About NetBSD

Table of Contents

1. What is NetBSD?

1.1. The story of NetBSD

1.2. NetBSD features

1.3. Supported platforms

1.4. NetBSD's target users

1.5. Applications for NetBSD

1.6. The philosophy of NetBSD

1.7. How to get NetBSD

2. New features in NetBSD 2.0

2.1. What's new in NetBSD 2.0?

2.1.1. Native threads

2.1.2. Kernel events notification framework - kqueue

2.1.3. systrace

2.1.4. UFSv2

2.1.5. Java support

2.1.6. Verified Exec

2.1.7. Cryptographic disk driver

2.1.8. Non-executable stack and heap

2.1.9. New toolchain

2.1.10. Scalability improvements

2.2. New ports and enhancements to existing ports

2.2.1. amd64 - AMD Opteron

2.2.2. evbsh5 - Hitachi Super-H 5 based evaluation boards

2.2.3. i386 - PC hardware from i386 to Pentium IV

2.2.4. macppc - PowerPC based Macs

2.2.5. sparc - Sun hardware and clones

2.3. pkgsrc - The NetBSD Packages Collection