BSD family of UNIX operating systems : compiled list

updated: 2018-03-16 11:55:10

BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) was a UNIX operating system derivative developed, and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995. Today the term BSD is often used non-specifically to refer to any of the BSD descendants which together form a branch of the family of UNIX-like operating systems. Operating systems derived from the original BSD code remain actively developed, and widely used.

Historically, BSD has been considered a branch of UNIX, Berkeley UNIX, because it shared the initial codebase and design with the original AT&T UNIX operating system. In the 1980s, BSD was widely adopted by vendors of workstation-class systems in the form of proprietary UNIX variants such as DEC ULTRIX and Sun Microsystems SunOS. This can be attributed to the ease with which it could be licensed, and the familiarity the founders of many technology companies of the time had with it.

Although these proprietary BSD derivatives were largely superseded by the UNIX System V Release 4, and OSF/1 systems in the 1990s (both of which incorporated BSD code and are the basis of other modern UNIX systems), later BSD releases provided a basis for several open source development projects that are ongoing, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Darwin, and TrueOS, among others. These, in turn, have been incorporated in whole, or in part in modern proprietary operating systems, e.g., the TCP/IP networking code in Windows NT 3.1, and most of the foundation of Apple's macOS and iOS.

FreeBSD

Homepage: http://www.freebsd.org/

FreeBSD, which began in 1993, is a UNIX-like, free operating system descended from AT & T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through 386BSD, and 4.4BSD. Working on processors compatible with the Intel x86 family of processors, as well as the DEC Alpha, UltraSPARC processors from Sun Microsystems, Itanium (IA-64), AMD64, and PowerPC processors. Also runs on the PC-98 architecture. Support for ARM and MIPS architectures is currently under development. In early 1993. The Jordan K. Hubbard, Rod Grimes, and Nate Williams launched a project aimed at addressing the problems that existed in the principles of development, and Jolitz 386BSD. After consulting with former users of the system, and having established the principles of the deliberate name -- FreeBSD. Before the actual development started, Jordan Hubbard suggested the firms Walnut Creek CDROM (BSDi today) to prepare distribution of FreeBSD on CD-ROMs. Walnut Creek CDROM accepted the idea, but also provided the (then totally unknown) machine where the project would be developed, and a fast Internet connection. Without this assistance FreeBSD would hardly been developed to such a degree, and at the speed that it has. The first distribution of FreeBSD on CD-ROMs (and of course on the net) was FreeBSD 1.0; released in December of 1993. It was based on the Berkeley 4.3BSD-eva-Lite ("Net / 2"), and of course, contained a component from 386BSD, and many Open Source free software programs. After Novell bought unix from AT & T, Berkeley had to admit that the Net / 2 tape contained parts of the UNIX code. After the court case, it was agreed to prepare a Berkeley 4.4BSD-Lite distribution with that code re-written. All users of the Net / 2 tape were forced to cross the 4.4BSD-Lite. This included the FreeBSD, so the task of the project was to complete a system based on a new and incomplete 4.4BSD-Lite distribution. Large parts of the system have been re-programmed so that in November 1994. The released FreeBSD 2.0 distribution that is finally able to legally be distributed over the internet and CD-ROM's. FreeBSD is the most common free operating system that appears to Netcraft's list of 50 web servers with the longest uptime included.

Download: http://DamnSmallBSD.ORG/docs/userdocs/freebsd/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

OpenBSD

Homepage: http://www.openbsd.org/

OpenBSD is a free UNIX-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a UNIX derivative designed at the University of California, Berkeley. Separated from NetBSD, the oldest of the three major operating systems based on BSD, which is still active today (the third is a freebie). Open the project in 1996. Theo de Raadt began, one of the main developers of the project NetBSD. Instead of high portability, OpenBSD is oriented toward security. OpenBSD is the operating system with a very strong security-operation, as well as with cryptography (Blowfish, OpenSSH, PRNG, OpenSSL ...) integrated into the system. Also, the developers of OpenBSD I have been since 1996. It started with a detailed overview of the kernel code for potential bugs and exploits, resulting in correcting the many errors in the code before and they were observed in other systems. OpenBSD is currently working on 16 different hardware different hardware platforms, including DEC Alpha, Intel i386, AMD AMD64 and Motorola 68000 processors, Apple's PowerPC machines, Sun SPARC and SPARC64-based computers, the VAX and the Sharp Zaurus. Logo and mascot OpenBSD's Puffy, fish fuktac. OpenBSD is certainly the most impressive operating system available today in terms of security.

Download: http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html

NetBSD

Homepage: http://www.netbsd.org

NetBSD is a version of the open source BSD operating systems. It was the second official release variations BSD open source, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed .. NetBSD was created with the aim to improve the mechanism and the development of 386BSD. People from Virginia Tech firms take for the 386BSD and Net / 2 tape and started the porting BSD on Macintosh computers. Development soon spread to the Atari ST, Amiga and PC platforms. As the project developed, it became apparent that it will be earmarked for FreeBSD i386 and NetBSD for all other platforms. It got its name because it was until 1998. The work on it was related solely to the Net, and communication among developers has been based on the chat and mail. Famed for their portability and quality of design and implementation, often used in embedded systems and serve as a starting point for porting other operating system to new architectures. Today NetBSD power lies in the support of less than 55 hardware platforms. NetBSD has become a stable, multi-platform, research-oriented operating system. Commitment to portability impact on other operating systems that they provide support for multiple platforms. Several operating systems (OpenBSD, KAME, Darwin, MacOS X) is derived directly from NetBSD.

Download: http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/

DragonFly BSD

Homepage: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/

DragonFly BSD operating system is a branch of FreeBSD. Matt Dillon, the longtime FreeBSD and Amiga developer, began work on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists that July 16, 2003. Dillon started DragonFly believing that the methods and techniques that are accepted for threading and SMP in FreeBSD 5 lead to a lack of a functioning system which will be very difficult to maintain. He wanted to solve the alleged problems within the FreeBSD project. Because of the conflict, which lasted from other developers for the implementation of his ideas in FreeBSD, and other reasons, its ability to directly change the FreeBSD code was revoked. Despite this, the FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD projects are still working together exchanging solutions for bugs, updates drivers, and other system enhancements. Intended to be "a logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series," DragonFly is developing in a completely different direction from FreeBSD 5, including the new Light Weight Kernel Threads (LWKT) implementing and light weight ports / messaging system. Many concepts planned for DragonFly were inspired by AmigaOS included.

Download: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/community/download.cgi

MidnightBSD

Homepage: https://www.midnightbsd.org/

MidnightBSD is a 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.

MidnightBSD began as a fork from FreeBSD in 2005. The founder of the project, Lucas Holt, wished to create a BSD derived desktop operating system. He was familiar with several live CD projects, but not the work on TrueOS or DesktopBSD. At the same time, he also had an interest in GNUstep. The two ideas were folded into a plan to create a user friendly desktop environment.

MidnightBSD 0.1 was released based on the efforts of Lucas Holt, Caryn Holt, D. Adam Karim, Phil Pereira of bsdnexus, and Christian Reinhardt. This release features a modified version of the FreeBSD ports system. The ports system evolved into mports which includes fake support, generation of packages before installation, license tagging, and strict rules about package list generation and modification of files outside the destination. Many of these features were introduced in MidnightBSD 0.1.1.

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 (x86_64) and as Virtual Machines.

Download: https://www.midnightbsd.org/download/

Other BSD projects

Pcbsd (now TrueOS)

Homepage: http://www.pcbsd.org/ See: /PC-BSD/

PC-BSD is a UNIX-like, operating system, oriented to desktop users, and based on FreeBSD. Is aimed at easy installation, using a graphical installation program, which is now ready for use by KDE, which uses as basic, pre-installed graphical user interface. PC-BSD project is developing graphical software installation program to install pre-built software packages.

Download: https://DamnSmallBSD.org/PC-BSD/downoad

DesktopBSD

Homepage: http://www.desktopbsd.net/ (DEAD) ~2018
See: https://DamnSmallBSD.org/DesktopBSD/

DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop users. DesktopBSD combines the stability of FreeBSD, use and functionality of KDE and simplicity of specially developed software that provides ease of use and installation.

Download: https://DamnSmallBSD.org/DesktopBSD/downloads

TrueOS (previously PC-BSD)

Homepage: https://www.trueos.org/ (DEAD)

TrueOS brings the following features: TrueOS uses LibreSSL for everything, Full clang functionality built from ports, TrueOS upgrades use boot environments and never touch your live system, Linux DRM 4.9 (Supports modern Intel graphics – Broadwell, Skylake), Ports and packages compiled with more options. Many are very familiar with the name PC-BSD and may be wondering why we changed the name. Although it’s a household name for so many, the developers realized this was a time for a new name that would better convey our message. Lead developer Kris Moore had this to say: We’ve already been using TrueOS for the server side of PC-BSD, and it made sense to unify the names. PC-BSD doesn’t reflect server or embedded well.

This has experienced quite a bit of indecision -- PC-BSD --> TrueOS --> TrueNAS --> DEAD. :o/

Download: trueos
or maybe: here for source (no ISO/IMAGE(s))

Darwin

Homepage: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html

Darwin is a free, UNIX-like open source system released by Apple Computer in 2000. It is also a core component that was developed into Mac OS X. In April 2002 ISC, and Apple created OpenDarwin. OpenDarwin creates their own editions of Darwin OS. A remarkable sub-project is OpenDarwin DarwinPorts, which aims to collect the next generation collection of ports for Darwin. Darwin developers decided in 2000 to adopt a mascot, They chose Hexley the platypus from among others, such as Aqua Darwin fish, Clarus the dogcow, and orca.

Download: http://darwinbuild.macosforge.org/

MacOS

Homepage: http://www.apple.com/mac/

Mac OS, by the way stands for Macintosh Operating System, it is actually a series of operating systems with graphical user interface developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh line of computer systems. It is often said that the Mac OS popularized the graphical user interface. First introduced in 1984 with the original Macintosh 128K. The term Mac OS did not actually exist until it went public in the mid-nineties. Since then, the term includes all versions of the Mac software. Earlier versions of Mac OS were compatible only with Makintosh, which were based on the Motorola 68000, while the later versions become compatible with the PowerPC (PPC) architecture. More recently, Mac OS X has become compatible with the Intel x86 architecture.

Download: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA48312?viewlocale=en_US

TrustedBSD

Homepage: http://www.trustedbsd.org/

TrustedBSD project provides a reliable set of extensions to the FreeBSD operating system, initially begun by Robert Watson. The aim of the project is to implement the concepts of the general criteria for information technology security assessment (see Orange Book). This project is still under development, and a lot of these trusted extensions are integrated in FreeBSD 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and now the current development line. The main focus of the project is TrustedBSD work on Access Control Lists, auditing, extended attributes, and Mandatory Access Control. While most of the components in the TrustedBSD project use the main sources for FreeBSD, this is not their only destination. The vast majority of options, and the path to open and Apple's Darwin. As part of the project TrustedBSD, there is a port NSA's FLASK / TE implementation of SELinux in working on FreeBSD.

MicroBSD

Homepage: http://www.microbsd.net/ (DEAD since 2004)

MicroBSD is a branch of OpenBSD 3.0, a descendant of the BSD UNIX operating system, which is a project that started in June 2002. The MicroBSD goal is to make a free and fully secure, complete system in a small package. The first phase of development was initially abandoned, but the project was again rebuilt by the new development group.

Download: http://dione.jtan.com/pub/fwimage.iso.gz or
http://DamnSmallBSD.ORG/MicroBSD/microbsd-x86-0.6 (iso image) – 63Mb, MD5 (08f4fb31b1a33e126d1a1aa9315cb207)

MirOS BSD

Homepage: http://mirbsd.de/
http://mirbsd.mirsolutions.de/

MirOS BSD (or MirBSD) is a secure operating system that started as a branch of OpenBSD 3.1 in August of 2002. The intent is to maintain the security of OpenBSD on a regular basis, with updates to synchronize code. It is combined with various other sources, particularly from NetBSD.

Download: https://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/current/,
Mirrors: https://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/,
BitTorrent: https://www.mirbsd.org/bt.htm

ekkoBSD

Homepage: http://www.ekkobsd.org/ (DEAD since 2005)

ekkoBSD is a UNIX-like operating system based on OpenBSD 3.3, but also includes the other BSD-like operating systems. His focus is on safety and easy administration. Basic installation ekkoBSD given e-mail server, web server, ssh, and several other services that would normally be attached and secured. The project is set up and maintained by Rick Collette, and was maintained at by many programmers. From the very beginning of the concept of a ekkoBSD was the implementation of the Single Server. This is something like the firewalls on a single floppy disk, rescue disks, etc.. such as PicoBSD. End ekkoBSD project was announced on their website on the 18th July 2004.

EclipseBSD

Homepage: http://www.bell-labs.com/project/eclipse/release/ (DEAD since 2005)

Eclipse operating system is the basis for testing the Quality of Service (QoS) that is being developed at the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. The current version of Eclipse, which is called Eclipse / BSD is based on FreeBSD version 3.4., And is compatible with FreeBSD, supporting the same system calls, protocols, drivers and applications.

Download: http://www.bell-labs.com/project/eclipse/release/downloads.html unavailable

BSDeviant

Homepage: http://bsdeviant.org/ (DEAD)
Use: /BSDeviant/

BSDeviant project was initiated by Unixpunx I offer a free, UNIX-like operating system based on FreeBSD. They emphasize "ease of use" (for both new and experienced users for), security, and the effort to be portable and as little as possible, I have the slogan "UNIX, anytime, anywhere."

Download: BSDeviant releases

WarBSD

Homepage: http://www.warbsd.com/index.html (DEAD since 2005)

WarBSD a "tool for network testing" a wireless network is based on FreeBSD 5.0 (the so-called war driving kit). Inspired by the WarLinux included.

Download: http://DamnSmallBSD.org/WarBSD/

FreeNAS

Homepage: FreeNAS See also: truenas

FreeNAS is a small operating system based on FreeBSD, which provides free services for network data storage (Network Attached Storage - NAS), such as for example, CIFS, FTP and NFS.

Download: http://www.freenas.org/download-freenas-release.html

TrianceOS

Homepage: http://www.trianceware.com (DEAD since 2004)

TrianceOS operating system is complete, UNIX-like open source system that is descended from FreeBSD 5th For now, TrianceOS for the Intel i386 architecture. TrianceOS is a highly integrated system. Besides being very portable, which holds the kernel of high performance and comes from FreeBSD, TrianceOS has a complete set of user tools, compilers for several languages, the X Window System, firewall-level kernel, and other tools specifically constructed to operate over the graphical user interface (GUI), all of which come with full source code. TrianceOS package contains a collection of over 175 pre-compiled binary software packages and thousands of open source software available worldwide.

Live CDs which are based on the BSD system

FreeSBIE

Homepage: http://www.freesbie.org/ (DEAD since 2009)
Please see: http://DamnSmallBSD.org/FreeSBIE/

Freesbie LiveCD is an operating system that is lifted directly from a bootable CD without installation or procee hard disk. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system. Freesbie using Xfce and Fluxbox environment.

Download: https://DamnSmallBSD.org/FreeSBIE/#download

Frenzy

Homepage: http://frenzy.org.ua/en/, and http://frenzy.bspu.ru/

Frenzy's portable system administrator toolkit, LiveCD based on FreeBSD. Generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis. The full version boots to a Xorg Desktop. It comes in three versions: standard (desktop), mini, and micro

Download: ftp://ftp.frenzy.org.ua/pub/Frenzy/

ftp://ftp.ufanet.ru/pub/unix/BSD/Frenzy/
http://frenzy.bspu.ru/frenzy/iso/

FreeBSD Live CD

Homepage: http://FreeBSD-Live.org/ (DEAD)
See: /FreeBSD-Live/

FreeBSD LiveCD has a set of tools designed to enable anyone to generate their personally adapted to FreeBSD Live CD. FreeBSD LiveCD was born as an internal project of the Brazilian FreeBSD User Groups ( www.fugspbr.org ). The main objective was to create a tool that would allow a safe diagnostic method, in exceptional cases, especially as a rescued disk partition where FreeBSD can access (mounted) just outside.

Download: https://DamnSmallBSD.org/FreeBSD-Live

FreeBSD Live tools

Homepage: http://livecd.sourceforge.net/

Download: http://livecd.sourceforge.net/download.php

OliveBSD

Homepage: http://g.paderni.free.fr/olivebsd/ (DEAD since 2011)
Please see: http://DamnSmallBSD.org/OliveBSD/

OliveBSD LiveCD is based on OpenBSD 3.8 with IceWM graphical environment and various software.

Download: http://DamnSmallBSD.org/OliveBSD/#download

NetBSD Live CD

NetBSD Project on Live CD

Download: (NetBSD Live CD) and /livecd/

Newbie

Homepage: http://arudius.sourceforge.net/ (DEAD)
Use: /Newbie/

This acronym is pronounced newbie just as the word "newbie" (beginner) and abbreviations for NetBSD Ware Burned In Economy. Newbie NetBSD live CD is in spirit similar to the better known Freesbie live CD.

Download: https://DamnSmallBSD.ORG/Newbie/

Ging

Homepage: http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/ging/

Ging the Live CD system. It is based on Debian GNU / kFreeBSD (which is still based on Debian, GNU and FreeBSD kernel). Ging is completely composed of free software (according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines) and are required to keep such.

Download: http://gnu.ethz.ch/ging/
http://ftp.gnuab.org/pub/ging/

Anonym.OS Live CD

Homepage: http://kaos.to/cms/content/view/14/32/ (DEAD as of 2007)
Use: Anonym.OS

Anonym. LiveCD OS is the operating system, which is lifted from the disk. The main focus is on safe and anonymous internet surfing. The operating system is OpenBSD 3.8, although many packages added to achieve the goal. Used Fluxbox for your window manager. Anonym. OS is OpenBSD 3.8 Live CD with strong tools for anonymity and encryption connection.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/anonym-os/

GuLIC-BSD

Homepage: http://lebrillo.osl.ull.es/projects/gulicbsd/

GuLIC-BSD LiveCD is based on Freesbie operating system localized for the Spanish language.

Download: ftp://gulicbsd.lebrillo.osl.ull.es/pub/gulicbsd/iso/0.2/

RoFreeSBIE

Homepage: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/RoFreeSBIE-Live-CD-9067.shtml

RoFreeSBIE a LiveCD based on FreeBSD 6.0 operating system and comes from Romania. RoFreeSBIE means Romanian Free System Burned In Economy. At the beginning it was based on Freesbie port, made by Gufi (Italian Free Unix Group).

Download: ftp://ftp.rofug.ro/pub/projects/ROFreeSBIE/ROFreeSBIE-1.1.iso

BSDLive

Homepage: http://www.ixsystems.com/cgi-bin/store/bsdlive.html (they pulled the ISO about mid 2006)

BSDLive live CD is a live filesystem based on FreeBSD that can fit on a business card CD-ROM. What this means, is a FreeBSD operating system that will run directly from the CD – not using your hard drive.

Download: http://www.ixsystems.com/cgi-bin/store/bsdlive.html

Bzerk CD

Homepage: http://www.bzerk.org/projects/bzerkcd/

Last version BzerkCD's installation-current development branch of FreeBSD. It contains plenty of new features, making it a valuable tool for system rescue adninistratore. Eg automatic detection network, welcome splash screen, NetBackup Client Tools for Linux ext2 and ext3 file systems. Bzerk CD does not contain a graphical user interface (GUI). BZERK working on additional software and configuration files, making CD Bzerk useful and secure production server, for example. ADSL firewall / router, or Mailserver MailHUB, DNS server, Webserver.

Download: http://www.bzerk.org/downloads/bzerkcd.iso.gz

Snarl

Homepage: http://snarl.eecue.com/articles/

Snarl is a bootable CD that forensics is based on FreeBSD and uses the autopsy and the task of @ stake as well as a list of known scmoo correct checksum.

Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/snarl/

Firewalls, Routers, NAT, and embedded projects based on BSD systems

ClosedBSD

Homepage: (on GitHub)

ClosedBSD a firewall, and a tool for network address translation (NAT) run from floppy disk or a CDROM. It needs no hard drive. ClosedBSD is based on the FreeBSD kernel, uses ipfw rules management, and natd for network address translation. ClosedBSD contains an advanced configuration manager based on ncurses, that enables you to easily configure your firewall rules for using filters protocol, port forwarding, and NAT (network address translation) mechanism using with a simple menu.

Download https://github.com/joshuabergeron/ClosedBSD

faof (Firewall On A Floppy)

Homepage: http://www.theapt.org/openbsd/firewall.html

OpenBSD project firewall on one floppy. Project abandoned.

Download: http://www.theapt.org/openbsd/foaf-0.7.tar.gz

fdgw

Homepage http://www.fml.org/software/fdgw/

fdgw version NetBSD/i386 on one floppy at. It can be run on older machines without HDD. You can use it as a small router or DSL router natbox. It is the minimum operating system. For example, an old PC (eg IBM PC110) becomes: ADSL router, router, natbox, you pet the firewall. fdgw is inserted in the package NetBSD (pkgsrc) as sysutils / fdgw on 26/12/2001. See PR pkg/14171 for more details.

Download: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#onefloppy

Floppy-1

Homepage http://www.floppy-1.com/ (DEAD as of 2004)

Currently available FLOPPY-1 (firewall, router and VPN gateway) and SQUID-1 (web cache server). Can be installed on the CF card. If you go to their configuration page http://www.floppy-1.com/wizard.en.shtml can configure the firewall to your needs before download so you select among a number of examples of your network, enter the appropriate values and remove the configured version.

Download http://www.floppy-1.com/cfdist.shtml.en (CF card)

m0n0wall

Homepage: https://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php

m0n0wall is embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD. Comes as a small image that can be placed on a Compact Flash card as well as the CD-ROM's and hard drives. It works on a number of embedded platforms. m0n0wall allows web-based configuration and uses a graphical interface for PHP bootup and configuration. For its configuration parameters using only a single XML file.

Download: https://m0n0.ch/wall/downloads.php

m0n0BSD

Homepage: http://www.m0n0.ch/bsd/ (discontinued 09/24/2006)
Please see: http://DamnSmallBSD.org/m0n0BSD/

m0n0BSD a version of FreeBSD that was cut to fit the Compact Flash card, with a focus on embedded systems, such as net45xx series of Soekris Engineering.

Download: http://DamnSmallBSD.org/m0n0BSD/#downloads

pfSense

Homepage: http://www.pfsense.com/

pfSense protective sid which is based on the FreeBSD operating system, which is derived from m0n0wall's, I used pf packet filter from the OpenBSD. The aim of the project is different from the m0n0wall-in pfSense that tries to offer a rich platform routing options.

Download: http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=22

PicoBSD

Homepage: https://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/old/picobsd.html

PicoBSD version of FreeBSD 3.0-current that fits on one floppy, you who in their different variations allows you to have secure dialup access, small diskless router or even a dial-in server. And all this is just a standard 1.44MB floppy Iodine. For a minimum 386SX CPU with 8MB of RAM (HDD not required!). There Dialup, Networking and Router version.

Download: (Router Version)

RaspBSD

Homepage: http://raspbsd.org/

RaspBSD is a image of FreeBSD that is preconfigured in two different images for Raspberry Pi Computers, and more...

Download: Banana Pi, BeagleBone Black & Green, Raspberry Pi

TheWall

Homepage: http://thewall.sourceforge.net/

TheWall PicoBSD configuration is a collection of trees and built binary packages for various platforms that enable NAT and firewall for a small network. TheWall project goal is to allow the user to start immediately without having to learn the details of construction PicoBSD editions.

Download: http://thewall.sourceforge.net/

TinyBSD

Homepage: http://DamnSmallBSD.org/TinyBSD/

TinyBSD is a set of tools made up of shell scripts, designed to allow easy development of Embedded Systems based on FreeBSD RELENG_5, RELENG_6, RELENG_7, 8-CURRENT, and 9_STABLE. Images are currently available for: 5.4_STABLE, 6.0-BETA, 6.2_PRERELEASE, 6.2_PRERELEASE-WRAP, and 8.2_STABLE.

Download: http://DamnSmallBSD.org/TinyBSD/

NetBoz

Homepage: http://www.netboz.net/

The NetBoz live CD does not use a hard disk. All settings are stored on the protected floppy disk. Making it virtually immune to intrusions, and power failures. Project frozen.
Snapshot just before the project ended, is located here.

PsygNAT

Homepage: http://www.feu-nrmf.ph/norbert/projects/psygnat/

PsygNAT the firewall and NAT router tool i386 is lifted from a floppy disk. It is based on OpenBSD kernel and therefore pf used as the primary means of control rules.

Download: http://www.feu-nrmf.ph/norbert/projects/psygnat/#download

NetBSD/i386 Firewall project

Homepage: http://firewall.dubbele.com/

NetBSD/i386 Firewall is a free firewall solution for those with permanent Internet connection. This includes most dialup and ADSL users and branch offices with leased lines. Support for PPPoE and PPTP support is available on CD.

Download: http://firewall.dubbele.com/how_to_get.html

WifiBSD

Homepage: wifibsd gone since 2005

wifiBSD project is complete router solution based on FreeBSD and NetBSD supporting both wired and wireless network with a variety of options. The software is available as a compact flash image or run a Live CD.

Download: http://www.wifibsd.org/downloads/index.php

Bootable OpenBSD CD

Homepage: http://www.jtan.com/jtanoss/cdboot/

This project allows you to create a complete OpenBSD firewall without using hard drive. The system boots from the CDROM and keeps configuration information to a floppy, USB disk, or by using a USB CompactFlash reader. It is based on OpenBSD 3.5.

Download: http://dione.jtan.com/pub/fwimage.iso.gz

emBSD

Homepage: http://embsd.sourceforge.net/ DEAD since 2001
See: DamnSmallBSD/emBSD/.

EmBSD is a reduced version of OpenBSD. The EmBSD concept is a small operating system for x86 (or other) hardware that uses a small amount of space on the hard disk, but providing a fully functional router, and firewall. The concept is based on the fact that it does not use the hard drive, but a Compact Flash card.

This operating system is primary suited as a router, and firewall. Version 1.0 was released in March of 2001, Version 1.1, a few months later, in May, of 2001.

Download: http://www.networkcommand.com/embsd/1.0/i386

WiBSD

Homepage: http://www.wibsd.cz/

WiBSD - The Power for Embedded Systems specializes WiBSD embedded distributions FreeBSD operating system. WiBSD boot from Compact Flash, hard drive or a CD and work from memory. The system is configured with only one place (/ etc / rc.conf) and all other configuration files are dynamically created during system startup. Contains optional IPFW firewall that can be easily configured.

Download: http://www.wibsd.cz/where.html

CompactBSD

Homepage: http://compactbsd.sourceforge.net/

CompactBSD is a set of tools that allow you to compress to open a small (32MB) compact flash card for use in small embedded servers. CompactBSD can be used for wireless hot spots.

Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/compactbsd/CompactBSD-0.1.0.tgz?download

BSDBox

Homepage: http://bsdbox.sourceforge.net/

BSDBox a reduced version of FreeBSD. A similar PicoBSD but works well on flash cards
(CompactFlash, USB, DOC / DOM chips, 8MB is enough).
a basic freebsd box which can run on small flash rom and small memory.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=110714&package_id=119755

ZRouter

Homepage: http://zrouter.org/

ZRouter is a FreeBSD based firmware for embedded devices.

Download: How to build

The common BSD and GNU / Linux releases

Debian GNU / NetBSD

Homepage: http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/

Debian GNU / kNetBSD the GNU / kNetBSD operating system created by Debian's. This is the distribution of the GNU operating system with NetBSD kernel, unlike most other GNU variations that come with the Linux kernel. It is currently available for the IA-32 and Alpha architectures.

Download: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/debian-netbsd/floppies/

Debian GNU / kFreeBSD

Homepage: http://www.us.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

Debian GNU / kFreeBSD is GNU / kFreeBSD operating system developed by Debian developers for i486-compatible computer architecture. This is the distribution of the GNU operating system with Debian package management and FreeBSD kernel, unlike most other GNU variations that come with the Linux kernel. It should be pointed out that the house kFreeBSD refers to the fact that the FreeBSD kernel just booted. Ging is a Live CD distribution based on Debian GNU / kFreeBSD.

Gentoo / NetBSD

Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/nbsd/index.xml

Gentoo / NetBSD GNU project connecting Portage NetBSD kernel. The project began with Damian Florczyk. Currently it is only for the i386 platform and the system is incomplete.

Gentoo / OpenBSD

Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/obsd/index.xml

Gentoo / OpenBSD Gentoo / * BSD sub-project to be inserted Gentoo characteristics, such as Portage in OpenBSD completed operative system. There is an ISO image based on OpenBSD 3.4, but more of it supported. Karol Pasternak currently working on Gentoo / OpenBSD 3.8.

Gentoo / FreeBSD

Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/fbsd/index.xml

Gentoo / FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system developed by Gentoo Linux developers to bring Gentoo Linux design principles such as Portage in the FreeBSD operating system. Gentoo / FreeBSD is part of the larger Gentoo / * BSD project.

Commercial BSD systems

BSD / OS

Homepage: http://www.bsdi.com

BSD / OS (originally called BSD/386 and generally known as BSDi) is a commercial version of BSD UNIX operating system developed by Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI).

FireFly BSD

Homepage: http://www.fireflybsd.com/ DISCONTINUED
Snapshot: Firefly BSD

Firefly BSD is was commercially-supported operating system based on industry DragonFlyBSD FreeBSD.

Older and less well-known BSD systems

386BSD

Homepage: http://www.386bsd.org/

386BSD is derived from 4.3BSD. 386BSD, known as JOLIX, BSD is a free operating system for Intel 80386th 386BSD innovations include role-based security, ring buffers, self-ordered configuration, intuitive setup and install, peer-to-peer download, and modular design kernel. 386BSD is available for (nekomercijano) study on JOLIX.COM. The origin of the 386BSD code 4BSD edited by the University of California. 386BSD is a mother of three (Free) BSD systems today. BSD/386, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSD / OS, Darwin, OpenBSD and others are (directly or indirectly) resulting from a 386BSD.

2.11BSD

2.11BSD is based on the 2.10 edition with several missing pieces that came after the 4.3BSD-Tahoe. It can be found in the archives of the Ancient UNIX. 2.11BSD CSRG was the last edition of the DEC PDP-11 line system. This release is maintained Steven Schultz with a series patchlevel. It is the release of 4.4BSD-Lite, and requires the original UNIX license.

4.3BSD Quasijarus

Homepage: http://ifctfvax.harhan.org/Quasijarus/

Quasijarus 4.3BSD 4.3BSD Tahoe is a branch releases. CSRG group at Berkeley decided to start with the removal of support for the VAX BSD since 1988, making the 4.3BSD-Tahoe last CSRG release with support for the VAX. Quasijarus project continued development of 4.3BSD-Tahoe again this design goal scoring. Quasijarus can be downloaded from Quasijarus Project Web site, which includes distribution and further information about the implementation and the philosophy behind this project. It is the release of 4.4BSD-Lite, and requires the original UNIX license.

HPBSD

Info: http://www.flux.utah.edu/mike/hpbsd/hpbsd.html

HPBSD was the port 4.3BSD UNIX operating system for HP 9000, developed by Systems Programming Group at the University of Utah. HPBSD development began in 1987. The goal was to replace the HP-UX (System V derivative) with BSD environments on HP machines in Utah CS department, in order to improve compatibility with Vaxen who worked on BSD and Sun workstations that ran on SunOS . Port was completed in a month, thanks to an older BSD port for HP 9000/200. Trait that was HPBSD tell any binary compatibility with HP-UX-TV. I went to support the HP 9000 HPBSD was later inserted into the main tree BSD code, and appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. Last version HPBSD's was in April 1993. By 1999, there were still a few machines that ran on HPBSD-in.

SunOS

SunOS is a version of the UNIX operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation, and server systems in the early nineties. It was based on BSD UNIX, with some additions from UNIX System V, in later versions. SunOS 1.0 is largely based on 4.1BSD, and was released in 1982. SunOS 2.0, released in 1985, was used as a base, and 4.2BSD introduced the virtual filesystem (VFS) and NFS protocol. SunOS 3.0 coincided with the release of Sun-3 series in 1986, and contained a variety of tools from System V. SunOS 4.0, released in 1989, then migrated to the 4.3BSD, predstavjajuci new system viruelne memory, dynamic linking and implementation of System V STREAMS I / O architecture. In the early nineties Sun has replaced SunOS 4, which is derived from BSD UNIX, the version of System V Release 4, which they called the second Solaris SunOS 4 was then retroactively called "Solaris 1" in Sun marketing material.

NEXTSTEP

Info: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/

NEXTSTEP is the original object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer, Inc.. to work on his NeXT computers odgovarajuicim (also known as "black boxes"). NEXTSTEP 1.0 was released 18 September 1989 after a couple of hits in 1986, and last Release 3.3 in early 1995, and previously worked only on the Motorola 68000 CPU family (especially the original black boxes) and the generic IBM compatible x86/Intel, Sun SPARC , and HP PA-RISC. About the time 3.2 releases NeXT teamed up with Sun Microsystems to develop OpenStep, cross-platform implementation of the standard (for Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and NeXT Mach kernel version) based on NEXTSTEP 3.2. In February, of 1997, Apple bought NeXT Computer for million, using the OpenStep operating system as the basis for Mac OS X. OpenStep legacy in Mac OS X can be seen in the Cocoa development environment, where the Objective-C class libraries have the "NS" prefix. And there is a free software implementation of the OpenStep standard, it is GNUstep. NEXTSTEP was a combination of several parts: a UNIX-like system based on the Mach kernel, plus source BSD UNIX at UC Berkeley, and Display Postscript windowing engine, Objective-C language, object-oriented (OO) application level development tools for OC levels.

DEMOS

DEMOS, meaning "Dialogovaya Edinaya Mobilnaya Operatsionnaya Sistema", or "Interactive Common Portable Operating System") is a UNIX-like operating system in the Soviet Union was a derivative of BSD UNIX. Its development began in the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow, 1982, and continued in collaboration with other institutes. Was initially developed for the SM-4 (clone PDP-11/40). Later ported to the Electronics-1082, Besma, ES EVM.

AOS

AOS FAQ: http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/ibm-rt-faq.aos/msg00000.html

Academic Operating System (AOS) was IBM's version of UNIX 4.3BSD for the IBM RT. Academic institutions were offered as an alternative to AIX, the usual RT operating system. It seems that there was a later version of the AOS that stemmed from 4.3BSD-Reno, but was never distributed in large numbers.

mtXinu

mtXinu (reverse of UNIX TM) is a software company created in 1983, which produced the two operating systems. mtXinu was commercially licensed version of the BSD UNIX operating system for the DEC VAX. The initial version was based on 4.1cBSD; later versions were based on 4.2 and 4.3BSD. more / BSD was actually mtXinu version 4.3BSD-Tahoe for VAX and HP 9000, which contained the HPBSD a University of Utah. He is NFS. Mach386 is a hybrid Mach 2.5/2.6 and 4.3BSD-Tahoe/Reno for 386 and 486 PC.

Ultrix

Ultrix FAQ: http://www.supelec.fr/decus/faq/faq-ultrix.html

Info: http://www.osdata.com/oses/ultrix.htm

ULTRIX operating system is based on the 4.2BSD UNIX operating system with improvements 4.3BSD and System V Release 2 Contain various improvements that are specific to the digital hardware systems. First Ultrix OS, Ultrix-32, was based on 4.2BSD with some of the features of System V, and released in 1984. Its purpose was to be a pure UNIX for VAX with support for DEC. Later, Ultrix-32 added support for DECnet DEC and other appropriate protocols such as LAT. VAXclustering not supported. Soon after, the DEC has offered a project based on their V7M release.

CBSS (Hair-BSD)

Homepage: http://hbsd.bsdux.com.br/

CBSS project began in 2002, when the IRAPIDA TELECOM felt the need to leave the HDS servers (they had physical problems). The current version of the CBSS is 2.1b which owns some tools, including: firewall (ipfw), remote access (telnet), NAT, bandwidth control (dummynet), QoS (altq), and many other functions. CBSS is a project of Christopher Giese'. Based on the PicoBSD. (It seems that the project breaks)

Labirynth BSD

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/labyrinthos/

Labyrinth is stable BSD BSD implementation meant the average user.
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73812

PenBSD (GONE)

Homepage: http://www.freesbie.org/saturnero/penBSD/ (GONE)

Was a Minimum FreeBSD suitable for USB flash drives. (43.9MB)

miniBSD

Homepage: http://www.minibsd.org/

The miniBSD project developed a set of scripts, thus reducing actual FreeBSD system to a small miniBSD distribution suitable for small media, such as USB memory or CF card. Size of distribution is usually 12-15MB (fits on 16M flash). This means that it is something between a PicoBSD system (floppy size), and a NanoBSD, or a penBSD. The miniBSD project provides a set of scripts, ranging from FreeBSD (4.x, 5.x, 6.x-CURRENT), automatically collects the required binary data, libs, config files and then creates a disk image that can fit on the CF card, or USB stick. The perfect choice for the development for a router, bridge, firewall, and VPN gateways.
Download: http://www.minibsd.org/download.php

Honey-BSD (ABANDONED)

Homepage: http://honey-bsd.sourceforge.net/index.html

Design and site is under construction. (project never came to fruition)

Other projects based on BSD systems, articles and tutorials to make BSD based systems

CentreCOM WR54-ID

CentreCOM WR54-ID of Allied Telesys, Co. router is based on NetBSD-in. Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network. The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network has released an open source wireless system based on NetBSD-in. Read this article for more information about the project.

FSMLabs's RTCore / BSD

Homepage: http://www.fsmlabs.com/

FSMLabs used as a netbook OS for general purpose in their RTCore BSD (RTCore / BSD) product. RTCore / BSD is' very fast, efficient and small realtime kernel which is based on the POSIX specification 10003.13 PS51. Using a two-part design of the kernel, RTCore / BSD OS runs as the lowest priority thread realtime kernel.

Ghost for Unix (g4u)

Homepage: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

g4u netbook is based bootable floppy / CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC hard disk in order to obtain a common kofniguracija on several computers using FTP. floppy / CD offers two functions. The first is that the compressed image of a local hard disk with signatures, upload to FTP server. The other is to restore that image via FTP, decompressing and writing to the disk, network configuration is obtained via DHCP. For more information, see g4u website.

XORP

Homepage: http://www.xorp.org/

XORP, or extensible Open Router Platform, a project to create an open-source routing system. It was first released in July 2004, and the project lead Atan Ghosh of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California.
Download: http://www.xorp.org/livecd.html

NetBSD Live! CD

NetBSD Live! The CD was originally developed by Jörg Braun, I was allowed to raise NetBSD 1.5.2/i386 with CDROM, some system settings configured, the selection of X config, then allows a select few that KDE windows manager. Since then, NetBSD-based live CD's have been used in a variety of environments. Can be easily created using the sysutils / mklivecd package.

Flashdist

Homepage: http://www.nmedia.net/chris/soekris/

Flashdist is embedded OpenBSD installer. It installs the OpenBSD disk, such as USB or IDE CompactFlash adapter, vnode pseudo disk device, a hard disk, or something else. Designed to install a minimal version of OpenBSD's networking. Installation works in such a way that the media always mount with signatures, read-only, unless there is a need to change the entry. http://user.berklix.org/dgw/ (FS Live FreeBSD project)

Additional related articles:

Building a bootable CD with FreeBSD firewall: http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/server/fwCD/index.html
How to Make a Bootable, Full System OpenBSD 3.2 CDROM: http://www.blackant.net/other/docs/howto-bootable-cdrom-openbsd.php
Scripts to automate setting up a bootable CD-ROM based FreeBSD system: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cdroot/
miniBSD (reducing FreeBSD): https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html
FreeBSD Remote Install: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/
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