14 DAY TRIAL // NetBSD, a free, fast, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like open source OS available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices, is now at version 6.0.
NetBSD 6.0 is dedicated to the memory of Allen Briggs, a NetBSD developer from the very beginning of the project, and was the main driving force behind the initial import of some of the hardware ports.
Highlights of NetBSD 6.0:
• SMP support for Xen domU kernels, initial suspend/resume support for Xen domU, PCI pass-through support for Xen3, have been added, not to mention the addition of the balloon driver; • MIPS port adding support for SMP and 64-bit (O32, N32, N64 ABIs are supported) processors, DSP v2 ASE extension, various NetLogic/RMI processor models, Loongson family processors, and new SoC boards, has been completely reworked; • SMP on PowerPC port and added support for Book E Freescale MPC85xx (e500 core) processors; • ARM has gained support for Cortex-A8 processors, various new SoCs, and initial support for Raspberry Pi. Full support for Raspberry Pi and major ARM improvements to come in a future NetBSD release; • time_t is now a 64-bit quantity on all NetBSD ports. This means that the NetBSD world no longer ends in 2037.
Other notable features for NetBSD 6.0 include support for thread-local storage (TLS), Logical Volume Manager (LVM) functionality, rewritten disk quota subsystem, new subsystems to handle flash devices and NAND controllers, an experimental CHFS file system designed for flash devices, support for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) protocol, and more.
NetBSD 6.0 also introduces NPF – a new packet filter, designed with multi-core systems in mind, which can do TCP/IP traffic filtering, stateful inspection, and network address translation (NAT).
A complete list of the changes can be found in the official announcement.
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