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Summary

FreeBSD is a BSD[1]. FreeBSD draws 7,047 Wikipedia views per month (bsd category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: free operating system[3]
  • Based on: Berkeley Software Distribution[4], 386BSD[5]
  • Copyright license: 4-clause BSD License[6], 3-clause BSD License[7], ISC license[8], 2-clause BSD License[9]
  • Software version identifier: 8.4[10], 9.3[11], 10.0[12], 10.1[13], 9.1[14], 9.2[15], 10.2[16], 1.0[17], 2.2.0[18], 2.2.8[19], 2.2.9[20], 10.3[21], 11.0[22], 11.2[23]
  • Commons category: FreeBSD[24]
  • Platform: X86[25], x86-64[26], SPARC[27], DEC Alpha[28], PowerPC[29], ARM architecture[30], MIPS architecture[31], RISC-V[32]
  • Inception: November 1, 1993[33]
  • Publication date: November 1, 1993[34]
  • Mascot: BSD Daemon[35]
  • Official website: https://www.freebsd.org[36]
  • Topic's main category: Category:FreeBSD[37]
  • Source code repository URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/[38], http://BXR.SU/FreeBSD/[39], https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd[40], https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports[41], https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc[42], https://svn.freebsd.org/base/[43], https://git.freebsd.org/src.git[44], https://cgit.freebsd.org[45]

Why It Matters

FreeBSD has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] FreeBSD is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

FreeBSD has been cited as an influence by macOS[48], a proprietary operating system[49], founded in 2001[50]; Darwin[51], an Unix-like operating system[52]; and XNU[53], a kernel[54].

FAQs

Who did FreeBSD influence?

FreeBSD has been cited as an influence by macOS[48], Darwin[51], and XNU[53].

Related Entities

386BSD Apache Traffic Server Banana Pi Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing Berkeley packet filter Bespoke Synth Blender BSD bsdutils Cardinal Chatterino Climate Data Operators Crystal Darwin DEC Alpha DesktopBSD Dolphin DragonFly BSD EncFS FluidSynth Folding@home FreeBASIC free operating system FreeSBIE FuryBSD Gentoo/FreeBSD GHDL GhostBSD GLFW GNU Gatekeeper

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Class ancestry

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  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · S8321414 · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Software version identifier → 8.4, 9.3, 10.0 +39
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Software version identifier: 14.5"
  2. 16w ago · Lokiretro · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Software version identifier → 8.4, 9.3, 10.0 +39
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Software version identifier: 15.1"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008415-FreeBSD-software
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0008415-FreeBSD-software, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  4. 20w ago · Piotr Osada · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of poland mms id → 9810670480505606
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of poland mms id: 9810670480505606"
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