Features
Goals of MirOS BSD are to create a more "modular" base BSD system, similar to Debian. While MirOS Linux (linux kernel + BSD userland) was discussed by the developers sometime in 2004, it has not materialised as yet. Another goal is to provide a faster integration cycle for new features and software than OpenBSD.
- In common with the three major BSD distributions, MirOS BSD supports architectures other than x86.
- Development snapshots are live and installation CD for x86 and SPARC architectures on one media, via the DuaLive technology.
- Latest snapshots have been extended to further boot a grml (a GNU/Linux based rescue system, x86 only) via the Triforce technology
- mksh (MirBSD Korn shell): an actively developed flavour of Korn shell and heir of pdksh
- The base system and some MirPorts store "dotfiles" data in ~/.etc. directory in user's home to avoid cluttering the root of the home directory
- Application packages from the NetBSD-derived pkgsrc repositories were configured for use in MirBSD starting in 2011.
The most important differences to OpenBSD are:
- Completely rewritten, GRUB multi boot compatible, boot loader and boot manager without an 8 GiB limit and with Soekris support
- Slim base system (without NIS, Kerberos, BIND, i18n, BSD games, etc.), Bind and the BSDgames being available as a port
- Binary security updates for stable releases
- ISDN support
- IPv6 support in the web server software
- wtf, a database of acronyms
- Some of the GNUtools (like gzip and *roff) were replaced by original UNIX code released by Caldera International (SCO) under a BSD licence
- 64-bit time handling routines (time_t)
- Correct handling of leap seconds
- Full GCC 3.4 support: C, C++, Pascal, Objective-C
- Current versions of the GNU developer toolchain (rcs, binutils, gdb, texinfo, lynx etc.)
- GNU CVS 1.12 with custom extensions
- Improved random number generator
- Uses sv4cpio with/without CRC instead of tar archives as its package format; support for new formats in cpio
- Improved support for UTF-8 and the Unicode BMP, including wide character support for libncurses ("libncursesw") and friends
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