The NetBSD Project, 2008. Unix, BSD & Linux.
NetBSD is a free, open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass and Charles Hannum started it out of frustration with the pace and direction of 386BSD. They wanted an open, multi-platform, production-quality BSD built on portable, clean and correct code. Its source repository was set up on 21 March 1993, and NetBSD 0.8 followed on 19 April 1993.
The name reflects the importance of networks such as the Internet, and the distributed way the system is developed. NetBSD 1.0, in October 1994, was the first multi-platform release and the first free of legally encumbered code from the Net/2 release. De Raadt was removed from the project in 1994 and went on to found OpenBSD from NetBSD 1.0.
Portability is the project’s hallmark, and its motto is “Of course it runs NetBSD”. It supports more than 59 hardware platforms, from VAX minicomputers to game consoles such as the Dreamcast and Wii, all built from a single source tree. Its pkgsrc collection, introduced in 1998, offers more than 29,000 packages and is used by other systems, including MINIX 3.
This exhibit runs NetBSD 4.0.1, whose kernel was built on 7 October 2008. At the login prompt, log in as root, with no password.