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A first look at Jibbed 5.0.1 (a NetBSD live CD)
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| I've always had a good deal of respect for
| the various flavours of BSD. Each of them
| holds down an interesting niche in the open
| source community and I generally enjoy using
| them when I have the opportunity. So it was
| with a good deal of excitement that I read
| about Jibbed, a live CD based off the latest
| version of NetBSD. I, admittedly, have had
| little experience with the operating system
| whose claim to fame is the ability to run on
| anything, even a toaster, and this seemed
| like a good chance to see what was new in
| NetBSD.
|
| The Jibbed web site displays a clean and
| easy-to-navigate layout. It's very easy on
| the eyes and contains lots of useful
| information on the project. This includes
| some frequently asked questions (and
| answers), a Wiki and ways to contact the
| developer. By the time my download was done
| and checked for errors, I was already feeling
| hopeful about this project. The Jibbed image
| file is medium in size, weighing in at about
| 465 MB. For my safari into Jibbed I used two
| physical machines, a LG laptop with a 1.5 GHz
| processor, 2 GB of RAM and an ATI video card.
| I also used a generic desktop box with a 2.5
| GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM and a NVIDIA video
| card. To round out the experiment, I set up
| Jibbed in a virtual machine too.
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100118#feature
Recent:
Installing NetBSD 5.0: Screenshots
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| The NetBSD Project recently released NetBSD 5.0, the 13th major release of
| its Unix operating system. If you are not familiar with the BSD mentality,
| it's a back-to-basics approach. Those familiar with Unix environments will
| find themselves right at home.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Installing-NetBSD-5-0-Screenshots/0,139023769,339296397,00.htm
Related:
14 Oct 2008 - NetBSD 4.0.1 released (top)
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| The NetBSD release engineering team has announced that the NetBSD 4.0.1
| release is now available. NetBSD 4.0.1 is the first security/critical update
| of the NetBSD 4.0 release branch which includes a selected subset of fixes
| deemed critical in nature for stability or security reasons
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http://www.netbsd.org/changes/#netbsd-4.0.1
NetBSD strikes advertising clause from license
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| Like FreeBSD and OpenBSD, NetBSD is a free variant of Unix based on Unix
| version 4.4BSDLite2. Up to now, the licence called on developers to mention
| the name of the original author when selling software they developed based on
| BSD code.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/109880
Fifteen years of NetBSD
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| The NetBSD Project celebrates its 15th anniversary!
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http://lwn.net/Articles/274299/
Waving the flag: NetBSD developers speak about version 4.0
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| The NetBSD community announced last month the official release of NetBSD 4.0,
| the latest version of the Unix-like open-source operating system. Version 4.0
| includes significant new features like Bluetooth support, version 3 of the
| Xen virtual machine monitor, new device drivers, and improvements to the
| Veriexec file integrity subsystem. NetBSD, which is known for its high
| portability, is capable of running on 54 different system architectures and
| is suitable for use on a wide range of hardware, including desktops, servers,
| mobile devices, and even kitchen toasters.
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/netbsd4-interview.ars
NetBSD 4. with Xen 3 support
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| The NetBSD project has released version 4.0 of the open source BSD UNIX. The
| developers say that support for the Xen 3 virtualization solution has been
| added, as has support for Bluetooth, the UDF file system, WPA encryption, and
| the iSCSI protocol. In addition, a number of new drivers and support for
| additional embedded processor platforms have been added.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/100852/from/rss09
NetBSD Live! 2007 Screenshot Walkthrough
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| Booting is done using an adapted version of the GRUB boot loader.
| The CD contains the following software packages in addition to the
| base operating system files: XFree86, KDE 3.5.4 with multiple
| language sets...
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http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/?q=node/35
NetBSD: An Alternative to Linux
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| When many people think of free operating systems, or Unix like
| operating systems. The first thing that comes to many people minds
| is Linux. It's not the only free operating system, though it gets a
| lot of press. Open Source is about having a choice, not a
| dominating operating systems war.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/203109/netbsd_an_alternative_to_linux.html
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