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NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent for use in both production and research environments, and the source code is freely available under a business-friendly license. NetBSD is developed and supported by a large and vivid international community. Many applications are readily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection. » Learn more
NetBSD 5.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 5.0 branch, was released on November 19, 2010. It includes security and bug fixes, as well as improved hardware support and new features. Some highlights include RAIDframe parity maps, which greatly improve parity rewrite times after unclean shutdown, X.Org updates, support for many more network devices, Xen PCI pass-through, and PAE dom0 support. » Full 5.1 Release Notes
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