17 Facts About NetBSD

NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution.

NetBSD project focuses on code clarity, careful design, and portability across many computer architectures.

The NetBSD project began as a result of frustration within the 386BSD developer community with the pace and direction of the operating system's development.

The name "NetBSD" was chosen based on the importance and growth of networks such as the Internet at that time, and the distributed, collaborative nature of its development.

NetBSD later founded a new project, OpenBSD, from a forked version of NetBSD 1.

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Currently, unlike other kernels such as µClinux, the NetBSD kernel requires the presence of an MMU in any given target architecture.

Several embedded systems using NetBSD have required no additional software development other than toolchain and target rehost.

NetBSD includes many enterprise features like iSCSI, a journaling filesystem, logical volume management and the ZFS filesystem.

NetBSD provides system call-level binary compatibility on the appropriate processor architectures with its previous releases, but with several other UNIX-derived and UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux, and other 4.

NetBSD was used in NASA's SAMS-II Project of measuring the microgravity environment on the International Space Station, and for investigations of TCP for use in satellite networks.

Thus, the development of products based on NetBSD is possible without having to make modifications to the source code public.

In contrast, the GPL, which does not apply to NetBSD, stipulates that changes to source code of a product must be released to the product recipient when products derived from those changes are released.

On 20 June 2008, the NetBSD Foundation announced a transition to the two clause BSD license, citing concerns with UCB support of clause 3 and industry applicability of clause 4.

NetBSD includes the GNU development tools and other packages, which are covered by the GPL and other open source licenses.

NetBSD "flag" logo, designed by Grant Bissett, was introduced in 2004 and is an abstraction of their older logo, designed by Shawn Mueller in 1994.

NetBSD Foundation is the legal entity that owns the intellectual property and trademarks associated with NetBSD, and on 22 January 2004, became a 503 tax-exempt non-profit organization.

The NetBSD Foundation has a Board of Directors, elected by the voting of members for two years.