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 3.0 release and for snapshots of NetBSD-current.

Frank van der Linden is the maintainer of NetBSD/i386.

NetBSD/i386 News

2005-12-23:   NetBSD 3.0 released

NetBSD 3.0 has been released with support for 57 architectures. More information is available in the 3.0 release announcement.

2005-11-02:   NetBSD 2.1 released

NetBSD 2.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.1 release announcement.

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.

Archive of NetBSD/i386 news items