Language: English
License: FreeWare / Install / System
Requires: LINUX
Size: 659864 KB
Rating:
Release Date: 2010-2-10 8:17:44
Author: http://netbsd.org/
Screenshot:
Product Description
NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source
operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron
machines and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its
clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both
production and research environments, and it is user-supported with
complete source. Many applications are easily available through The
NetBSD Packages Collection.
NetBSD is a highly integrated system. In addition to its highly
portable, high performance kernel, NetBSD features a complete set of
user utilities, compilers for several languages, the X Window System,
firewall software and numerous other tools, all accompanied by full
source code. The NetBSD Packages Collection, pkgsrc, contains over
5,700 packages. Binary package releases for a number of platforms are
currently in progress.
The NetBSD operating system is a full-featured, open source, UNIX-like
operating system descended from the Berkeley Networking Release 2
(Net/2), 4.4BSD-Lite, and 4.4BSD-Lite2. NetBSD runs on 57 different
system architectures featuring 17 machine architectures across 17
distinct CPU families, and is being ported to more.
NetBSD is distributed in three forms: formal releases, NetBSD-release,
and NetBSD-current. Formal releases are done periodically and include
well-tested binaries, source code, and installation tools.
NetBSD-release is a daily updated snapshot of the release branch,
which normally will become the next patch release. NetBSD-current is a
nightly distribution of the latest development sources, meant for
people who want the absolute latest software, and don't mind an
occasional bug.
NetBSD 5.0 continues our long tradition with major improvements in
stability, performance, networking, security, also includes support
for two new platforms (iyonix and hp700), and many new peripherals.
Far reaching improvements to the network stack will not only provide
better performance but also make NetBSD an excellent choice for a VPN
gateway. PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) framework adds more
flexibility to NetBSD's user management and simplifies integration
into heterogeneous networks. The kernel, libraries and utilities can
now handle filesystems larger than two terabytes, and support for Xen
2.0 allows hosting many virtual servers on a single machine.