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FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD

The BSD family of operating systems are free, open-source collaborative projects. Although they are many times considered harder to use and tend to support fewer hardware devices than commercial solutions such as Windows and Mac OS, their sheer stability makes them the most popular operating system for network server systems. Why are the BSD family so stable? What is the process in which they are written? Where did they come from?

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