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 4.0 release and for snapshots of NetBSD-current.

Andrew Doran is the maintainer of NetBSD/i386.

NetBSD/i386 News

2008-10-13:   NetBSD 4.0.1 released

NetBSD 4.0.1 has been released. More information is available in the 4.0.1 release announcement.

2007-12-19:   NetBSD 4.0 released

NetBSD 4.0 has been released. More information is available in the 4.0 release announcement.

2007-01-07:   Xbox support integrated into -current

Microsoft Xbox support has been integrated into -current by Andrew Gillham and Jared D. McNeill. A bootable ISO image, sample root filesystem, and instructions are available on the NetBSD ftp server here.

2006-11-04:   NetBSD 3.1 released

NetBSD 3.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-3 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 53 architectures. More information is available in the 3.1 release announcement.

2006-04-09:   binary packages for i386 available

Manuel Bouyer announced the availability of new binary packages for NetBSD/i386 2.1 and 3.0 on ftp.NetBSD.org. The packages were built from the latest branch pkgsrc-2006Q1.

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.

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