FreeBSD
FreeBSD Foundation, Boulder, Colorado, United StatesFreeBSD 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.
According to our data, FreeBSD is the 10th most popular operating system on the web.
It has 0.4% of the operating system market share and is detected on 0.05% of all websites.
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FreeBSD is available for free.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Operating Systems
- Rank: 10
- Market share: 0.4%
🏆 FreeBSD Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Austria in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Russia in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Operating Systems category.
⚡ Sites Using FreeBSD
We have data on 1,764 websites that use the FreeBSD operating system. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using FreeBSD is distrowatch.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #14,938 | Hong Kong | English | |
| 2 | #44,776 | Norway | English | |
| 3 | #22,136 | Turkey | American English | |
| 4 | #42,333 | United States | English | |
| 5 | United States | English | ||
| 6 | #44,651 | Thailand | Thai | |
| 7 | #16,381 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 8 | #86,006 | Germany | English | |
| 9 | #63,905 | Portugal | Portuguese | |
| 10 | Iceland | American English | ||
| 11 | #94,017 | Thailand | Thai | |
| 12 | #64,672 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 13 | #75,132 | English | ||
| 14 | #84,027 | United States | English | |
| 15 | #52,653 | Lithuania | Lithuanian | |
| 16 | #63,455 | United States | English | |
| 17 | #1,141,944 | Estonia | Estonian | |
| 18 | #304,184 | Germany | German | |
| 19 | #107,989 | Sweden | Swedish | |
| 20 | #72,206 | Ukraine | Ukrainian |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use FreeBSD:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using FreeBSD are from the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- United States 18.2%
- Japan 13.9%
- Germany 13.8%
- Ukraine 6.5%
- Russia 6.2%
- Czech Republic 3.7%
- Austria 3.6%
- Slovakia 2.7%
- Netherlands 2.7%
- Other 28.7%
Most FreeBSD users speak English, German, or Japanese.
- English 35.9%
- German 15.2%
- Japanese 13.1%
- Russian 7.5%
- Ukrainian 4.1%
- Czech 3.2%
- Spanish 2.6%
- Slovak 2.2%
- Dutch 2.1%
- Other 14.1%
The FreeBSD operating system is especially popular on .com, .de, and .org top-level domains.
- .com 23.8%
- .de 10.5%
- .org 8.4%
- .net 7.2%
- .jp 5.3%
- .ru 4.7%
- .cz 2.9%
- .at 2.7%
- .sk 2.3%
- Other 32.2%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing FreeBSD include business, Internet services, and education and reference.
- Business 16.2%
- Internet Services 13.7%
- Education/Reference 12%
- Software/Hardware 7.2%
- Marketing/Merchandising 6.5%
- Online Shopping 4.5%
- Entertainment 4.1%
- Public Information 3.8%
- Travel 3.1%
- Other 28.9%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind FreeBSD?
FreeBSD is owned by the FreeBSD Foundation, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
Can I use FreeBSD for free?
Yes, it is a free operating system.
It is also an open-source solution, and you can access its source code on cgit.freebsd.org/src/.
Which country uses FreeBSD the most?
The majority of FreeBSD users are from the United States.
Who uses FreeBSD?
According to our data, FreeBSD is used on over a thousand sites, including such established ones as distrowatch.com,
scribus.net, and
bilkent.edu.tr.
Do academic institutions use FreeBSD?
Yes. The most prominent of these are bilkent.edu.tr,
latech.edu, and
mcu.ac.th. Overall, we know of 4 academic websites in the United States that use FreeBSD.
How does FreeBSD compare to its competitors?
FreeBSD is a moderately popular operating system, ranking ahead of 12 other operating systems we track.
👉 See Also
- ✨ Related technologies
- 💼 All technologies from FreeBSD Foundation
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,866,278 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.