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What are the best permissive licensed operating systems?
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Best permissive licensed operating systems
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OpenBSD
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BSD, ISC and other permissive licenses
Berkeley Software Distribution
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FreeBSD
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BSD
Research Unix>Berkeley Software Distribution>
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DragonFly BSD
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Research Unix>Berkeley Software Distribution>FreeBSD
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Haiku
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MIT
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Redox-OS
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MIT
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OpenBSD
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License:
BSD, ISC and other permissive licenses
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Berkeley Software Distribution
Package Manager:
OpenBSD package tools
Developer:
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FreeBSD
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FreeBSD
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FreeBSD
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Secure and stable
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Not for everyday use as a Desktop
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License:
BSD
Based On:
Research Unix>Berkeley Software Distribution>
OS Family:
UNIX (BSD)
Package Manager:
Ports
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Large repository of precompiled packages and highly customizable ports
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Installing with "software source code ports" and software packages can not be mixed
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Easy to install
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Hardware support is lagging
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BSD license
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DragonFly BSD
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Haiku
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MIT
OS Family:
BeOS-like
Widget Toolkit:
Interface Kit
Programming Language:
C++, C
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Slint, iced
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