FreeBSD Alive
FreeBSD
KindOperating system
Appeared1993
StatusAlive
CreatorFreeBSD Project
FamilyBSD
Platformx86, ARM, others
Sourcewww.freebsd.org ↗
386BSD legal-shadow lineage — the BSD that Netflix moves a third of internet traffic on; jails predated containers by a decade.
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FreeBSD grew from the BSDi's free releases after the 1992 settlement — the direct 4.4BSD-Lite descendant, focused on correctness and performance. It powers Netflix's CDN, Sony's consoles, and much of the internet's infrastructure.\n\nThe 'BSD' license it ships under is the maximally permissive license — anyone can take it, and many did.