MirOS BSD

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MirOS BSD
MirBSDLogo.png
MirOS hallowe'en.png
Screenshot of MirOS #10-current/i386
Developer Thorsten Glaser, Benny Siegert, Ádám Hóka, others
OS family Unix, BSD
Working stateCurrent [1]
Source model Open source
Initial releaseOpenBSD-current-mirabilos #0 [2] (October 11, 2002;22 years ago (2002-10-11))
Latest release MirOS #10semel (March 16, 2008;17 years ago (2008-03-16)) [±]
Latest preview MirBSD-current (10uB4-20160117) (January 17, 2016;9 years ago (2016-01-17)) [±]
Update methodBinary security updates for stable releases
Package manager MirPorts, pkgsrc
Platforms i386, SPARC
Kernel type Monolithic
Default
user interface 		mksh, IceWM, evilwm
License Mostly BSD, GPL, MirOS Licence
Official website www.mirbsd.org

MirOS BSD (originally called MirBSD) is a free and open source operating system which started as a fork of OpenBSD 3.1 in August 2002. [3] It was intended to maintain the security of OpenBSD with better support for European localisation. Since then it has also incorporated code from other free BSD descendants, including NetBSD, MicroBSD (owned by DamnSmallBSD [4] ) and FreeBSD. Code from MirOS BSD was also incorporated into ekkoBSD, and when ekkoBSD ceased to exist, artwork, code and developers ended up working on MirOS BSD for a while.

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Unlike the three major BSD distributions, MirOS BSD supports only the x86 and SPARC architectures.

History

MirOS BSD originated as OpenBSD-current-mirabilos, an OpenBSD patchkit, but became a separate project after differences in opinion between the OpenBSD project leader Theo de Raadt and Thorsten Glaser. [3] [5] Despite the forking, MirOS BSD was synchronised with the ongoing development of OpenBSD, thus inheriting most of its good security history, as well as NetBSD and other BSD flavours. [6]

One of the project's goals was to be able to port the MirOS userland to run on the Linux kernel, hence the deprecation of the MirBSD name in favour of MirOS. While MirOS Linux (linux kernel + BSD userland) was discussed by the developers sometime in 2004, [7] it has not materialised.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "MirBSD: Welcome at MirBSD". www.mirbsd.org. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  2. ↑ History of MirOS, eMail to Éric Lévénez
  3. 1 2 Birthing point for MirOS
  4. ↑ https://damnsmallbsd.org/MicroBSD/
  5. ↑ "'Re: Initial patch of NetBSD /usr/games/wtf + /usr/share/misc/acronyms' - MARC". marc.info. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  6. ↑ "MirOS BSD: the peaceful operating system". BSD Magazine. p. 16. Archived from the original on September 16, 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  7. ↑ "MirBSD: MirBSD Weblog". www.mirbsd.org. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
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