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NetBSDNetBSD is one of the freely redistributable versions of the BSD Unix-like operating system, along with FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Darwin.
NetBSD was the first of the modern open-source BSDss to produce a formal release, with 0.8 in May 1993.
NetBSD and FreeBSD are derived from the original UCB 4.3BSD via the Networking/2 release and 386BSD. OpenBSD forked from NetBSD around the end of 1995. The current (March 2004) release of NetBSD is version 1.6.2.
NetBSD has been ported to a vast number of architectures; the NetBSD motto is "Of course it runs NetBSD."
The binaries for the 58+ architectures are built from a single source code tree, so feature additions in machine independent areas benefit all platformss immediately, with no re-porting required.
Driver development is also machine independent, with the driver for a specific card serving whether that card is in a PCI slot on an i386, Alpha, PowerPC, SPARC, or other architecture with PCI buses.
This platform independence helps greatly in developing embedded systems, especially starting in NetBSD 1.6, with the whole toolchain of compilers, assemblers, linkers, and other tools fully supporting cross-compiling.
NetBSD features its own collection of 3rd party software, the NetBSD Packages Collection or pkgsrc, which consists of more than 4,000 packages as of Jan 2004. Installing things like GNOME, KDE, the Apache server or Perl are just a matter of changing into the right directory and typing "make install". This will fetch sources, unpack, configure, build and install the package such that it can be removed again later.
An alternative to compiling everything is to use a precompiled binary package. Either way, any prerequisites/dependencies will be installed automatically by the packages system, with no need for manual intervention.
Following its mantra of portability, the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc) has been made portable not only across all the hardware platforms that run NetBSD, but also—with the help of an autoconf-based bootstrap system—on many other operating systems, such as Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Darwin/MacOS X, IRIX etc.
"NETBSD" is a registered trademark of The NetBSD Foundation as of 2004 April 20.[1]
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The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
NetBSD is a free multi-platform operating system based on 4.4BSD Lite.
http://www.netbsd.org/
The Unofficial NetBSD Web Pages
Some information on NetBSD/alpha and related topics.
http://www.imrryr.org/NetBSD/
NetBSD Information
NetBSD information and links.
http://netbsd.bbin.com/
NetBSD Mailing List Archives
A complete, browsable and searchable index of all NetBSD related Mailing lists.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/mlist/
hubertf's NetBSD page
Other links related to the NetBSD operating system.
http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/NetBSD/
UVM Virtual Memory System
The new virtual memory system introduced with NetBSD 1.4
http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck/tech/uvm/
NetBSD Developer Resources
Shell accounts for developers porting software to NetBSD.
http://www.rmkhome.com/NetBSD/
BSD Today Article
Information on CD ripping and MP3 creation with NetBSD.
http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/March/Features429.html
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d System
Paper on the implementation of NetBSD 1.5's new startup system. PDF format.
http://www.mewburn.net/luke/papers/rc.d.pdf
Scheduler Activations on NetBSD
Paper regarding the implementation of scheduler activations on NetBSD.
http://web.mit.edu/nathanw/www/usenix/
The Evolution of NetBSD
A term paper by Anne Robinson that gives an overview of NetBSD's history.
http://www.ender.com/~dive/annes_files/evolution.html
My Journal of NetBSD Experiences
A journal of Jeremy Reed's experiences with NetBSD.
http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/netbsd/diary.html
What Worked for Me on NetBSD
Newbie to newbie how-to pages.
http://starling.us/gus_netbsd
A Brief NetBSD Tutorial
A very nice tutorial for NetBSD beginners.
http://www.ninthwonder.com/info/netbsd_tutorial.html
NetBSD Installation on an Apple Network Server
Site describes how to install NetBSD on an Apple Network Server (in Russian)
http://ansman.by.ru
Benedikt Meurer's NetBSD Page
Why he uses NetBSD. Content includes NetBSD related tips, tricks, and links.
http://fwdn.de/NetBSD/
The Uptimes Project
This project keeps live uptimes of NetBSD and other operating systems.
http://uptimes.wonko.com
A Minimal NetBSD Boot Floppy
A short guide on building a tiny, embeddable NetBSD boot floppy.
http://home.gate.net/~saider/Brian/NetBSD/Embedded/boot_floppy.html
Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems
Vice President of firm. Main business is embedded market, markets NetBSD as an embedded OS, and sells boxed release. Says how it is better than VXWorks, Linux, QNX, Windows CE. Short article with forum comments. [OSNews.com]
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3187
NetBSD Forums
Relatively new forum covering various aspect of using NetBSD.
http://www.kordula.de/forum/
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