NetBSD/prep

About NetBSD/prep

NetBSD/prep is the port of NetBSD to early PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) machines.

NetBSD/prep News

2006-02-23:   IBM RS/6000 7024 Support

Support for the IBM RS/6000 7024 model E20 and E30 has been added to the prep port.

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.

2004-06-26:   IBM RS/6000 40P 6015 support

Platform support was extended to the IBM RS/6000 40P 6015.

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.

2003-04-21:   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.

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.

2002-05-30:   IBM RS/6000 43P 7043-140 support

Platform support was extended to the IBM RS/6000 43P 7043-140.

2002-05-05:   New snapshot available

Userland and kernel snapshot, based on 2002/05/02 sources, is now available in the NetBSD/prep snapshot area of the ftp server.

2002-02-26:   Motorola Ultra 603 and Ultra Plus support

Platform support was extended to the Motorola Ultra 603 and Ultra Plus boards, which are the buildling blocks for systems such as the Bull ESTRELLA 200 series.

2001-03-12:   Linux compatibility enabled for PowerPC ports

Emmanuel Dreyfus has integrated Linux binary compatibility for PowerPC ports. This means that NetBSD/prep should now be able to run LinuxPPC binaries such as Netscape Communicator.

Archive of NetBSD/prep news items

Supported System Models

Currently the following models are supported in NetBSD/prep:

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