NetBSD/i386

About NetBSD/i386

NetBSD/i386 is the port of NetBSD to the IBM PCs and PC clones with i386-family processors. It runs on ISA (AT-bus), EISA, PCI, VL-bus and MCA systems, with or without math coprocessors.

NetBSD/i386 was the original port of NetBSD, and was initially released as NetBSD 0.8 in 1993.

NetBSD/i386 News

2007-11-15:   80386 support removed

Support for the 80386 processor has been removed as this processor doesn't have the necessary instructions for efficient operation of a modern Operating System. Also, there are going to be very few systems of this age that still function and the ones that do would have a very hard time with a modern version of NetBSD.

2007-01-07:   Xbox support integrated into -current

Microsoft Xbox support has been integrated into -current by Andrew Gillham and Jared D. McNeill. A bootable ISO image, sample root filesystem, and instructions are available on the NetBSD ftp server here.

2006-04-09:   binary packages for i386 available

Manuel Bouyer announced the availability of new binary packages for NetBSD/i386 2.1 and 3.0 on ftp.NetBSD.org. The packages were built from the latest branch pkgsrc-2006Q1.

2003-10-23:   pmap(9) improvement

Niels Provos has changed i386 pmap(9) in -current to use a splay tree instead of linked lists, thereby made fork(2) scale much better as the number of processes increases.

Archive of NetBSD/i386 news items