What is the NetBSD Project?

The NetBSD Project is the collective volunteer effort of a large group of people, to produce a freely available and redistributable UNIX-like operating system, NetBSD. NetBSD is based on a variety of free software, including 4.4BSD Lite from the University of California, Berkeley. It runs on a large number of hardware platforms and is highly portable. It comes with complete source code, and is user-supported.

NetBSD is distributed in two forms: formal releases and NetBSD-current. Formal releases are done periodically and include well-tested binaries, source code, and install tools. NetBSD-current is a nightly distribution of the latest sources, meant for serious hackers who want work with the absolute latest software, and are willing to help debug it.

NetBSD is in use world wide, and is highly interoperable with other systems. It is easy to port software to NetBSD, because NetBSD is almost POSIX compliant and is a relatively standard BSD system. Also, since NetBSD has a large number of users, many of whom subscribe to the NetBSD mailing lists, it's likely that if you're having a problem, someone will have seen it before and will be able to help you.


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