There are many products based on FreeBSD. Information about these products and the version of FreeBSD they are based on is often difficult to come by, since this fact is not widely publicised.
Commercial Products
- Apple Inc.'s OS X,and iOS; the core of which (Darwin) is built on the XNU kernel (part Mach, part FreeBSD,[1] part Apple-derived code). Much of the UNIX userland tools are mostly based on FreeBSD code.[2]
- Blue Coat Systems network appliances [3]
- Calexium MailFountain is an Email Center appliance based on FreeBSD 8.1
- Borderware appliances (firewall, VPN, Anti-SPAM, Web filter etc.) are based on a FreeBSD kernel.[4]
- Check Point IPSO security appliances [5]
- Citrix Systems Netscaler Application Delivery Software is based on FreeBSD.[6]
- Coyote Point GX-series Web Acceleration and Load Balancer appliances[7]
- Dell (was EqualLogic) iSCSI SAN arrays[8]
- EfficientIP SOLIDserver DDI (DNS DHCP IPAM) appliances[9]
- Halon Security H/OS 2.4 is based on FreeBSD 9.0
- Hobnob WirelessWAN [10]
- IronPort AsyncOS is based on a FreeBSD kernel[11]
- Isilon Systems' OneFS, the operating system used on Isilon IQ-series clustered storage systems [12]
- Juniper Networks JUNOS [13]
- JUNOS prior to 5.0 was based on FreeBSD 2.2.6.
- JUNOS between 5.0 and 7.2 (inclusive) is based on FreeBSD 4.2.
- JUNOS 7.3 and higher is based on FreeBSD 4.10.
- JUNOS 8.5 is based on FreeBSD 6.1
- JUNOS 10.0 is based on FreeBSD 7.
- KACE Networks's KBOX 1000 & 2000 Series Appliances and the Virtual KBOX Appliance
- LineRate Proxy appliances[14]
- nCircle's IP360 security products use FreeBSD 6.x
- McAfee SecurOS, used in e.g. Firewall Enterprise (aka Sidewinder) [15]
- NetApp filers based on Data ONTAP[16]
- Netasq intrusion prevention appliances [17]
- Netflix Open Connect appliances [18]
- COMP VPN gateways, some of them certified by the Internal Security Agency for processing classified data[19]
- Panasas parallel network storage systems[20]
- Panasonic uses FreeBSD in their Viera TV receivers [21]
- Sandvine's network policy control products [22]
- Silicon Graphics International uses FreeBSD in their MAID disk arrays, formerly manufactured by COPAN.[23]
- Sophos's Email Appliance[24]
- Statseeker, Network Monitoring Software [25]
- St. Bernard Software iPrism web filter appliance[26]
- Symmetricom Timing Solutions[27]
- The Weather Channel's IntelliStar local forecast computer[28]
- VXworks[29]
Open Source products based on FreeBSD
- BSD Router Project - customized distribution of FreeBSD dedicated to offering IP routing services
- DesktopBSD – KDE-based desktop-oriented distribution
- PC-BSD – FreeBSD distribution aimed at desktop users
- FreeNAS – Open source storage platform
- FreeSBIE – Live CD
- GhostBSD – Gnome-based distribution, that also offers LXDE GUI
- M0n0wall – embedded firewall software package
- pfsense – firewall and router
- Frenzy – portable system administrator toolkit
- Zrouter [30]
Open Source products that use significant FreeBSD code
References
- ^ Apple (February 20, 2012). "Useful Mac OS X Terms: What is Darwin?". Apple. http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25634. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
- ^ Lucy (2007). "Inside the Mac OS X Kernel". 24th Chaos Communication Congress 24C3. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fa hrplan/attachments/986_inside_the_mac _osx_kernel.pdf. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
- ^ Alexander Wolfe (August 24, 2009). "FreeBSD Boosts Routing Architecture, With Blue Coat's Help". http://www.networkcomputing.com/data- center/229502991. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ John Linehan (2003). "IT Audit: Security Beyond The Checklist". SANS Institute. SANS Institute. http://it-audit.sans.org/community/pa pers/audit-borderware-65-firewall-aud itors-perspective_63. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ Check Point (November 8, 2010). "Release Notes and Getting Started, IPSO 6.2". http://downloads.checkpoint.com/dc/do wnload.htm?ID=10292. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ "Dependency on FreeBSD Version for Installing Specific Releases of NetScaler Application Delivery Software". Citrix. February 14, 2008. http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX 115764. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ Sean Michael Kerner (January 13, 2009). "Coyote Point Builds on FreeBSD to Accelerate". http://www.internetnews.com/infra/art icle.php/3795791/Coyote-Point-Builds- on-FreeBSD-to-Accelerate.htm. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ http://www.dell.com/EqualLogic
- ^ http://www.efficientip.com
- ^ http://www.hobnob.com
- ^ "Cisco IronPort AsyncOS". http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/vpnde vc/ps10128/ps10154/asyncos_index.html. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ Zach Loafman (December 16, 2008). "Isilon & FreeBSD". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlMocI wM5QU. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ Michael Bushong (March 14, 2012). "Giving Back to the FreeBSD Community". http://forums.juniper.net/t5/Architec ting-the-Network/Giving-Back-to-the-F reeBSD-Community/ba-p/133653. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet .com/datacenter/f5-acquires-linerate- for-layer-7-sdn-control.html
- ^ McAffe (March 2009). "McAffee Firewall Enterprise (Sidewinder) Administration Guide". https://kc.mcafee.com/resources/sites /MCAFEE/content/live/PRODUCT_DOCUMENT ATION/21000/PD21680/en_US/fe_70102_ag _7002122A00_en_us.pdf. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ Robert Watson (Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:31:03 +0000 (GMT)). "Google / FreeBSD Summer of Code application period now open". http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?2 0080324152918.V12107. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
- ^ Yvan VANHULLEBUS (September 2007). "NETASQ and BSD: a success story". NETASQ. EuroBSDCon. http://misc.allbsd.de/Vortrag/EuroBSD Con_2007/Yvan_VanHullebus/2007-09-15- NETASQ-BSD-pub.pdf. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- ^ http://opsec.eu/backup/OpenConnectDep loymentGuide-v2.4a.pdf
- ^ COMP. "Szyfrator ETA-VPN 100P". http://www.comp.com.pl/pl/oferta/rozw iazania_wlasne/sprzet;1914165649. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ Robert Watson (November 11, 2006). "How the FreeBSD Project Works". FreeBSD Project. University of Cambridge. http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd /2006eurobsdcon/20061111-eurobsdcon20 06-how-freebsd-works.pdf. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
- ^ http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs /tv/download/2010/down_navt.html
- ^ http://www.bsdcan.org/2011/schedule/e vents/232.en.html
- ^ Ken Merry (January 12, 2012). "SVN Commit Revision 229997". http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base /229997. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ^ "Sophos Email Appliance: overview". January 27, 2006. http://www.sophos.com/support/knowled gebase/article/14384.html. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ "User Guide – Version 2.8.x". http://www.statseeker.com/doc/2.8.x/h elp.html#operating_system. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ "Hardened OS and Kernel-Level URL Filtering". http://www.edgewave.com/products/web_ security/technology_klFiltering.asp. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ Ian Lepore (October 11, 2011). "ARM RAS code can fail to restart an atomic sequence". http://bugs.freebsd.org/161498. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com /search?q=cache:K4r_CHUMW6gJ:people.f reebsd.org/~jhb/papers/bsdcon/2003/ar ticle.ps+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=c lnk&gl=us
- ^ Robert Watson (November 11, 2006). "How the FreeBSD Project Works". FreeBSD Project. University of Cambridge. http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd /2006eurobsdcon/20061111-eurobsdcon20 06-how-freebsd-works.pdf. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
- ^ "Zrouter". http://www.zrouter.org. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
- ^ "FreeBSD – Raspberry Pi". http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=164., see also Raspbian#Software_build
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