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Awesome BSD 
This document is a database of links related to the BSD operating systems and BSD software license.
Structure is as follows:
- Operating Systems - official links
- BSD News - where to look for news?
- Forums and communities - reddit, forums, meetups etc
- Learning - where to learn BSD
- Books - books about BSD
- BSD related software
- Gaming
Operating Systems
In this section you can find official BSD OSes links (in alphabethical order ) with short description as can be found on their pages.
Bitrig
Bitrig is a free, fast, and secure Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available on current hardware platforms. The source code is freely available under a permissive license.
BSD Router Project
BSD Router Project (BSDRP) is an embedded free and open source router distribution based on FreeBSD with Quagga and Bird.
DragonFly BSD
DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating systems as other BSD-derived systems and Linux. It is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs and shares ancestor code with other BSD operating systems. DragonFly provides an opportunity for the BSD base to grow in an entirely different direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD series.
EdgeBSD
EdgeBSD is a new member of the family of BSD-based Operating Systems, starting development with the current NetBSD codebase with Git for Source Code Management. Package management is based on pkgsrc.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is an advanced computer operating system used to power modern servers, desktops and embedded platforms. A large community has continually developed it for more than thirty years. Its advanced networking, security and storage features have made FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.
FuryBSD
FuryBSD is a brand new, open source FreeBSD desktop. FuryBSD pays homage to desktop BSD projects of the past like PC-BSD and TrueOS with its graphical interface and adds additional tools like a live, hybrid USB / DVD image. FuryBSD is available with either XFCE or KDE.
GhostBSD
GhostBSD is a user-friendly BSD operating system built on top of TrueOS. GhostBSD aims to provide a familiar workstation with all of the features and benefits of FreeBSD, combined with a twist that is the MATE desktop environment and a focus on user-friendliness. Available in both 32- and 64-bit versions, GhostBSD is suitable for newcomers, as well as experienced BSD users.
HardenedBSD
HardenedBSD is a security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD. The HardenedBSD Project is implementing many exploit mitigation and security technologies on top of FreeBSD.
LiteBSD
LiteBSD is variant of 4.4BSD operating system for microcontrollers. Currently, only Microchip PIC32MZ family is supported. PIC32MZ is a MIPS32 processor with MMU with paging support, and 512kbytes of on-chip RAM. These resources are enough to run 4.4BSD.
MidnightBSD
MidnightBSD is a new BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more. With a small community of dedicated developers, MidnightBSD strives to create an easy-to-use operating system everyone can use, freely. Available for x86, AMD64 and as Virtual Machines.
MirOS
MirOS BSD is a secure operating system from the BSD family for 32-bit i386 and sparc systems. It is based on 4.4BSD-Lite (mostly OpenBSD, some NetBSD®). The MirPorts Framework is a portable ports tree to facilitate the installation of additional software. The project also releases some portable software: mksh, a pdksh-based shell; PaxMirabilis, an archiver for various formats; MirMake, a framework for building software; MirNroff, an AT&T nroff based man page (and text document) formatter; MirCksum, a flexible checksumming and hash generation tool; and some more.
NomadBSD
NomadBSD is a 64bit live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery.
NetBSD
NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent for use in both production and research environments, and the source code is freely available under a business-friendly license. NetBSD is developed and supported by a large and vivid international community. Many applications are readily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection.
NextBSD
NextBSD is a code name for "science project", a name which is more tongue-in-cheek than serious (naming projects is hard). It started as an effort to adapt some of the more interesting Open Source technologies from Darwin/OS X to FreeBSD.
OpenBSD
The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. As an example of the effect OpenBSD has, the popular OpenSSH software comes from OpenBSD.
- official site
- download
- mailing list
- openbsd-awesome - the curated list of awesome OpenBSD products, vacancies, resources.
- OpenBSD Jumpstart
OPNsense
OPNsense is an open source,easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform. OPNsense includes most of the features available in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. OPNsense® is a fork of pfSense® that in its turn has been forked from m0n0wall®.
OS108
OS108 is a fast, open and Secure replacement Operating System for Windows and macOS. Built on top of NetBSD, OS108 provides a simple desktop-oriented operating system.
pfSense
pfSense® software is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD specifically tailored for use as a firewall and router that is entirely managed via web interface. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution.
RaspBSD
RaspBSD is a image of FreeBSD 11 that is preconfigured in two different images for Raspberry Pi Computers (and more soon).
RetroBSD
RetroBSD is a port of 2.11BSD Unix intended for embedded systems with fixed memory mapping. The current target is Microchip PIC32 microcontroller with 128 kbytes of RAM and 512 kbytes of Flash. PIC32 processor has MIPS M4K architecture, executable data memory and flexible RAM partitioning between user and kernel modes.
SmallWall
A long time ago, a very smart guy asked a very simple question. "Why do firewalls have to be big, slow, and hard to configure?" And he created m0n0wall.At this, it was amazingly successful. So successful that the FreeBSD based core was used as a basis for several other projects such as pfSense, Askozia, FreeNAS, and nas4free. Recently, a grandchild of m0n0wall was spawned from pfSense, OPNSense. But, m0n0wall has retired now, and some of us still feel the need for a small and lean firewall. SmallWall is that firewall.
t1n1wall
As m0n0wall decided to close it's doors, and no further development is planned, people have created this fork.
TrueOS
Formerly known as PC-BSD. What makes TrueOS® different? TrueOS® is based on the legendary security and stability of FreeBSD. TrueOS® follows FreeBSD Current, with the latest drivers, security updates, and packages available. Also, our brand new driver package brings in support for newer Intel graphics chipsets and hardware. We pride ourselves on providing industry leading features like Personacrypt, which allows encrypting your user home directory and carrying it to other TrueOS® machines. TrueOS® also supports GELI full disk encryption, keeping your data secure even in the case of physical theft. So go ahead and give us a try. If you hit any snags along the way, we are glad to help.
ZRouter
ZRouter.org is a FreeBSD based firmware for embedded devices.
BSD News
In this section you can find sites presenting news about BSD.
News sites
- #BSDHistory - twitter-sized facts about BSDs
- BSDSec.net - deadsimple BSD Security Advisories and Announcements
- BSD Weekly - a free, once–weekly e-mail round-up of BSD news and articles.
- DiscoverBSD.com - Discovering the Way of the BSD
- DragonFly BSD Digest - A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
- FreeBSDNews - A blog advocating FreeBSD and offering project news and advice.
- NetBSD Planet
- OpenBSD Journal - A resource for the OpenBSD community
- Phoronix
- Planet FreeBSD
- Slashdot - BSD section of the popular Slashdot open source news and forum site.
Podcasts
- BSDNow - weekly BSD podcast, featuring news, interviews and tutorials, in MP3, OGG and MP4
- BSDTalk - Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems.
- Garbage (archive) - A podcast about technology, much of it garbage. (Archived episodes)
Forums and Communities
Forums
- /r/bsd
- /r/bsdsec
- /r/dragonflybsd
- /r/freebsd
- /r/hardenedbsd
- /r/netbsd
- /r/openbsd
- /r/openbsd_gaming/
- /r/opnsense - private
- /r/OPNsenseFirewall
- /r/unixporn
Meetups
User Groups
- AMBUG - Armenia BSD User Group
- BSD-PL - Polish BSD User Group
- HELBUG - Helsinki area BSD User Group
- FreeBSD Groups
- Knoxville BSD User Group
- MetaBUG - A Global BSD Users Group Federation
- NetBSD Groups
- New York City *BSD User Group
- New Delhi BSD User Group
- OpenBSD Groups
- Orlando BSD user group
- Southeast Michigan BSD User Group
Community initiatives
- BSD Hardware - A project to collect hardware details of BSD-powered computers and help users and developers to debug hardware related issues, check for compatibility and find drivers
- dmesgd - A user-submitted repository of searchable *BSD dmesgs, maintained by NYC*BUG
Learning
- The BSD Certification Group - The BSD Certification Group Inc. is a non-profit organization committed to creating and maintaining a global certification standard for system administration on BSD based operating systems.
- TeachBSD - Teaching Operating Systems with Tracing : a set of courses for students and software practitioners.
Books
- Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Ed
- Absolute OpenBSD
- Designing BSD Rootkits: An Introduction to Kernel Hacking
- FreeBSD Device Drivers
- FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems
- FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials
- FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS
- FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS
- The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System 2nd Ed
BSD related software
- Bastille - Bastille helps you quickly create and manage FreeBSD Jails
- CBSD - CBSD is a management layer written for the FreeBSD jail(8) subsystem, bhyve and Xen
- Runhyve - The Virtual Machines Manager for Bhyve
Gaming
- linuxulator-steam-utils - A set of workarounds for running the Linux Steam client under the FreeBSD Linux emulation layer
- The Homura Project - Windows Games Launcher for FreeBSD