Alpha, ARM, x86 (IA-32 and x86-64), PA-RISC, 68k, MIPS, PowerPC, SH3, SPARC, RISC-V, VAX
Kernel type
Monolithic with dynamically loadable modules, rump kernel
Userland
BSD
Influenced
Void Linux
Influenced by
386BSD
Default user interface
Unix shell
License
2-clause BSD license
Official website
netbsd.org
Tagline
"Of course it runs NetBSD"[3]
NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant officially released after 386BSD was forked.[4][5] It continues to be actively developed and is available for many platforms, including servers, desktops, handheld devices,[5] and embedded systems.[6][7]
The NetBSD project focuses on code clarity, careful design, and portability across many computer architectures. Its source code is publicly available and permissively licensed.[8][9][10]
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NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant officially...
Berkeley. The term "BSD" commonly refers to its open-source descendants, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD. BSD was initially called...
acknowledgments in a 1997 version of NetBSD. In addition, the clause presented a legal problem for those wishing to publish BSD-licensed software which relies...
Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variant options. The three most notable descendants in current use are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, which are all...
Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD in 1995 by forking NetBSD 1.0. The OpenBSD project emphasizes portability, standardization, correctness...
PlayStation 4 game consoles. The other BSD systems (OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD) also contain a large amount of FreeBSD code, and vice-versa[citation needed]...
DragonFly BSD, which was forked from FreeBSD 4.8, and Apple Inc.'s macOS, with its Darwin base including a large amount of code derived from FreeBSD. NetBSD is...
GNU/kFreeBSD live CD is Ging, which is no longer maintained. Debian GNU/NetBSD was an experimental port of GNU user-land applications to NetBSD kernel....
added in NetBSD-current in October 2017, making NetBSD the first BSD system to support KASLR. In 2003, OpenBSD became the first mainstream operating system...
design. Although 386BSD was short-lived, it served as the base for FreeBSD and NetBSD which began shortly afterwards. 386BSD was written mainly by Berkeley...
/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf as of systemd 207). Default setting for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Mac OS X is to have window scaling (and other features related...
open source BSDs: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, which are all derived from 386BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite by various routes. Both NetBSD and FreeBSD started life...
a somewhat lesser-known running BSD Daemon for the 4.4BSD version of the book in 1994. From 1994 to 2004, the NetBSD project used artwork by Shawn Mueller...
platforms such as the Linksys WRT54G Dell Networking Operating System; DNOS9 is NetBSD based, while OS10 uses the Linux kernel Extensible Operating System runs...
Dunwoodie's implementation for OpenBSD, written in C. Ryota Ozaki's wg(4) implementation for NetBSD, written in C. The FreeBSD implementation is written in...
The 'g' in this specific version stands for gratis. FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD and NetBSD use a BSD-licensed implementation instead of the GNU version; it...
into the official NetBSD source tree on September 10, 2005; it is available in 4.0 and later versions. FreeBSD has ported NetBSD's implementation, where...
FreeBSD 7.1 ULE was the default for the i386 and AMD64 architectures.[clarification needed] DTrace support was integrated in version 7.1, and NetBSD and...
sets of makefiles and patches provided by the BSD-based operating systems, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, as a simple method of installing software or...
routed, survives in several of its descendants, including FreeBSD and NetBSD. OpenBSD introduced a new implementation, ripd, in version 4.1 and retired...
problem. OpenBSD since version 5.5, released in May 2014, also uses a 64-bit time_t for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. In contrast to NetBSD, there is...
DragonFly BSD, retrieved 2 December 2013 Weinem, Mark (2007). "10 years of pkgsrc". NetBSD. Joerg Sonnenberger about pkgsrc on DragonFly BSD and his pkgsrc...
implementation from NetBSD for some time, but it was removed in 2014 due lack of maintainership and code rot. DragonFly BSD has had NetBSD's Bluetooth implementation...
the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects and was also a founding member of NetBSD. In 2004, De Raadt won the Free Software Award for his work on OpenBSD and OpenSSH...
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