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Top 23 Shell Freebsd Projects
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uac
UAC is a powerful and extensible incident response tool designed for forensic investigators, security analysts, and IT professionals. It automates the collection of artifacts from a wide range of Unix-like systems, including AIX, ESXi, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, NetScaler, OpenBSD and Solaris.
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bastille
Bastille is an open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.
Project mention: Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-05I’ve found Bastille really simple and great for creating and managing jails https://bastillebsd.org/
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wikiman
Wikiman is a universal offline documentation search engine for manual pages, tldr-pages, ArchWiki, Gentoo Wiki, DevDocs, and FreeBSD documentation
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unifi-pfsense
A script that installs the UniFi Controller software on pfSense and other FreeBSD systems
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robox
The tools needed to robotically create/configure/provision a large number of operating systems, for a variety of hypervisors, using packer.
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unix-and-linux-sysadmin-notes
Unix and Linux system administration handbook by Evi Nemeth Garth Snyder Trent R. Hein Ben Whaley Dan Mackin
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Project mention: Mommy's here to support you, in any shell, on any system | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-25
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- Networking stack. Good. Stable. Makes sense to me.
For a nice graphical UI Linux is more smooth but if you are willing to tinker it can work. As Linux gets all the attention you will see stuff such as Chromium lag behind.
I can understand that can scare people off. But FreeBSD feels like a comfortable old glove for me. I will suffer the minor holes. My beard har grayed.
If waiting for a laptop I would perhaps wait for FreeBSD 15 for much needed improvements in WIFI. If you want fast WIFI today you need weird hacks routing through a Linux VM[1]. It works rather well but it is honestly a bit clunky.
[1] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
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iscsi-target-ramdisk
Remote boot your Linux, Windows or FreeBSD OS with PXE + iSCSI on another computer
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blockor
Protect BSD Unix computer servers from brute-force attacks. It works on top of the OpenBSD Packet Filter(PF) firewall.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Freebsd projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | iRedMail | 1,802 |
| 2 | uac | 1,376 |
| 3 | bastille | 1,086 |
| 4 | wikiman | 973 |
| 5 | vm-bhyve | 879 |
| 6 | unifi-pfsense | 782 |
| 7 | robox | 664 |
| 8 | fnt | 625 |
| 9 | unix-and-linux-sysadmin-notes | 487 |
| 10 | mommy | 453 |
| 11 | poudriere | 442 |
| 12 | minio-service | 397 |
| 13 | freebsd-wifibox | 247 |
| 14 | BSDRP | 203 |
| 15 | installDesktopFreeBSD | 110 |
| 16 | rocinante | 74 |
| 17 | jailer | 63 |
| 18 | hcloud-freebsd | 32 |
| 19 | linux2free | 30 |
| 20 | ssh-hardening | 28 |
| 21 | iscsi-target-ramdisk | 25 |
| 22 | FreeBSD-Xfce4-VMware-Install-Guide | 24 |
| 23 | blockor | 12 |
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