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What is the full form of FreeBSD?

Published in Operating Systems 1 min read

While "FreeBSD" is the name of an operating system, it doesn't actually stand for anything specific.

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), but the 'Free' in FreeBSD refers to it being freely available and not restricted by licensing, rather than being an acronym. In essence, FreeBSD is a name, not an abbreviation.

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