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DesktopBSD

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DesktopBSD was a desktop oriented operating system built on FreeBSD, aiming to combine FreeBSD's stability with the K Desktop Environment 3's user friendliness, developed by the DesktopBSD Team, whose final official release, version 1.7, came on September 7, 2009, before the project was discontinued in 2015. It tracked FreeBSD's latest stable branch rather than forking it outright, used FreeBSD's own ports and package system for software installation, and supported both amd64 and i386 processors. The project restarted under new leadership in May 2010 after its original developer could no longer maintain it, and a 2013 forum post pointed to further revival efforts, including a September 2015 roadmap describing a planned GNOME 3 based version 2.0 that never shipped. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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BSD 2-Clause 2
Status
Status
Discontinued 1
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BSD 2-Clause License, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the license enum value this item already carries, resolved to a software license concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The license fact itself stays on the item unchanged.

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1. Wikipedia: DesktopBSD
  • entity record, description (status)
    DesktopBSD was a desktop oriented operating system built on FreeBSD, aiming to combine FreeBSD's stability with the K Desktop Environment 3's user friendliness, developed by the DesktopBSD Team, whose final official release, version 1.7, came on September 7, 2009, before the project was discontinued in 2015.
  • In Field: Operating Systems, Lead sentence
    DesktopBSD was a Unix-derived, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. Its goal was to combine the stability of FreeBSD with the ease of use of K Desktop Environment 3, the default graphical user interface.
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2. Wikidata: DesktopBSD
  • Wikidata Q1052272, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • infobox License field
    FreeBSD license from FreeBSD base system
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