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
Read more about this topic: MirOS BSD
Famous quotes containing the word features:
““It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
And its eyes shut with overeagerness
To see what people found so interesting
In one another, and had gone to sleep
Of its own stupid lack of understanding,
Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff
Short off, and died against the windowpane.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“However much we may differ in the choice of the measures which should guide the administration of the government, there can be but little doubt in the minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system that one of its most important securities consists in the separation of the legislative and executive powers at the same time that each is acknowledged to be supreme, in the will of the people constitutionally expressed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)