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FreeBSD currently has more than 200 active developers and thousands of contributors. Other notable derivatives include DragonFly BSD, which was forked from FreeBSD 4.8, and Apple Inc.'s macOS, with its Darwin base including a large amount of code derived from FreeBSD.
FreeBSD maintains a complete system, delivering a kernel, device drivers, userland utilities, and documentation, as opposed to Linux only delivering a kernel and drivers, and relying on third-parties such as GNU for system software. [7] The FreeBSD source code is generally released under a permissive BSD license, as opposed to the copyleft GPL ...
The BSD license is a simple license that merely requires that all code retain the BSD license notice if redistributed in source code format, or reproduce the notice if redistributed in binary format. The BSD license (unlike some other licenses e.g. GPL ) does not require that source code be distributed at all.
ClonOS – FreeBSD based distro for virtual hosting platform and appliance. Darwin – The UNIX-based, open-source foundation of macOS, [1] iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS, includes code from FreeBSD and the Mach kernel from Carnegie Mellon; DesktopBSD – [defunct] KDE-based desktop-oriented distribution
Free BSD: Server: 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
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.
DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began working on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on 16 July 2003.
Patent grant - protection of licensees from patent claims made by code contributors regarding their contribution, and protection of contributors from patent claims made by licensees; Private use - whether modification to the code must be shared with the community or may be used privately (e.g. internal use by a corporation)