MirOS BSD - Features

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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