NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly customizable Unix-like operating system for a variety of platforms, from 64-bit AMD Athlon servers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices . Its concise design, standard code, and many advanced features make it widely acclaimed in the industry and academia, and users can get support through the complete source code . Many programs are readily available through the NetBSD Packages Collection.
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| Developer | NetBSD Foundation |
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| operating system family | BSD |
| operating status | support |
| source mode | open source |
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| kernel class | single core |
| license | BSD license |
| Official website | www.netbsd.org |
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history
NetBSD, like its sister FreeBSD, is based on 4.3BSD via the Networking/2 and 386BSD from the University of California, Berkeley. The project was started because of the failure of the 386BSD development community in terms of the pace and direction of operating system development. The four founders of NetBSD, Chris Demetriou, Theo de Rauter , Adam Glass, and Charles Hannum, felt that an open development model would help the NetBSD project. Their goal is to develop a cross-platform, high-quality operating system based on the Berkeley software suite .
Due to the importance of the network for common development, Theo de Raut suggested that the name of the project be called NetBSD, which was agreed by the other three sponsors.
The NetBSD source code repository was established on March 21, 1993, and the first version, NetBSD 0.8, was released in April 1993.
In September of the same year, NetBSD released version 0.9, which contained many amendments and enhancements, but it was limited to running on desktop computers .
In October 1994, NetBSD released version 1.0, which is a multi-platform version of NetBSD.
characteristic
portability
As the project's slogan ("Of course it runs NetBSD") indicates, NetBSD has been ported to a large number of 32- and 64-bit architectures. From the VAX minicomputer to the Pocket PC, there is even support for the Dreamcast game console. As of 2009, NetBSD supports 57 hardware platforms (across 15 different processor architectures). NetBSD's distribution supports more platforms than any single GNU/Linux distribution. The kernel and user spaces of these platforms are all centrally managed CVS source code trees. Currently, unlike other kernels such as μCLinux, the NetBSD kernel does not require the presence of an MMU on any given target architecture .
external link
- NetBSD official website ( page archive backup , stored in)
- Jibbed ( page archive backup , stored on) NetBSD Live CD
- NetBSD Community Blog
- NetBSD Community Wiki
- ^ "NetBSD 9.3 released" ; Author name string: Nia Alarie; Language of work or title: English; Publication date: August 6, 2022; Retrieved date: August 6, 2022.
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