List of BSD operating systems

| Offers a complete web UI for easily controlling, deploying and managing FreeBSD jails, containers and Bhyve/Xen hypervisor virtual environments.

| Originally forked from FreeBSD 4.8, now developed in a different direction

| Previously known as FreeNAS.

| GhostBSD is a FreeBSD OS distro oriented for desktops and laptops. Its goal is to combine the stability and security of FreeBSD with OpenRC, OS packages and Mate graphical user interface. GhostBSD comes as livecd for users to test before installing.

| HardenedBSD is a security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD. The HardenedBSD Project is implementing many exploit mitigation and security technologies on top of FreeBSD.

| A desktop system for creators that focuses on simplicity, elegance, and usability.

| For Juniper routers

| Midnight BSD forked away from FreeBSD 6.1 Beta

| Previously known as NAS4Free, is a network-attached storage (NAS) server software. It is a continuation of the original FreeNAS code.

| Persistent live system for USB flash drives

| OPNsense is a FreeBSD-based firewall tailored for use as a firewall and router that was forked from pfSense.

| pfSense is a FreeBSD-based firewall tailored for use as a firewall and router.

| The PlayStation 3 operating system

| The PlayStation 4 operating system

| FreeBSD based firmware for embedded devices

| ULBSD is a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. It aims to be easy to install and ready-to-use immediately by providing pre-installed graphical KDE5 user desktop environment.

|ravynOS is a FreeBSD-based OS aimed at providing "the finesse of macOS".

| Discontinued

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| Discontinued.{{cite web |url=http://www.freebsdnews.net/2010/01/12/updated-fbsd-based-projects-and-systems-pag/ |title=Updated: FBSD based Projects and Systems page |publisher=FreeBSD News |date=2010-01-12 |access-date=2014-02-16 |archive-date=2013-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212174547/http://www.freebsdnews.net/2010/01/12/updated-fbsd-based-projects-and-systems-pag/ |url-status=dead }} Was a desktop-oriented FreeBSD variant using K Desktop Environment 3.5.

| Discontinued

| Discontinued. Formerly DamnSmallBSD; a small live FreeBSD environment geared toward developers and system administrators.{{cite web|url=https://code.google.com/p/evoke/ |title=evoke - Formerly DamnSmallBSD - Google Project Hosting |date= |access-date=2014-02-16}}

| Discontinued

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| Discontinued. A "portable system administrator toolkit". It generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis.

| Discontinued in 2020. Paid homage to desktop BSD projects of the past like PC-BSD and TrueOS with its graphical interface and adds additional tools like a live, hybrid USB / DVD image.

| Discontinued{{cite mailing list|url=https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00005.html|title=Release Team Sprint Results|date=2014-11-09|mailing-list=debian-devel-announce|first=Jonathan|last=Wiltshire}}

| Discontinued

| Discontinued. Gentoo/*BSD was a subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the FreeBSD operating system.

| Discontinued

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| Discontinued. security appliances

| Discontinued

| Discontinued.{{citation|title=m0w0wall discontinued 2014}} Successor is OPNsense. m0n0wall was an embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants. It provided a small image which can be put on Compact Flash cards as well as on CDROMs and hard disks. It ran on a number of embedded platforms and generic PCs.

| Discontinued

| Discontinued. Nokia IP security appliances

| Discontinued. A lightweight operating system that aimed to bring the flexibility and philosophy of Arch Linux to BSD-based operating systems. The Project has been inactive since 2017.

| Discontinued. FreeBSD for Cavium Networks OCTEON

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| Discontinued. TrueOS (formerly PC/BSD) was a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD based on ZFS boot-environments, Lumina (desktop environment), and the sysadm administration framework; reinvented as Trident OS on top of Void Linux, retained many BSD aesthetics.

| Discontinued. Many of its extensions were integrated into FreeBSD. Only activity on trustedbsd-discuss mailing list is spam (as of 2020-12-22).

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|BSD 4.3 Tahoe for VAX

| Gentoo/*BSD subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the DragonFly BSD operating system

| Was a DragonFly based distribution.

| Discontinued. BlackBSD was a NetBSD-based Live CD, with security tools on it and fluxbox as a window manager

| Discontinued. NetBSD fork with main goal to be more modern in some aspects than NetBSD itself. Its most noticeable differences were back-committed to the main project.

| fdgw is a tool kit to build a minimal NetBSD bootable disk, with a primary focus on routers.

| Powerful and robust operating system that runs on Force10 TeraScale E-Series switches/routers.

| The software framework used by IIJ's SEIL/X CPE routers, built on NetBSD.

| NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks.

| Debian GNU/NetBSD was a project to combine Debian with the kernel of NetBSD. It was abandoned in 2002 and has not seen active maintenance ever since.

| Discontinued. Gentoo/*BSD was a subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the NetBSD operating system.

| Discontinued. irBSD was a digital forensics kit based on the NetBSD operating system, designed for cryptography, penetration testing, data recovery, reverse engineering, privacy protection and other security tasks.

| Live CD based on NetBSD

| Inactive. A free firewall solution based on NetBSD and targeting i386 devices.

| OS108 is a desktop-oriented operating system based on NetBSD.

| Multipurpose framework for building embedded systems based on NetBSD.

| The operating system for the Ericsson SmartEdge router series

| System creation tool based on NetBSD, primarily aimed at building modern, lightweight, fast micro VMs.

| OpenBSD fork which tends to be free from GPL-licensed software.{{Cite web|url=http://aeriebsd.org/about.html|title=AerieBSD|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502122433/http://aeriebsd.org/about.html|archive-date=2015-05-02|url-status=dead|access-date=2016-05-16}}

| Distribution of OpenBSD for Spanish speakers,{{cite web|url=http://aprendiendo.pasosdejesus.org/ |title=Novedades |publisher=Aprendiendo.pasosdejesus.org |date= |access-date=2014-02-16}} since 2005 new versions are released around 3 months after OpenBSD's releases, source in GitHub,{{cite web|url=https://github.com/pasosdeJesus/adJ |title=pasosdeJesus/adJ · GitHub |publisher=Github.com |date= |access-date=2014-02-16}} to learn how to install there is a challenge with badge on P2PU{{cite web|author= |url=https://p2pu.org/es/groups/openbsd-adj-como-sistema-de-escritorio/ |title=Reto: adJ como sistema operativo de escritorio |language=es |publisher=P2PU |date= |access-date=2014-02-16}}

| Discontinued.

| Discontinued.{{cite web|author= |url=https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig/wiki/Faq |title=Faq 路 bitrig/bitrig Wiki 路 GitHub |publisher=Github.com |date=2013-10-04 |access-date=2014-02-16}} Was an OpenBSD fork with main goal to be more modern in some aspects than OpenBSD.

| Customized OpenBSD installation script for embedded systems, intended to make OpenBSD fit into small media like compact flash cards.

| Live CD featuring the Enlightenment DR17 window manager

| A firewall with UTM features. Discontinued 2009 in place for UTMFW{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/comixwall |title=ComixWall |access-date=2024-11-27}}

| ekkoBSD was a Unix-like operating system based on OpenBSD 3.3, also incorporating code from other BSD-like operating systems. Its focus was on security and easy administration.

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| OpenBSD fork with main application in CNC field. It is almost inactive.

| Providing both LiveDVD and LiveUSB for i386/amd64/arm64. Highly customizable by user. Tracking errata on OpenBSD-stable.

| Gentoo/*BSD was a subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the OpenBSD operating system.

| LiveCD of OpenBSD

| Discounted. Fork of OpenBSD with all non-free binaries removed.

| Fork of the UNIX-like BSD operating system descendant OpenBSD 3.0, begun in July 2002. The project's objective to produce a free and fully secure, complete system, but with a small footprint.

| Core system based mostly on OpenBSD and some NetBSD code for 32-bit i386 and SPARC, updated via infrequent snapshots and by following "current". Additional packages via MirPorts and pkgsrc are no longer updated.

| Was a live CD originally based on OpenBSD 3.8

| Firewall and NAT router tool

| Was a live DVD/CD system, based on OpenBSD

| SONaFR is a small system with router/NAT/firewalling capabilities that fits on a single floppy.

| Successor of ComixWall, a firewall with UTM features

| LiveUSB OpenBSD is a project started around 2009 for creating OpenBSD based bootable USB flash images. There are 3 variants, one with Gnome, a minimal text only version and an XFCE desktop image.

| LiveCD OpenBSD is sister project of LiveUSB-OpenBSD and this gives users a Live CD/DVD bootable distribution where the user gets to experience OpenBSD without installing to disk. There are 3 flavors, one with XFCE, one with MATE desktop and one with KDE.

| Void Linux is a Linux distribution created in 2008 by Juan Romero Pardines, a former developer of NetBSD. It uses its own independent package manager, XBPS. It also has elements inspired by NetBSD, such xbps-src, a source package management system inspired by pkgsrc, an adaption of NetBSD's wtf utility, and also uses runit as its init system instead of systemd.

| CRUX is a Linux distribution mainly targeted at expert computer users. It uses BSD-style initscripts and utilizes a ports system similar to a BSD-based operating system.

| Chimera Linux is a Linux distribution that uses musl libc and core utilities based on FreeBSD.

| Sabotage is an experimental Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. It uses NetBSD curses and has a lightweight multithreaded package and build manager, named butch.