Comparison of BSD operating systems

There are a number of Unix-like operating systems based on or descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variants. The three most notable descendants in current use are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, which are all derived from 386BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite, by various routes. Both NetBSD and FreeBSD started life in 1993, initially derived from 386BSD, but in 1994 migrating to a 4.4BSD-Lite code base. OpenBSD was forked in 1995 from NetBSD. Other notable derivatives include DragonFly BSD, which was forked from FreeBSD 4.8, and Apple Inc.'s iOS and macOS, with its Darwin base including a large amount of code derived from FreeBSD.

Most of the current BSD operating systems are open source and available for download, free of charge, under the BSD License, the most notable exceptions being macOS and iOS. They also generally use a monolithic kernel architecture, apart from macOS, iOS, and DragonFly BSD which feature hybrid kernels. The various open source BSD projects generally develop the kernel and userland programs and libraries together, the source code being managed using a single central source repository.

In the past, BSD was also used as a basis for several proprietary versions of UNIX, such as Sun's SunOS, Sequent's Dynix, NeXT's NeXTSTEP, DEC's Ultrix and OSF/1 AXP (now Tru64 UNIX). Parts of NeXT's software became the foundation for macOS which, together with iOS, is among the most commercially successful BSD variants in the general market.

Aims and philosophies

DragonFly BSD

DragonFly BSD aims to be inherently easy to understand and develop for multi-processor infrastructures. Forking from FreeBSD 4.8, the main goal of the project is to radically change the kernel architecture, introducing microkernel-like message passing which will enhance scaling and reliability on symmetric multiprocessing platforms while also being applicable to NUMA and clustered systems. The long-term goal is to provide a transparent single system image in clustered environments. DragonFly BSD originally supported both the IA-32 and x86-64 (or AMD64) platforms, however version 4.0 dropped support for IA-32.[1][2] Matthew Dillon, the founder of DragonFly BSD, believes supporting fewer platforms makes it easier for a project to do a proper, ground-up SMP implementation.[3]

FreeBSD

FreeBSD aims to make an operating system usable for any purpose.[4] It is intended to run a wide variety of applications, be easy to use, contain cutting edge features, and be highly scalable on very high load network servers.[5] FreeBSD is free and open source, and the project prefers the BSD license. However, they sometimes accept non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and include a limited number of closed-source HAL modules for specific device drivers in their source tree, to support the hardware of companies who do not provide purely open source drivers (such as HALs to program software-defined radios so that vendors do not share their proprietary algorithms). To maintain a high level of quality and provide good support for "production quality commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) workstation, server, and high-end embedded systems", FreeBSD focuses on a narrow set of architectures.[6] A significant focus of development since 2000[7] has been fine-grained locking and SMP scalability. From 2007 on, most of the kernel was fine-locked and scaling improvements started to be seen.[8] Other recent work includes Common Criteria security functionality, such as mandatory access control and security event audit support.

TrueOS

TrueOS (previously PC-BSD) aims at user friendliness for the layperson. KDE was the default desktop environment up to PC-BSD8, but as of PC-BSD9 a range of environments including KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE, and many window managers are available to choose from during the installation.[9] An easy to use software manager is included, which downloads and installs binary packages in TrueOS's own .pbi format. Each version of TrueOS remains directly descended from the same version of FreeBSD. The FreeBSD community will typically point users looking for an "easy" BSD to the TrueOS project.[10]

JunOS

JunOS is the FreeBSD-based proprietary and closed-source operating system distributed with Juniper Networks hardware.

NetBSD

NetBSD aims to provide a freely redistributable operating system that professionals, hobbyists, and researchers can use in any manner they wish. The main focus is portability, through the use of clear distinctions between machine-dependent and machine-independent code. It runs on a wide variety of 32-bit and 64-bit processor architectures and hardware platforms, and is intended to interoperate well with other operating systems. NetBSD places emphasis on correct design, well-written code, stability, and efficiency. Where practical, close compliance with open API and protocol standards is also aimed for. In June, 2008, the NetBSD Foundation moved to a two clause BSD license, citing changes at UCB and industry applicability.[11] NPF is a project spawn by NetBSD.

OpenBSD

OpenBSD aims at security, correctness, and being as free as possible. Security policies include revealing security flaws publicly, known as full disclosure; thoroughly auditing code for bugs and security issues; various security features, including the W^X page protection technology and heavy use of randomization; a "secure by default" philosophy including disabling all non-essential services and having sane initial settings; and integrated cryptography, originally made easier due to relaxed Canadian export laws relative to the United States. Concerning software freedom, OpenBSD prefers the BSD or ISC license, with the GPL acceptable only for existing software which is impractical to replace, such as the GNU Compiler Collection. NDAs are never considered acceptable. In common with its parent, NetBSD, OpenBSD strives to run on a wide variety of hardware.[12]

The OpenBSD project has spawned numerous child projects such as OpenSSH, OpenNTPD, OpenBGPD, OpenSMTPD, PF, CARP, and LibreSSL. Many of these are designed to replace restricted alternatives.

Bitrig

Focus on using modern tools such as git and LLVM/clang along with only focusing on modern platforms, like amd64 and armv7 per 2016. Bitrig also aims to be less restrictive than OpenBSD with the codebase when it comes to experimenting with features.[13]

Popularity

Bar chart showing the proportion of users of each BSD variant from a BSD usage survey from September 2005.[14]

In September 2005, the BSD Certification Group, after advertising on a number of mailing lists, surveyed 4,330 BSD users, 3,958 of whom took the survey in English, to assess the relative popularity of the various BSD operating systems. About 77% of respondents used FreeBSD, 33% used OpenBSD, 16% used NetBSD, 2.6% used Dragonfly, and 6.6% used other (potentially non-BSD) systems. Other languages offered were Brazilian and European Portuguese, German, Italian, and Polish. Note that there was no control group or pre-screening of the survey takers. Those who checked "Other" were asked to specify that operating system.[14]

Because survey takers were permitted to select more than one answer, the percentages shown in the graph, which are out of the number survey of participants, add up to greater than 100%. If a survey taker filled in more than one choice for "other", this is still only counted as one vote for other on this chart.[14]

Another attempt to profile worldwide BSD usage is the *BSDstats Project, whose primary goal is to demonstrate to hardware vendors the penetration of BSD and viability of hardware drivers for the operating system. The project collects data monthly from any BSD system administrators willing to participate, and currently records the BSD market share of participating FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, TrueOS, and MirBSD systems.[15]

DistroWatch, well known in the Linux community and often used as a rough guide to free operating system popularity, publishes page hits for each of the Linux distributions and other operating systems it covers. As of 4 September 2016, using a data span of the last six months it placed FreeBSD in 21st place with 479 hits per day; TrueOS in 46th place with 244 hits per day; GhostBSD in 47th place with 242 hits, OpenBSD in 75th place with 163 hits per day; MidnightBSD in 118th place with 89 hits per day; and NetBSD in 142nd place with 66 hits per day.[16]

Names, logos, slogans

The names FreeBSD and OpenBSD are references to software freedom: both in cost and open source.[17] NetBSD's name is a tribute to the Internet, which brought the original developers together.[18]

The first BSD mascot was the BSD daemon, named after a common type of Unix software program, a daemon. FreeBSD still uses the image, a red cartoon daemon named Beastie, wielding a pitchfork, as its mascot today. In 2005, after a competition, a stylized version of Beastie's head designed and drawn by Anton Gural was chosen as the FreeBSD logo.[19] The FreeBSD slogan is "The Power to Serve."

The NetBSD flag, designed in 2004 by Grant Bisset, is inspired by the original NetBSD logo,[20] designed in 1994 by Shawn Mueller, portraying a number of BSD daemons raising a flag on top of a mound of computer equipment. This was based on a World War II photograph, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. The Board of Directors of The NetBSD Foundation believed this was too complicated, too hard to reproduce and had negative cultural ramifications and was thus not a suitable image for NetBSD in the corporate world. The new, simpler flag design replaced this.[21] The NetBSD slogan is "Of course it runs NetBSD", referring to the operating system's portability.

Originally, OpenBSD used the BSD daemon as a mascot, sometimes with an added halo as a distinguishing mark, but OpenBSD later replaced its BSD daemon with Puffy. Although Puffy is usually referred to as a pufferfish, the spikes on the cartoon images give him a closer likeness to the porcupinefish. The logo is a reference to the fish's defensive capabilities and to the Blowfish cryptography algorithm used in OpenSSH. OpenBSD also has a number of slogans including "Secure by default", which was used in the first OpenBSD song, "E-railed", and "Free, Functional & Secure",[22] and OpenBSD has released at least one original song with every release since 3.0.[23]

The DragonFly BSD logo, designed by Joe Angrisano, is a dragonfly named Fred.[24] A number of unofficial logos[25] by various authors also show the dragonfly or stylized versions of it. DragonFly BSD considers itself to be "the logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series."[26] FireflyBSD has a similar logo, a firefly, showing its close relationship to DragonFly BSD. In fact, the FireflyBSD website states that proceeds from sales will go to the development of DragonFly BSD, suggesting that the two may in fact be very closely related.

PicoBSD's slogan is "For the little BSD in all of us," and its logo includes a version of FreeBSD's Beastie as a child,[27] showing its close connection to FreeBSD, and the minimal amount of code needed to run as a Live CD.

A number of BSD OSes use stylized version of their respective names for logos. This includes macOS, TrueOS, GhostBSD, DesktopBSD, ClosedBSD,[28] and MicroBSD.[29] TrueOS's slogan is "Personal computing, served up BSD style!", GhostBSD's "A simple, secure BSD served on a Desktop." DesktopBSD's "A Step Towards BSD on the Desktop." MicroBSD's slogan is "The small secure unix like OS."

MirOS's site collects a variety of BSD mascots and Tux, the Linux mascot, together, illustrating the project's aim of supporting both BSD and Linux kernels. MirOS's slogan is "a wonderful operating system for a world of peace."[30]

General information

Primary developers First public release Based on Latest stable version Cost (USD) Preferred license Purpose Short description
Version Release Date
FreeBSD The FreeBSD Project 1993-12-01 386BSD, 4.4BSD-Lite 11.0 2016-09-11 Free Simplified BSD Server, Workstation, Network Appliance, Embedded Aims to be usable for any purpose.
OpenBSD The OpenBSD Project 1996-09-01 NetBSD 1.0 6.0 2016-09-01 Free ISC Server, Workstation, Network Appliance, Embedded Aims for maximum security.
SnasciOS snasci.com 2016-10-01 OpenBSD 6.0 Preview 1 2016-10-07 Free Proprietary Server, Workstation, Network Appliance, Embedded Aims for maximum security in a desktop experience.
NetBSD The NetBSD Project 1993-05-01 386BSD, 4.4BSD-Lite 7.0.1 2016-05-28 Free Simplified BSD Server, Workstation, Network Appliance, Embedded Aims for maximum portability.
DragonFly BSD Matt Dillon 2004-07-12 FreeBSD 4.8 4.6 2016-07-02 Free Modified BSD Server, Workstation, Network Appliance, Embedded Aims for maximum scalability.
386BSD[Note 1] William and Lynne Jolitz 1992-03-01 4.3BSD Net/2 1.0 1994-11-01 Free BSD Open source general purpose Historical
BSD/OS (BSD/386)[Note 1] BSDi, Wind River Systems 1993-03-01 4.3BSD Net/2, 4.4BSD 5.1 2003-10-01 ? Proprietary General purpose Historical
SunOS[Note 1][Note 2] Sun Microsystems 1982 4.xBSD, UNIX System V[31] 4.1.4 1994-11-01 Included in hardware and support charges Proprietary Server, Workstation Historical (Solaris is a different code base)
Ultrix[Note 1] Digital Equipment Corporation 1984 4.2BSD, SVR2 4.5 1995 ? Proprietary General Purpose Historical (ran on DEC VAX & MIPS systems or emulators).
Tru64 UNIX (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX) DEC, Compaq, HP 1993 4.3BSD, 4.4BSD, Mach 2.5, UNIX System V 5.1B-6 2010-10-01 Non-free $99 (non-commercial) Proprietary General Purpose Only runs on HP Alpha systems or emulators.
macOS Apple Inc. 2001-03-24 Darwin 10.12 "Sierra" 2016-09-20 Client: Free
Server (add-on application): $19.99		 Open source core system (see Darwin) with proprietary higher level API layers locking to Apple hardware Workstation, Home Desktop, Server Locked to Apple hardware use only
iOS Apple Inc. 2007-06-01 Darwin 10.0.2 2016-09-23 Free Open source core system (see Darwin) with proprietary higher level API layers locking to Apple hardware Embedded mobile device Ships with Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple TV, Apple Watch
Darwin Apple Inc. 2001-03-01 NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, classic Mac OS 16.0.0 2016-09-13 Free APSL, GPL and others Workstation, Home Desktop, Server The kernel and certain userland components of macOS and iOS
TrueOS iXsystems, Inc. 2006-04-29 FreeBSD 10.3 2016-04-04 Free BSD Desktop Easy to use while maintaining full use of FreeBSD base
GhostBSD Eric Turgeon 2009-11-01 FreeBSD 10.1 2015-09-13 Free BSD Desktop, Workstation Easy to use, full FreeBSD w/ GNOME, Mate, Xfce, LXDE or Openbox.
DesktopBSD Peter Hofer, Daniel Seuffert 2005-07-25 FreeBSD 1.7 2009-09-07 Free BSD Desktop Easy to use
ClosedBSD Joshua Bergeron and various contributors ? FreeBSD 1.0B (floppy), 1.0-RC1 (CD) ? Free Proprietary ? firewall/NAT, boot floppy, Live CD
FreeSBIE ? ? FreeBSD 2.0.3 2007-02-01 Free ? ? Live CD of FreeBSD. DistroWatch lists as discontinued.
PicoBSD Michael Bialecki ? FreeBSD 0.42 ? Free BSD boot floppy ?
Anonym.OS ? 2005-01-01 OpenBSD 3.8 none (beta only) ? Free ? Anonymous browsing Live CD
MirOS BSD The MirOS Project ? OpenBSD 3.1 #10 2008-03-16 Free ? ? European
ekkoBSD[Note 1] Rick Collette ? OpenBSD 3.3 ? ? ? ? Server easy to administer
MicroBSD[Note 1] Bulgarians ? OpenBSD 3.0/3.4 0.6 2003-10-27 Free ? General purpose Small, secure
OliveBSD Gabriel Paderni ? OpenBSD 3.8 ? ? Free ? Live CD DistroWatch lists as discontinued.
Gentoo/FreeBSD Gentoo Linux developers ? FreeBSD ? ? Free GPL, BSD Server, Workstation, Network Appliance uses Gentoo framework
Gentoo/OpenBSD Gentoo Linux developers ? OpenBSD ? ? Free GPL, BSD Server, Workstation, Network Appliance, Embedded uses Gentoo framework
Gentoo/NetBSD Gentoo Linux developers ? NetBSD ? ? Free GPL, BSD Server, Workstation, Network Appliance, Embedded uses Gentoo framework
Gentoo/DragonflyBSD Robert Sebastian Gerus (project not yet officially supported by Gentoo) ? DragonFly BSD ? ? Free ? Server, Workstation, Network Appliance uses Gentoo framework
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD team 2011-02-06 GNU, FreeBSD 7.5 2014-04-26 Free DFSG General purpose GNU userspace on FreeBSD kernel
Debian GNU/NetBSD The Debian GNU/kNetBSD team Abandoned GNU, NetBSD Abandoned Abandoned Free DFSG General purpose GNU userspace on NetBSD kernel
MidnightBSD[32] Lucas Holt 2007-08-04 FreeBSD 6.1 beta[33] 0.8 2016-08-14 Free BSD Desktop GNUstep based Desktop Environment
pfSense various contributors 2006-10-04 FreeBSD 2.3.2 2016-06-25 Free BSD Security appliance firewall/NAT, Live CD
Paxym FreeBSD for Octeon Paxym Inc. 2007-12-11 FreeBSD 7.0 4.7 2008-08-13 ? Proprietary Network, Storage, Security Applications: Routers/UTM/Firewall/NAS For Cavium Networks Octeon MIPS architecture multicore processors[34]
MaheshaBSD[35] ? FreeBSD 8 ? ? Free BSD FreeBSD multipurpose
KarmaBSD[36] ? FreeBSD 8
OpenBSD		 ? ? Free Free software FreeBSD, OpenBSD Firewall, MP3 player, backup, others
Jibbed[37] OpenBSD, NetBSD 6.0 Free BSD Live CD of NetBSD
Bitrig The Bitrig Developers 2014-11-25 OpenBSD 1.0 2014-11-25 Free ISC General Purpose Focus on modern platforms and tools
Developer First public release Based on Version Release Date Cost (USD) Preferred license Purpose Short description
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 386BSD, BSD/OS, SunOS, and Ultrix are historic operating systems that are no longer developed. BSDeviant and ekkoBSD do not exist anymore either, although BSDeviant is still available for download (see external links). MicroBSD ended, then started again in 2003, but it does not seem that any progress has been made since then, though the website still exists.
  2. ↑ This article only refers to SunOS through version 4.x. SunOS from release 5.x forward is based on SVR4, and is most commonly referred to as the Solaris.

Technical information

Supported architectures Supported file systems[Note 1] Kernel type GUI on by default[Note 2] Package management Update management Primary APIs[Note 3]
FreeBSD x86, x86-64, PC98, Itanium, UltraSPARC, ARM, MIPS, PPC, others UFS, UFS2, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NetWare (nwfs), NTFS (limited read-write), ReiserFS (read only), ZFS, FUSE, Coda (experimental), AFS, others Monolithic with modules No (X.Org available) ports tree, packages source (svn, portsnap), network binary update (freebsd-update, pkg) BSD, POSIX
OpenBSD x86, 68k, Alpha, x86-64, SPARC, UltraSPARC, ARM, MIPS, PPC, VAX, others UFS, UFS2, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, NTFS (read only), AFS, FUSE, others Monolithic No (X.Org included)[Note 4] ports tree, packages source (CVS, CVSync, rsync) or binary upgrade BSD, POSIX
NetBSD x86, 68k, Alpha, x86-64, PPC, SPARC, UltraSPARC, ARM, others UFS, UFS2, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, NFS, LFS, UDF, SMBFS, Coda, HFS+ (read only), EFS (read only), NTFS (read only), TMPFS, FUSE, PUFFS (BSD replacement of FUSE), ADOS (AmigaDOS file system), filecorefs (Acorn RISC OS file system), others Monolithic with modules No (X.Org or XFree86 included)[Note 5] pkgsrc, packages source (CVS, CVSup, rsync) or binary (using sysinst) BSD, POSIX
DragonFly BSD x86-64 HAMMER, UFS, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF (read-only), NFS, SMBFS, NTFS, TMPFS, ext2, HPFS, PUFFS, others Hybrid No (X.Org available) dports, pkgng Git BSD, POSIX
Ultrix VAX, PDP-11, MIPS UFS + others Monolithic No (X11 included) setld ? BSD, POSIX (4.0 onwards)
Tru64 UNIX Alpha UFS, AdvFS, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS Hybrid Yes (CDE) setld dupatch POSIX, UNIX 98, X11, CDE, others
macOS / Darwin PPC, x86, x86-64, ARM HFS+ (default), exFAT, HFS, UFS, AFP, ISO 9660, FAT, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS (read only), FTP, WebDAV, others Hybrid Yes (Aqua) macOS Installer Software Update Carbon, Cocoa, BSD/POSIX, CF, X11 (since 10.3)
TrueOS x86-64 UFS, UFS2, FAT, ISO 9660, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS (read only), ZFS, others Monolithic with modules Yes (KDE) graphical installation wizard, ports tree CVSup, Portsnap, network binary update (Online Update) BSD, POSIX, X11, KDE
MidnightBSD x86, x86-64 UFS, UFS2, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NetWare (nwfs), NTFS (read only), others Monolithic with modules No (X.Org available) ports tree, packages source CVSup BSD, POSIX, X11, GNUstep
GhostBSD x86, x86-64 UFS, UFS2, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NetWare (nwfs), NTFS (limited read-write), ReiserFS (read only), ZFS, FUSE, Coda (experimental), AFS, others Monolithic with modules Yes (MATE) ports tree, packages source (CVSup, portsnap), network binary update (freebsd-update) BSD, POSIX
Bitrig x86-64, ARM UFS, UFS2, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, NTFS (read only), AFS, FUSE, others Monolithic No (X.Org included)[Note 4] ports tree, packages source (git) or binary upgrade BSD, POSIX
  1. ↑ UFS and UFS2 are descendants of the old FFS. However, many BSD operating systems refer to UFS1 as FFS.
  2. ↑ Operating systems where the GUI is not installed and turned on by default are often bundled with an implementation of the X Window System. However, installing X is usually optional.
  3. ↑ Most operating systems use proprietary APIs in addition to any supported standards.
  4. 1 2 Unlike FreeBSD, OpenBSD includes the X Window System as base install sets rather than packages within the ports collection. It includes some local changes and is managed as part of the OpenBSD source tree.
  5. ↑ NetBSD includes either X.Org or XFree86 (depending on platform) as a base install set and includes some local changes, maintained within the NetBSD source tree.

Security features

Resource access control Security logging Subsystem isolation mechanisms Integrated firewall Encrypted file systems Data execution prevention
hardware emulation
macOS Unix, ACLs, MAC syslog, CAPP event auditing, OpenBSM chroot, sandbox IPFW2 (deprecated), PF Yes Yes[Note 1] No[Note 2]
FreeBSD Unix, ACLs, MAC syslog, CAPP event auditing, OpenBSM chroot, jail, MAC partitions, Capsicum IPFW2, IPFilter, PF Yes Yes Yes[Note 3]
TrueOS Unix, ACLs, MAC ? chroot, jail, MAC Partitions IPFW2, IPFilter, PF Yes[Note 4] Yes No
GhostBSD Unix, ACLs, MAC syslog, CAPP event auditing, OpenBSM chroot, jail, MAC partitions, Capsicum IPFW2, IPFilter, PF Yes Yes Yes[Note 3]
MidnightBSD Unix, ACLs, MAC syslog chroot, jail, MAC partitions IPFW2, IPFilter, PF Yes No No
DragonFly BSD Unix syslog chroot, jail, VKernel IPFW3, IPFilter, PF Yes No No
NetBSD Unix, Veriexec syslog chroot, privilege separation IPFilter, PF, NPF Yes Yes Yes
OpenBSD Unix syslog chroot, pledge, privilege separation PF Yes[Note 5] Yes Yes
Bitrig Unix syslog chroot, systrace, privilege separation PF Yes Yes Yes
  1. ↑ Stack-only protection for Mac OS X 10.4, stack and heap for Mac OS X 10.5 and above.
  2. ↑ CPU architectures without hardware data execution prevention are not officially supported, no emulation needed.
  3. 1 2 ProPolice/Stack-Smashing Protector has been enabled in base system since FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE.
  4. ↑ Additionally swap space may be encrypted during installation, uses memory based tmp file storage by default.
  5. ↑ Swap space encrypted by default on OpenBSD 3.8 and above

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "DragonFly Frequently Asked Questions". The DragonFly BSD Project. Archived from the original on 2006-06-15. Retrieved 2006-07-01.
  2. ↑ "DragonFlyBSD: FAQ-English". The DragonFly BSD Project. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
  3. ↑ Biancuzzi, Federico (2004-07-08). "Behind DragonFly BSD An Interview with the developers.". O’Reilly Media, Inc. p. 3. Retrieved 2006-04-29.
  4. ↑ "Chapter 1 Introduction: 1.2. - What is the goal of the FreeBSD Project?". Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X. The FreeBSD Documentation Project. 1995–2006. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  5. ↑ "About FreeBSD". The FreeBSD Project. 2006-10-12. Retrieved 2006-10-14.
  6. ↑ "Support for Multiple Architectures: Statement of General Intent". Committer's Guide. The FreeBSD Documentation Project. Retrieved 2006-10-14. The FreeBSD Project targets "production quality commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) workstation, server, and high-end embedded systems".
  7. ↑ "Destabilization due to SMP development". Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  8. ↑ http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/papers/smp/slides.pdf
  9. ↑ Moore, Kris (March 14, 2011). "A Quick Look at the Upcoming PC-BSD 9". Official PC-BSD Blog. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  10. ↑ "FreeBSD Form Post "Seriously"". FreeBSD Forums. 2011-04-14. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
  11. ↑ "About the NetBSD Project - What is the NetBSD project?". The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 2006-01-08. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  12. ↑ "OpenBSD Project Goals". OpenBSD. 2005-10-12. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  13. ↑ "Faq - Bitrig", Github, 7 December 2014.
  14. 1 2 3 BSD Certification site; PDF of usage survey results. Retrieved on 2012-09-16.
  15. ↑ "*BSD Usage Statistics". The *BSD Stats Project. Retrieved 2006-09-30.
  16. ↑ "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing.". DistroWatch.com. 2001–2011. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  17. ↑ "Chapter 1 Introduction - Why is it called FreeBSD?". Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X. The FreeBSD Documentation Project. 1995–2006. Retrieved 2006-06-11.
  18. ↑ "About the NetBSD Project - Why the name?". The NetBSD Foundation. 1994–2006. Retrieved 2006-12-06.
  19. ↑ FreeBSD Logo Competition. The FreeBSD Project. Competition ended 2005-06-30. Retrieved on 2006-04-22.
  20. ↑ Mueller, Shawn (1994). "Original NetBSD Logo" (JPEG). The NetBSD Foundation. Retrieved 2006-04-22. Also see NetBSD Logos.
  21. ↑ Mewburn, Luke (2004-01-14). "NetBSD logo design competition". Netbsd-advocacy mailing list. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
    Linked to from:
    "Changes and NetBSD News in 2004 - NetBSD Logo Design Contest". The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 2004-01-13. Retrieved 2006-10-14.
    Also see:
    "The NetBSD Foundation Press Release: Announcement of New Logo - NetBSD has a new logo!". The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 2004-10-30. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  22. ↑ "OpenBSD 3.9 - Free, Functional & Secure" (JPEG). OpenBSD. Retrieved 2006-07-01.
  23. ↑ "OpenBSD release song lyrics". OpenBSD. 2006-04-15. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  24. ↑ official DragonFlyBSD artwork
  25. ↑ "DFWiki - DragonFly Artwork". The DragonFlyBSD Project. 2006-03-28. Archived from the original on 2005-04-10. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  26. ↑ "The History of DragonFly". The DragonFly BSD Project. Archived from the original on 2006-04-14. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  27. ↑ "PicoBSD Banner - For the little BSD in all of us". The FreeBSD Project. Archived from the original (GIF) on 2006-05-03. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  28. ↑ "ClosedBSD logo". Archived from the original (JPEG) on 2005-03-06. Retrieved 2006-10-14. Original last retrieved on 2006-04-22.
  29. ↑ "MicroBSD logo - The small secure unix like OS" (PNG). Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  30. ↑ "MirOS/MirPorts: a wonderful operating system for a world of peace". MirOS Project. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
  31. ↑ "SunOS 4.1.3: svidii - overview of the System V environment". FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages. The FreeBSD Project. 1989-09-30. Retrieved 2006-06-14.
  32. ↑ "MidnightBSD News". Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  33. ↑ "About MidnightBSD". Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  34. ↑ "Paxym - FreeBSD for OCTEON CPU". Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  35. ↑ "FreeBSD MaheshaBSD Project". Archived from the original on 25 April 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  36. ↑ "One Floppy OpenBSD MP3 Player". Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  37. ↑ jibbed.org

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