NetBSD Servers
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NetBSD
NetBSD, like its sister project FreeBSD, was originally derived
from the 4.3BSD release from the Computer Systems Research Group
of the University of California, Berkeley, via the Networking/2
and 386BSD releases. The project began as a result of frustration
within the 386BSD developer community with the pace and direction
of the operating system's development. The four founders of the
NetBSD project, Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass and Charles
Hannum, felt that a more open development model would be beneficial
to the project; one which was centered on portable, clean, correct
code. Their aim was to produce a unified, multi-platform, production-quality,
BSD-based operating system.
Because of the importance of networks such as the Internet in the
distributed, collaborative nature of its development, de Raadt suggested
the name "NetBSD", which was readily accepted by the other
founders.
The NetBSD source code repository was established on March 21, 1993
and the first official release, NetBSD 0.8, was made in April, 1993.
This was derived from 386BSD 0.1 plus the version 0.2.2 unofficial
patchkit, with several programs from the Net/2 release missing from
386BSD re-integrated, and various other improvements.
In August the same year, NetBSD 0.9 was released, which contained
many enhancements and bug fixes. This was still a PC-platform-only
release, although by this time work was underway to add support
for other architectures.
NetBSD 1.0 was released in October, 1994. This was the first multi-platform
release, supporting the PC, HP 9000 Series 300, Amiga, 68k Macintosh,
Sun-4c series and the PC532. Also in this release, the legally encumbered
Net/2-derived source code was replaced with equivalent code from
4.4BSD-lite, in accordance with the USL v BSDi lawsuit settlement.
In 1994, for disputed reasons, one of the founders, Theo de Raadt,
was forced out of the project. He later founded a new project, OpenBSD,
from a forked version of NetBSD 1.0 near the end of 1995.
NetBSD 1.x releases continued at roughly annual intervals, with
minor "patch" releases in between. In 1998, NetBSD 1.3
introduced the pkgsrc packages collection. By 1999, NetBSD 1.4 had
been released, supporting 16 different platforms in its binary release,
and several others in the source code.
In December, 2004, NetBSD 2.0 was released. The change in major
version number signified the introduction of a native threads implementation
for all platforms (based on the Scheduler Activations model) and
support for SMP on several different CPU architectures. 48 platforms
were supported in the 2.0 binary release, with another six in source
code form only.
From release 2.0 onwards, each major NetBSD release corresponds
to an incremented major version number, i.e. the major releases
following 2.0 are 3.0, 4.0 and so on. The previous minor releases
are now divided into separate "stable" x.y maintenance
releases and "security/critical fix" x.y.z releases.
NetBSD Servers
At the source code level, NetBSD is very nearly entirely compliant
with POSIX.1 (IEEE 1003.1-1990) standard and mostly compliant with
POSIX.2 (IEEE 1003.2-1992).
NetBSD also provides system call-level binary compatibility on
the appropriate processor architectures with several UNIX-derived
and UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux, other BSD variants
like FreeBSD, Apple's Darwin, Solaris, HP-UX, SunOS 4 and SCO UNIX.
This allows NetBSD users to run many applications that are only
distributed in binary form for other operating systems, usually
with no significant loss of performance.
A variety of "foreign" disk filesystem formats are also
supported in NetBSD, including FAT, NTFS, Linux ext2fs, Mac OS X
UFS, RISC OS FileCore/ADFS and AmigaOS Fast File System.
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