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Briefly, FreeBSD is a UNIX operating system based on U.C. Berkeley's 4.4BSD-lite release for the i386 platform (and recently the alpha platform). It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's Net/2 to the i386, known as 386BSD, though very little of the 386BSD code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and how it can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home page.

Author:
The FreeBSD Project

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8.86/10.00 (63 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.freebsd.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
Changelog:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html
Bittorrent:
http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/
Purchase:
http://www.freebsdmall.com/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/
Bug tracker:
http://www.freebsd.org/support/bugreports.html
Mailing list archive:
http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list
Mirror site:
http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (original)
[Topic]		System :: Operating System

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	7.0	14-Apr-2008	BSD License (original)
Development	6.1-RC1	13-Apr-2006	BSD License (original)

 Articles referencing this project

• Largefile Support Problems
  by Guido Draheim , in Editorials
  Sun, Jan 26th 2003 00:00
  
• Absolute BSD
  by Dan Langille , in Book Reviews
  Sat, Dec 7th 2002 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] FreeBSD
by David Chkhikvadze - May 24th 2003 14:27:56

FreeBSD is the most exiting, stable and well organized OS I have ever woked on, I use it for everything:
As a platform for web aplications, as a workstation etc.

It has prooved to have good documentation, zounds of software, both native and running on top of emulators.

I realy adore this OS!

--
The question is: to Admin or not to Admin!

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[»] FreeBSD is great!
by gooober - Dec 22nd 2002 23:30:41

I've been using FreeBSD for about 3 years now, switching from SuSE GNU/Linux.

I was using GNU/Linux since '96 and ever since I have switched to FreeBSD I have liked the way it's structured.

Their ports collection really gives one notice of how true UNIX porting is like and also gives you more power to discover truely what goes on underneath all of the gui stuff that's going around now-a-days.

I have learned tremendously over the years through using GNU/Linux and FreeBSD...just little bits at a time.

May you enjoy your journey as well.

gooober

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[»] FreeBSD is great !
by Cinek - Aug 12th 2001 18:59:03

This is how every Linux/Unix-based operating system should look like! I'm very impressed. I like the well-structured package management, the huge port collection, the OS-emulations (Solaris, Linux etc) and the stability (which I missed while using Linux). The guys are doing great work.

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[»] notice
by Xcs - Aug 23rd 1999 21:19:17

I suggest to begginer BSD users not to bother with FreeBSD 4.0-snapshot, a bit too unstable. You would come off better with version 3.2. The snapshot version right now is basically for developers.

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