MirOS BSD is a secure operating system, originally based on OpenBSD, for i386 and sparc machines.
The minimum system requirements are a Pentium or SPARC v8 CPU with "enough RAM": 32 MiB for SPARC, 64 MiB for text mode on i386, or 96 MiB for X11. The standard installation needs at least 250 MiB on the hard disk; for X11 and ports, 1 GiB or more is recommended. Instructions for installing MirOS are contained in the install.i386(7) or install.sparc(7) manpages. Why not just use OpenBSD? MirOS BSD often anticipates bigger changes in OpenBSD and includes them before OpenBSD itself. For example, ELF on i386 and support for gcc3 were available in MirOS first. Controversial decisions are often made differently from OpenBSD; for instance, there won't be any support for SMP in MirOS. The most important differences to OpenBSD are: - Completely rewritten bootloader 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 (SCO) under a BSD licence
- Based on OpenBSD (-current and older releases)
- 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
- Uses "MirBSD" as its uname
- Binary compatibility with OpenBSD and MirOS #7 via emulation
- 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
- Out-of-the-box support for the BSDstats Project
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