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| MirOS BSD | |
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 Screenshot of MirOS #10-current/i386 | |
| Developer | Thorsten Glaser, Benny Siegert, Ádám Hóka, others |
| OS family | Unix,BSD |
| Working state | Current[1] |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | OpenBSD-current-mirabilos #0[2] (October 11, 2002; 23 years ago (2002-10-11)) |
| Latest release | MirOS #10semel (March 16, 2008; 17 years ago (2008-03-16)) [±] |
| Latest preview | MirBSD-current (10uB4-20160117) (January 17, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-01-17)) [±] |
| Update method | Binary security updates for stable releases |
| Package manager | MirPorts,pkgsrc |
| Supported platforms | i386,SPARC |
| Kernel type | Monolithic |
| Default user interface | mksh, IceWM,evilwm |
| License | MostlyBSD,GPL,MirOS Licence |
| Official website | www |
MirOS BSD (originally calledMirBSD) is afree and open sourceoperating system which started as a fork ofOpenBSD 3.1 in August 2002.[3] It was intended to maintain the security of OpenBSD with better support for European localisation. Since then it has also incorporated code from other free BSD descendants, includingNetBSD, MicroBSD (owned by DamnSmallBSD[4]) andFreeBSD. Code from MirOS BSD was also incorporated into ekkoBSD, and when ekkoBSD ceased to exist, artwork, code and developers ended up working on MirOS BSD for a while.
Unlike thethree major BSD distributions, MirOS BSD supports only thex86 and SPARC architectures.
MirOS BSD originated asOpenBSD-current-mirabilos, an OpenBSDpatchkit, but became a separate project after differences in opinion between the OpenBSD project leaderTheo de Raadt and Thorsten Glaser.[3][5] Despite the forking, MirOS BSD was synchronised with the ongoing development of OpenBSD, thus inheriting most of its good security history, as well as NetBSD and other BSD flavours.[6]
One of the project's goals was to be able to port the MirOS userland to run on theLinux kernel, hence the deprecation of the MirBSD name in favour of MirOS. WhileMirOS Linux (linux kernel + BSD userland) was discussed by the developers sometime in 2004,[7] it has not materialised.
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