🆚 FreeBSD vs. Unix

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Operating system
Operating system

About

FreeBSD is an open source Unix-like operating system designed for reliability, performance, and advanced networking across servers, desktops, and embedded systems.

It features a permissive BSD license, strong TCP/IP networking, a unified base system with an integrated package system offering over 30,000 third-party packages, the ZFS file system with snapshots and replication, the bhyve hypervisor, and jails for lightweight OS-level virtualization.

Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Operating Systems › Rank #9
Operating Systems › Rank #6

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Unix operating system is 9 times more popular than FreeBSD.
Total websites

Market share

Operating Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Unix is more popular in Germany, Japan, and the United States, while FreeBSD is more popular in Ukraine, Slovakia, and Belarus.
Germany
Japan
United States
Korea
Netherlands
Spain
France
United Kingdom
Russia
Ukraine

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Unix is more popular than FreeBSD in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#5,673
#10,255
#23,639
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