The FreeBSD project includes a security team overseeing all software shipped in the base distribution. 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 and FreeBSD source code is generally released under a permissive BSD license, as opposed to the copyleft GPL used by Linux. įreeBSD has similarities with Linux, with two major differences in scope and licensing: FreeBSD maintains a complete system, i.e. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular open-source BSD operating system, accounting for more than three-quarters of all installed and permissively licensed BSD systems. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. Monolithic with dynamically loadable modulesįreeBSD License, FreeBSD Documentation LicenseįreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. Servers, workstations, embedded systems, network firewalls
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