Get FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Operating System is available via images on this page or directly from cloud vendors. Please read the installation guide before downloading an image.
For information on supported architectures, see the Platforms page.
Choosing an Image
FreeBSD images are provided in several formats to cover different installation and deployment scenarios:
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Installer images: DVD ISOs (
disc1,dvd1) allow offline installation;bootonlyISO requires a network connection. USB images come as fullmemstick(offline) ormini-memstick(network required). -
Virtual machine images: Pre-installed systems for hypervisors and cloud environments.
BASIC-CIimages are minimal FreeBSD builds with cloudinit-compatible nuageinit(7) scripting installed by default, to enable custom automated scripting on startup. These are used by other projects to run test suites; they are not part of FreeBSD’s own CI infrastructure. -
SD Card images: Pre-installed systems for single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi.
Production Quality
Legacy Production Quality
Development Snapshots
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CURRENTimages are weekly snapshots built for testing the bleeding-edge main development branch. -
STABLEimages are weekly snapshots built for testing what will become pre-release images. -
ALPHA,BETA, and release candidates (RC) are pre-release images, please test these if available.
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD 15.1-STABLE
FreeBSD 14.4-STABLE
Applications and Utility Software
Fastly CDN
The FreeBSD project gratefully acknowledges the support of Fastly, providing CDN acceleration, caching, and bandwidth to bring FreeBSD images and packages to our globally distributed community.
