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In most cases a package created for an older version of FreeBSD can be installed and used on a newer system without difficulty since binary backward compatibility across major releases is enabled by default. A packaging system for binary packages [6] called pkg has replaced the package management system in FreeBSD 10. [7]
pkgsrc was created in August 1997 based on the existing FreeBSD ports system. It follows a quarterly release schedule and as of October 2018 contains over 22'000 packages. With their 1.4 release, DragonFly BSD announced that they would be adopting pkgsrc as their official package management system. [5]
Junos 7.3 and higher is based on FreeBSD 4.10; Junos 8.5 is based on FreeBSD 6.1; Junos 15.1 is based on FreeBSD 10 [19] Junos 18.1 is based on FreeBSD 11 [20] KACE Networks's KBOX 1000 & 2000 Series Appliances and the Virtual KBOX Appliance [citation needed] Lynx Software Technologies LynxOS, uses FreeBSD's networking stack [21] [22]
2.0-RELEASE was announced on 22 November 1994. The final release of FreeBSD 2, 2.2.8-RELEASE, was announced on 29 November 1998. FreeBSD 2.0 was the first version of FreeBSD to be claimed legally free of AT&T Unix code with approval of Novell. It was the first version to be widely used at the beginnings of the spread of Internet servers.
Easy to use while maintaining full use of FreeBSD base GhostBSD: Eric Turgeon 2009-11-01 FreeBSD: 24.01.1 2024-02-13 Free BSD: Desktop, Workstation: Easy to use, full FreeBSD w/ GNOME, Mate, Xfce, LXDE or Openbox. FuryBSD Joe Maloney 2019-10-24 FreeBSD: 12.1-2020090701 (2020Q3) 2019-12-02 Free BSD: Desktop, Workstation: Easy to use, full ...
FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD [3] —the first fully functional and free Unix clone—and has since continuously been the most commonly used BSD-derived operating system.
Originally forked from FreeBSD 4.8, now developed in a different direction TrueNAS: Previously known as FreeNAS. GhostBSD: GhostBSD is a FreeBSD OS distro oriented for desktops and laptops. Its goal is to combine the stability and security of FreeBSD with OpenRC, OS packages and Mate graphical user interface.
Pacman: MSYS2-ported Windows version of the Arch Linux package manager; Scoop Package Manager: free and open-source package manager for Windows; wpkg: Open-source package manager that handles Debian packages on Windows. Started as a clone of dpkg, and has many apt-get like features too; Superseded: