NetBSD是一份免费的、安全的及高度可移植的开源UNIX操作系统，它适合于很多种平台，从64-bit的AlphaServers及桌面系统到手持及嵌入式系统。它在设计上非常整洁，并拥有先进的特性，这使得它在业界和学术界都有口皆碑。用户可通过完整的源代码来获得支持。很多应用程序都可容易地从 NetBSD Packages Collection获得。
The NetBSD project has announced the release of NetBSD 5.0: "TheNetBSD project is pleased to announce that NetBSD 5.0, the thirteenthrelease of the NetBSD operating system, is now available. NetBSD 5.0features greatly improved performance and scalability on modernmultiprocessor (SMP) and multi-core systems. In addition to scalabilityand performance improvements, a significant number of major featureshave been added. Some highlights are: a preview of metadata journalingfor FFS file systems (known as WAPBL), the jemalloc memory allocator,X.Org instead of XFree86 on a number of ports, the Power ManagementFramework, ACPI suspend/resume support on many laptops, write supportfor UDF file systems, the Automated Testing Framework, the RunnableUserspace Meta Program framework, Xen 3.3 support for both i386 andamd64...." See the release announcement and release notesfor a full list of changes and new features. Installation CD images for42 processor architectures are available from NetBSD's main FTP server and its mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd-5.0.iso (229MB, MD5, torrent), amd64cd-5.0.iso (242MB, MD5, torrent).
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