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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a Unix-basedopen source software from the Berkeley Software Distribution, which originated at the University of California. The project is also supported by the FreeBSD Foundation and the BSD Certification Group.

FreeBSD was ported to Intel's x86 platform by Berkeley Software Distribution in 1993. In 1994 followed BSDLite, a version without proprietary source code, followed in the same year by the fully functional version FreeBSD 2.0. Since FreeBSD is designed for use in data communications, e.g. by the early implementation of network protocols such as IPv6 or IP Security Protocol( IPsec), the system is not only used on servers and desktops, but also in appliances such as routers and NAS components, in the Internet backbone and web hosting.

FreeBSD includes the operating system kernel, device drivers, application programs, server software and software ported to FreeBSD by third-party vendors. In total, the base system of FreeBSD can be extended with over 20,000 software applications from independent developers. Since FreeBSD also processes the formats of GNU/ Linux, the software developed for it is also executable.

The development of a new release takes place in several phases: CURRENT for the development of new functionalities, STABLE for tested software and the hardly changed RELEASE. The source code of FreeBSD is kept in a central archive, a repository, and is administered by a core team, which is elected every two years by the active developers.

FreeBSD derivatives include Darwin as the basis of Apple 's Mac OS X or Junos as the operating system of Juniper Networks' routers. The authoritative FreeBSD distributions are Debian GNU/kFreeBSD as a port of the Debian GNU system to the FreeBSD kernel as well as the FreeNAS and NAS4Free developed for network attached storage (NAS).

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Englisch: FreeBSD
Updated at: 21.05.2013
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Links: Unix, software (SW), project, Berkeley software distribution (BSD), platform
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