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The X.Org project provides users of a variety of UNIX® systems, including FreeBSD, with an excellent X Window system.

The WINE project is working to provide the ability to run Microsoft Windows® software on Intel based UNIX systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux.

NetBSD is another free 4.4BSD Lite based operating system which runs on several different architectures.

OpenBSD is another 4.4BSD derivative with focus on security.

Linux is another free UNIX® like system.

Lites is a 4.4BSD Lite based server and emulation library that provides free UNIX® functionality to a Mach based system.

The GNU Hurd project is another effort to develop a free UNIX® like operating system.

DragonFly BSD is based on FreeBSD 4.X but has a different set of development goals than FreeBSD.

illumos is an open source fork of OpenSolaris, which ultimately has its roots in a BSD derivative called SunOS.