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Project Summary

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC, MIPS, ARM, PowerPC, and RISC-V architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals.

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arm bsd freebsd i386 ia64 itanium kernel macppc multithreaded operating_system os posix powerpc smp soekris sparc sparc64 symmetric_multi_processing x86 x86_64

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C
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42 Other
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30 Day Summary

Dec 9 2025 — Jan 8 2026

12 Month Summary

Jan 8 2025 — Jan 8 2026
  • 8823 Commits
    Up + 728 (8%) from previous 12 months
  • 447 Contributors
    Down -34 (7%) from previous 12 months