MirBSD
MirBSD originated as a patch set against OpenBSD-current, an ultra secure operating system and NetBSD derivate, and has since also incorporated changes from NetBSD, a 4.4BSD-derived ultra portable operating system. It features bugfixes, code removal for the sake of simplicity, and feature enhancements over stock OpenBSD as well as a much more up-to-date GNU toolchain, careful integration of patches from other projects (such as KAME), and many improvements. It works on the Intel Pentium and some 80486 machines with more than 32 MiB RAM and the SPARC, and a port to the PowerPC Macintosh is in preparation.
| Tags | Operating Systems Operating System Kernels BSD |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original BSD Revised |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD OpenBSD NetBSD |
Recent releases
- 27 Apr 2009 21:29
Changes: This snapshot contains various bugfixes as well as updates to OpenSSH, mksh, and other parts of the system. There have also been some changes to the ext2 filesystem code.
- 30 Oct 2008 23:48
Changes: This snapshot contains makefs for making ISO images, as well as new i18n (OPTU-8) functions. mksh has been updated to R36. Bugs in the time functions have been fixed, and some kernel updates were imported from OpenBSD.
- 23 Jul 2008 07:08
Changes: Relative to the #10 release, much code has been cleaned up, especially regarding developer interaction, sparc support, CDs, Live-CDs, etc. Security patches have been applied, many ports were updated or fixed. The new /usr/dbin and /usr/dsbin directories contain dynamically linked executables from /bin for use with fakeroot. mksh is at R35b with some bugs fixed and some new features. BSDstats "phone-home" has been removed since the site is often down. VIA C3 Hardware-AES is used for swapencrypt.
- 15 Mar 2008 23:18
Changes: This release features Unicode (UTF-8) support and integrates iconv. Besides i386, sparc (v8) is now a fully supported platform. The system shell mksh is now at R33. Numerous small bugs have been fixed all over the place. The native MirPorts Framework now also works on MidnightBSD, in addition to Darwin and OpenBSD and Interix, and NetBSD pkgsrc works on MirBSD.
- 30 Aug 2007 07:38
Changes: This snapshot (for i386 and sparc) fixes some XFree86 font problems from earlier RCs. The framebuffer console on sparc is now grey on black.
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Recent commentsLicences
FYI: the actual licences are all OSD/DFSG
compliant (but not OSI approved due to their
political activity regarding "licence proli-
feration"), except the GNU FDL. Strictly spo-
ken the GNU FDL licenced material is not part
of MirOS, but some (binutils and gcc docs) are
contained within the snapshots (although this
may change in the future).
Our primary licence is the MirBSD Licence,
to be seen at http://mirbsd.de/MirOS-Licence
or in /usr/share/misc/licence-template (and
an overview over licencing is given at
http://www.66h.42h.de/man7/BSD-Licence.htm ).
Re: OpenBSD is not 4.4BSD derived
> OpenBSD was split from NetBSD after some
> people couldn't get along, and not
> derived from 4.4BSD. NetBSD is directly
> derived from 4.4BSD.
>
> - Hubert
I've fixed this in the project description.
OpenBSD is not 4.4BSD derived
OpenBSD was split from NetBSD after some people couldn't get along, and not derived from 4.4BSD. NetBSD is directly derived from 4.4BSD.
- Hubert
Hello..
..Mr Glaser