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FreeBSD®
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FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. The FreeBSD logo
and The Power to Serve are trademarks of The FreeBSD Foundation.

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About FreeBSD
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FreeBSD is an operating system for a variety of platforms which focuses on
features, speed, and stability. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX®
developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and
maintained by a large community.

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Relations with OPNsense
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OPNsense is build on top of FreeBSD. The aim of the OPNsense team is to stay as
close to the original FreeBSD source as possible. OPNsense can be installed on
a standard FreeBSD installation, this way a hosted system can be converted
easily to run OPNsense. A bootstrap script is available to make the installation
process a joy full experience.

.. Seealso::

  To convert your FreeBSD hosted installation to OPNsense, see the OPNsense
  bootstrap script on `OPNsense's update tools @ github <https://github.com/opnsense/update/>`__
