Background
In 1974, Professor Bob Fabry of the University of California, Berkeley, acquired a Unix source license from AT&T. Supported by funding … See more

FreeBSD is developed by a volunteer team located around the world. The developers use the Internet for all communication and many have not met each other in person. In addition to local user groups sponsored and attended by users, an annual … See more

For many years FreeBSD's logo was the generic BSD Daemon, also called Beastie, a distorted pronunciation of BSD. However, Beastie was not unique to FreeBSD. Beastie … See more

• Free and open-source software portal
• BAPP, a set of commonly used software with FreeBSD
• Comparison of BSD operating systems
• Comparison of operating system kernels See more

Use cases
FreeBSD contains a significant collection of server-related software in the base system and the ports collection, allowing FreeBSD to be configured and used as a mail server, web server, firewall, FTP server See more

FreeBSD is released under a variety of open-source licenses. The kernel code and most newly created code are released under the two-clause BSD license which allows everyone to … See more

FreeBSD-based distributions
There are a number of software distributions based on FreeBSD.
All these distributions have no or only minor changes when compared with the original FreeBSD base system. The main difference to the … See more