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FreeBSD is one of the oldest, since the year 1993, the largest, and most successful open-source projects in the world.

FreeBSD is a complete operating system including kernel, userland, documentation, and tools.

FreeBSD has over 33,000 3rd party open-source packages.

FreeBSD was created and distributed by a community of highly technical and commited contributors (over 400 active developers and thousands of contributors).

FreeBSD works on Intel / AMD x86 32 and 64-bit, 32 and 64 bit ARM, RISC-V, PowerPC, MIPS, AWS, Azure, GCP.

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