in May...
    7 KB (600 words) - 07:35, 6 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Free-software license
    by the GPL terms cannot be included in the kernel or "runtime" of OpenBSD "FreeBSD der unbekannte Riese" (in German). 30 August 2023. "terms of use". Content...
    57 KB (6,430 words) - 13:37, 11 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Version 7 Unix
    system version. More recent systems have seen incredible growth in the number of supported system calls. Linux 5.15.0 has 449 system calls and FreeBSD 8.0...
    13 KB (1,165 words) - 12:46, 21 January 2024
  • Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a given...
    52 KB (6,982 words) - 19:10, 14 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for OpenZFS
    OpenZFS (section FreeBSD)
    improvements much quicker. MidnightBSD, a desktop operating system derived from FreeBSD, supports ZFS storage pool version 6 as of 0.3-RELEASE. This was derived...
    64 KB (5,774 words) - 13:40, 31 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for NetBSD
    NetBSD 9.0. As of 10.0 release, NetBSD ZFS stack is comparable to that of FreeBSD 12 (or below), with ZFS filesystem version "5.3", zpool version "5000"...
    128 KB (10,413 words) - 17:51, 17 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for TrueOS
    TrueOS (redirect from Pc-bsd)
    (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT. Up to...
    26 KB (2,014 words) - 04:06, 31 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Basilisk (web browser)
    Basilisk (web browser) (category Free and open-source software)
    Basilisk is a free and open-source web browser available for Windows, Linux, and with experimental support for FreeBSD and macOS. Basilisk is an updated...
    9 KB (736 words) - 20:12, 25 June 2025
  • Clang (redirect from ClangBSD)
    booting FreeBSD kernel on i386/amd64". Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018. Building FreeBSD with Clang, Wiki.freebsd.org...
    38 KB (2,720 words) - 20:30, 5 July 2025
  • version of BSD Unix for PC compatible systems with Intel 386 (or later) processors. This made use of work previously done by Bill Jolitz to port BSD to...
    6 KB (608 words) - 20:59, 2 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Debian
    Debian (redirect from Debian GNU/FreeBSD)
    current version of Debian GNU/Hurd is 2023, published in June 2023. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a discontinued Debian flavor. It used the FreeBSD kernel and...
    152 KB (13,066 words) - 08:39, 14 July 2025