NetBSD - Revision history

Jnc: Mor accurate

2025-05-28T20:03:27Z

Mor accurate

Jnc: Better description

2025-05-28T20:01:50Z

Better description

Jnc: Slightly improve intro; avoid redirs

2025-05-25T17:09:21Z

Slightly improve intro; avoid redirs

Jnc: /* See also */ +Installing NetBSD ARC on Qemu

2024-01-13T15:48:17Z

‎See also: +Installing NetBSD ARC on Qemu

Jnc: +cat

2018-06-17T19:11:59Z

+cat

Dank101 at 23:14, 15 September 2017

2017-09-15T23:14:43Z

Neozeed: add in bump for 7.0

2015-10-18T09:29:31Z

add in bump for 7.0

Neozeed: /* Version 6.1.5 */

2015-01-15T03:10:49Z

‎Version 6.1.5

Neozeed: update year box

2015-01-05T00:30:39Z

update year box

Neozeed: /* Version 6.1.5 */

2015-01-05T00:28:37Z

‎Version 6.1.5

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-'''NetBSD''' is a [[portable]] late [[BSD]] [[UNIX|Unix]], and a bit of a blessing for many hobbyists, as it includes support for the [[VAX]], [[Intel 80386|i386]], [[Amiga]], [[Motorola MC68000|68K]] [[Macintosh|Macs]], various [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] systems like the [[Sun-3]] as well as a wide variety of toasters and the [[HP300]]. You might want to check the entire list (below). There's even some discussion of a port to [[PDP-10]]s!
+'''NetBSD''' is a [[portable]] [[BSD]] [[UNIX|Unix]], and a bit of a blessing for many hobbyists, as it includes support for the [[VAX]], [[Intel 80386|i386]], [[Amiga]], [[Motorola MC68000|68K]] [[Macintosh|Macs]], various [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] systems like the [[Sun-3]] as well as a wide variety of toasters and the [[HP300]]. You might want to check the entire list (below). There's even some discussion of a port to [[PDP-10]]s!
 NetBSD started out as a derivative of [[386BSD]], as at the time it was a collection of patches to 386BSD.  People grew dissatisfied with the lack of updates with 386BSD, and how the patchkit kept getting larger and larger & unwieldy leading to the various authors of the patches to start their own fork of 386BSD, called NetBSD as it was created on the 'Internet'. NetBSD focuses on portability and simplicity of the code.

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-'''NetBSD''' is a [[portable]] late [[UNIX|Unix]], and a bit of a blessing for many hobbyists, as it includes support for the [[VAX]], [[Intel 80386|i386]], [[Amiga]], [[Motorola MC68000|68K]] [[Macintosh|Macs]], various [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] systems like the [[Sun-3]] as well as a wide variety of toasters and the [[HP300]]. You might want to check the entire list (below). There's even some discussion of a port to [[PDP-10]]s!
+'''NetBSD''' is a [[portable]] late [[BSD]] [[UNIX|Unix]], and a bit of a blessing for many hobbyists, as it includes support for the [[VAX]], [[Intel 80386|i386]], [[Amiga]], [[Motorola MC68000|68K]] [[Macintosh|Macs]], various [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] systems like the [[Sun-3]] as well as a wide variety of toasters and the [[HP300]]. You might want to check the entire list (below). There's even some discussion of a port to [[PDP-10]]s!
 NetBSD started out as a derivative of [[386BSD]], as at the time it was a collection of patches to 386BSD.  People grew dissatisfied with the lack of updates with 386BSD, and how the patchkit kept getting larger and larger & unwieldy leading to the various authors of the patches to start their own fork of 386BSD, called NetBSD as it was created on the 'Internet'. NetBSD focuses on portability and simplicity of the code.

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-NetBSD is a bit of a blessing for many hobbyists, as it includes support for the [[VAX]], [[Amiga]], 68k [[Mac]]s, various [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] systems like the [[Sun-3]] as well as a wide variety of toasters and the [[HP300]].  You might want to check the entire list at the [http://netbsd.org/Ports/ NetBSD list of ports].  There's even some discussion of a port to [[PDP-10]]s!
+NetBSD started out as a derivative of [[386BSD]], as at the time it was a collection of patches to 386BSD.  People grew dissatisfied with the lack of updates with 386BSD, and how the patchkit kept getting larger and larger & unwieldy leading to the various authors of the patches to start their own fork of 386BSD, called NetBSD as it was created on the 'Internet'. NetBSD focuses on portability and simplicity of the code.
 It's worth noting that a political fight within NetBSD led to the formation of [[OpenBSD]].
 == Version 0.8, 0.9, 0.9a ==
-According to [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/09/14/netbsd_future.html?page=2 Charles M. Hannum], "..the agreement is very clear, and nobody cares about that early code history any more--so this is all water under the bridge.". Historians beg to differ.
+These early versions were heavily based on 386BSD + patchkits and contained Net/2 files subject to USL scrutiny. Due to an agreement with USL these distributions are no longer officially available.
 As we locate the older versions I'll add information about each release here.
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 == Version 1.2 ==
 *[[NetBSD 1.2]]
-This version restored support for the [[VAX]] Platform.  Additionally more platforms were added solidifying NetBSD as a portable OS.
+This version restored support for the VAX Platform. Additionally, more platforms were added solidifying NetBSD as a portable OS.
 == Version 5.0.2 ==
-The exiting change (well to me) was the inclusion of unit tests in the OS so that users of less used ports (VAX) can certify that their OS is performing as it should be...
 [[Installing NetBSD 5.0.2 on the SIMH MicroVAX II]]
 == Version 5.1 ==
 For what its worth I've installed it on SIMH
-[[Installing NetBSD 5.1 on the SIMH MicroVAX II]]
+For what its worth I've installed it on [[SIMH]] - [[Installing NetBSD 5.1 on the SIMH MicroVAX II]]
 == Version 6.0 ==
 Released on October 21 2012.
 == Version 6.1.5 ==
-For what it is worth, this version's Sparc & Sparc64 builds will run under [[Qemu]] 2.2.0's default build with OpenBIOS.
+For what it is worth, this version's [[SPARC]] & SPARC64 builds will run under [[Qemu]] 2.2.0's default build with OpenBIOS.
 But both are not without issues, the Sparc64 has disk interrupt errors when there is a high volume of disk traffic, and the Sparc32 has constant esp0 errors:
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 * [[Running NetBSD on a VAX]]
 * [[Installing NetBSD ARC on Qemu]]
 {{Nav Unix}}
 [[Category: Unix-based OS's]]

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 == Version 7.0 ==
-== other ==
+==See also==
 [[Running NetBSD on a VAX]]
 {{Nav Unix}}
 [[Category: Unix-based OS's]]

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		+	{{Nav Unix}}

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 | name = NetBSD
 | year introduced = 1993
-| current version = NetBSD 7.0 (September 25, 2015)
+| current version = NetBSD 7.1 (March 11, 2017)
 | image = NetBSD imps.jpg
 | caption = Of course it runs NetBSD!

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 Released on October 21 2012.
-== Version 6.1 ==
+== Version 6.1.5 ==
-As of May 18, 2013, this is the current version.
+As of Jan 5, 2015, this is the current version.
 I'll tackle this at a later time.