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| 2008-03-17 |
NEW • BSD Release: MirOS BSD #10 |
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Thorsten Glaser has announced the release of MirOS BSD #10, an OpenBSD-based secure operating system for i386 and SPARC architectures: "The MirOS Project proudly presents release #10 of MirOS BSD." A quick overview of features: "Released simultaneously on both supported architectures; support both for multi-byte and wide-character strings including conversion functions; the MirOS Korn Shell, mksh, now at release R33; pkgsrc from NetBSD can be installed and used in parallel as a complement to MirPorts; bugs in all parts of the system have been fixed; OpenBSD and Linux binaries can be run at native speed using the kernel binary emulation; security upgrades will be released both in source and binary form." Read the complete release announcement for further details. Download the dual-architecture installation CD from here: MIR80316.ISO (656MB, torrent).
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| MirOS is an operating system based on OpenBSD and synchronised with the ongoing development of its parent. The most important differences between OpenBSD and MirOS include a completely rewritten bootloader and boot manager, a slim base system without NIS, Kerberos, BIND and i18n, binary security updates for stable releases, and current versions of the GNU developer toolchain.
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MirOS is an operating system based on OpenBSD, but with a number of notable differences (listed at number one is "no hot-tempered head developer"). A new version has been released: "The MirOS Project is proud to announce the immediate release of MirOS XP, consisting of MirOS BSD #8 and the MirPorts Framework. This release is the first in the MIRBSD_8 branch and still highly experimental in some parts, especially ports, but has been thoroughly tested and deemed stable." For more information and a detailed list of changes please see the release announcement. A bootable ISO image of MirOS #8, inclusive of the sources and ports tree, is available for download via BitTorrent: MIR51223.ISO (image size: 354MB).
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