
The NetBSD Project
Dec 16, 2024 · NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices.
About NetBSD
NetBSD is an entirely free and open-source UNIX-like operating system developed by an international community. It isn't a "distribution" or variant, but has evolved over several decades to be a complete and unique operating system in the BSD family.
NetBSD releases
Formal releases provide a stable, supported platform for use in production systems. They are also the proper choice for starters and for everyone who wants to get to know NetBSD. The latest formal release is NetBSD 10.1 (release information). More …
The History of the NetBSD Project
NetBSD took its roots from the original UCB 4.3BSD via the Net/2 release and 386BSD. The NetBSD project was founded by Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass and Charles M. Hannum. Frustration with the quality of patches in the wild and the inability to get patches included in 386BSD led to the founding of the NetBSD project in 1993.
Announcing NetBSD 10.0 (Mar 28, 2024)
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 10.0, the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system. It represents cumulative improvements to the operating system since NetBSD 9.x was originally branched in 2019.
Chapter 1. What is NetBSD?
NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for many platforms, from 64-bit x86 servers and PC desktop systems to embedded ARM- and MIPS- based devices.
Diskless NetBSD HOW-TO
This guide is intended to help you set up the server(s) necessary to boot a NetBSD workstation over the network. The steps this HOW-TO describe do not require you to have any OS installed on your client machine, or even a hard drive on that machine (thus the name diskless).
CD-ROMs with NetBSD
Official NetBSD ISO images. The list of NetBSD ISO download sites provides a list of sites worldwide where these official ISO images can be downloaded. The iso directory on each mirror contains one image per port, and they are bootable on …
How to install NetBSD on an Apple Macbook with Core 2 Duo
The following example assumes that you are installing from a cd, that you want to have just OS X and NetBSD on the disk (a NetBSD-only installation is easy; other installation media or a third operating system work analogously), that you are installing amd64, and that OS X is already installed on an HFS+ partition.
NetBSD の特徴
NetBSD は USB に対応した最初のフリー OS であり、Apple が MacOS X をはじめるより前から Apple Power Macintosh マシンで USB を使っていました。 alpha , i386 , macppc をはじめとする、 適切なプラットフォームすべてで USB を利用することができます。