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The NetBSD Project has announced the release of version 7 of the operating system, which is known for its portability.
Acceleration, with a direct rendering manager (DRM) and kernel mode-setting (KMS), is now available on recent Intel and Radeon graphics chips.
The new version ships with a daemon, blacklistd, which can block unwanted network connections.
The installer now supports GPT-partitioned disks.
ARM multiprocessing is now possible, and several ARM-based single board computers are now supported.
NetBSD now has an experimental port to certain Psion PDAs.
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(Score: 2) by jummama on Monday October 12 2015, @02:15PM
Much of the time, firmware is pushed into a devices address space as part of initialization, rather than it existing on ROM/EEPROM on the device itself. As a result, you have to either have a proprietary binary blob to initialize the device, or you have to develop a functional alternative. Lots of WiFi chips are like this, most modern GPUs are like this, and even some ethernet controllers are like this. Without this firmware, drivers won't work.