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==Overview==

{{short description|Software that manages computer hardware resources}}

{{main|Operating system}}

An operating system (OS) is [[system software]] that manages computer hardware, [[computer software|software]] resources, and provides common [[daemon (computing)|services]] for computer programs.

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===FreeBSD===

{{Short description|Free Unix-like operating system}}

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[[FreeBSD]] is a [[free and open-source]] [[Unix-like]] [[operating system]] descended from the [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] (BSD), which was based on [[Research Unix]]. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular [[open-source software|open-source]] BSD operating system, accounting for more than three-quarters of all installed [[BSD licenses|simply, permissively licensed]] BSD systems.