NetBSD/i386

About NetBSD/i386  NetBSD/i386 is the port of NetBSD to the IBM PCs and PC clones with i386-family processors. It runs on ISA (AT-bus), EISA, PCI, VL-bus and MCA systems, with or without math coprocessors. NetBSD/i386 was the original port of NetBSD, and was initially released as NetBSD 0.8 in 1993. Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/i386 are available for the 2.0 release and for snapshots of NetBSD-current. Frank van der Linden is the maintainer of NetBSD/i386. NetBSD/i386 News  2004-12-09: NetBSD 2.0 released NetBSD 2.0 released with support for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.0 release announcement. 2004-03-01: NetBSD 1.6.2 released NetBSD 1.6.2 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.2 release announcement. 2003-10-23: pmap(9) improvement Niels Provos has changed i386 pmap(9) in -current to use a splay tree instead of linked lists, thereby made fork(2) scale much better as the number of processes increases. 2003-04-21: NetBSD 1.6.1 released NetBSD 1.6.1 released with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.1 release announcement. 2003-03-05: New -current snapshot available A new -current snapshot based on 2003-03-05 sources is now available in the NetBSD/i386 snapshot area of the ftp server. 2002-10-02: New -current snapshot available A new -current snapshot based on 2002-10-02 sources is now available in the NetBSD/i386 snapshot area of the ftp server. 2002-10-01: i386 SMP branch merged with -current Frank van der Linden has merged Bill Sommerfeld's i386mp branch into i386/-current. i386 SMP support should work fine on 1-CPU systems and quite well on a lot of multiprocessor systems. See Frank's message to current-users. 2002-09-14: NetBSD 1.6 released NetBSD 1.6 released with support for 39 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6 release announcement. Archive of NetBSD/i386 news items

NetBSD/i386 Information NetBSD/i386 FAQ NetBSD/i386 on IBM PS/2 NetBSD/i386 Supported Hardware NetBSD/i386 History The NetBSD Diskless HOWTO Mailing Lists The NetBSD/i386 mailing list, covering NetBSD's port to IBM PCs and PC Clones with i386 or better CPUs: [ subscribe | archive ] Current Release NetBSD/i386 2.0 via FTP NetBSD/i386 2.0 Install Notes NetBSD/i386 2.0 pre-built binary packages via the NetBSD package system NetBSD 2.0 release announcement NetBSD/i386 changes to 2.0 Changes from NetBSD 1.6 to NetBSD 2.0 NetBSD FTP Mirror Sites NetBSD on CD-ROM Future Releases NetBSD/i386 changes from 2.0 to 3.0 NetBSD/i386 binary snapshots of NetBSD-current Related Links Mail the NetBSD/i386 port maintainer

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