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= Web Resources

* <<general,General UNIX(R) Information>>
* <<xwin,The X Window System>>
* <<related,Related Operating System Projects>>

[[general]]
== General UNIX(R) Information

* https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freebsd[FreeBSD Distrowatch page]
* https://www.bsdnow.tv/[BSD Now podcasts]
* https://www.oreilly.com/[O'Reilly Media, Inc.]

[[xwin]]
== The X Window System

* The https://www.x.org/[X.Org] project provides users of a variety of UNIX(R) systems, including FreeBSD, with an excellent X Window system.
* The https://www.winehq.org/[WINE] project is working to provide the ability to run Microsoft Windows(R) software on Intel based UNIX systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux.

[[related]]
== Related Operating System Projects

* https://www.netbsd.org/[*NetBSD*] is another free 4.4BSD Lite based operating system which runs on several different architectures.
* https://www.openbsd.org/[*OpenBSD*] is another 4.4BSD derivative with focus on security.
* https://www.kernel.org/[*Linux*] is another free UNIX(R) like system.
* https://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/lites/html/[*Lites*] is a 4.4BSD Lite based server and emulation library that provides free UNIX(R) functionality to a Mach based system.
* The https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html[*GNU Hurd*] project is another effort to develop a free UNIX(R) like operating system.
* https://www.dragonflybsd.org/[*DragonFly BSD*] is based on FreeBSD 4.X but has a different set of development goals than FreeBSD.
* https://www.illumos.org[*illumos*] is an open source fork of OpenSolaris, which ultimately has its roots in a BSD derivative called SunOS.
