---> !!! Does not work within your existing OS (Windows, Linux, etc), you will need to boot the media when your computer starts (read our Boot Tips below or surf the Internet for help)! TYPE C Adapter. Type C Male to USB Female Converter Adapter for modern computer C ports! (Pic 4) ---> !!! Buyer is paying for the media storage device and the labour for pre-loading the requested content on stated media storage device. This software listed is freely available download if the buyer wishes! !!! Not really Friendly to Beginners! !!! An active Internet connection is/probably will be required during installation! !!! The "handbook" or installation guide you will find on The internet! or ---> www.netbsd.org/docs/ !!! You will get the Latest Release or the Last Stable Release! Bootable: YES Live: NO Installation: YES Installation type: Text NetBSD is an entirely free and open-source UNIX-like operating system developed by an international community. It isn't a "distribution" or variant, but has evolved over several decades to be a complete and unique operating system in the BSD family NetBSD was originally released in 1993. Over time, its code has found its way into many surprising environments, on the basis of a long history of quality, cleanliness, and stability. The NetBSD code was originally derived from 4.4BSD Lite2 from the University of California, Berkeley NetBSD users enjoy a simple, well-documented, and fully integrated UNIX-like system that feels minimal, and in many ways traditional, while including many modern and interesting features, and support for recent hardware As a community, the people who make NetBSD have a wide area of interests, which has resulted in a system with some diverse features: Security and memory hardening features - including PaX MPROTECT (W^X) enforced globally by default with an option to exclude binaries, among others. File integrity protection is provided by veriexec, and the traditional BSD securelevels further restrict operations that can be performed by even the superuser. NetBSD includes its own native firewall, NPF, and has been used successfully on security-critical networking devices. NetBSD's kernel and userspace have undergone extensive checks by code sanitizers and automated testing Powerful package management - NetBSD's pkgsrc has its own release schedule of quarterly stable branches and a "rolling release" branch, which can be combined in any way with the NetBSD base system. pkgin is a user-friendly binary package manager for pkgsrc, but on its own pkgsrc itself allows power users a great deal of flexibility. pkgsrc has been widely adopted in the high-performance scientific computing community, including at NASA, and supports other platforms, but NetBSD is prioritized Modern storage capabilities - including the ZFS file system, RAIDframe software RAID system, and cgd disk encryption. There is support for the Logical Volume Manager, as well as the traditional BSD filesystem (with logging extension) and disklabel system ARM hardware support for a wide range of open, low-cost, and high-end devices, including powerful SBBA/SBBR servers, open hardware laptops, and pocket-sized development boards. Entirely in the mainline kernel, supported by a single image, and maintained by NetBSD developers with long-term support in mind Virtualization support - including the well-established enterprise solution in Xen, and the native NetBSD kernel module and library making up the NVMM hypervisor, which provides hardware acceleration for QEMU in a clean and secure way Support for modern x86 hardware including NVMe, UEFI, accelerated graphics, and a range of laptops Continuing stable support for a wide range of "legacy" hardware and ABIs. There's long-term backwards compatibility to even the earliest NetBSD releases without compromising on feature like 64-bit time. We intend to keep these systems running long after Year 2038 Why we?: Each individual Media will be checked prior to despatch! Every single image will be downloaded from Developer`s Website. It will be verified for all checksums to make sure you will not get any dangerous images from untrusted sources! Contact US: We can be contacted at any time through eBay messages if you have any questions, comments or product requests. We will respond to you within 24 hours and do our best to help you out! We encourage our customers to contact us with any questions or concerns! We'd like to be sure you are completely satisfied with your purchase! Boot Tips: ---> To access your BIOS, you’ll need to press a key during the boot-up process. This key is often displayed during the boot process with a message “Press F2 to access BIOS”, “Press <DEL> to enter setup”, or something similar. Common keys you may need to press include Delete, F1, F2, and Escape. Some PCs with UEFI firmware also require you to press one of these keys during the boot-up process to access the UEFI firmware settings screen. To find the exact key you need to press, consult your PC’s manual. If you built your own PC, consult your motherboard’s manual. Find boot options and change the boot order (1 must be: USB, DVD, etc). Don’t forget to save changes Alternatively enter to the Boot Menu. When a computer is starting up, the user can access the Boot Menu by pressing one of several keyboard keys. Common keys for accessing the Boot Menu are Esc, F2, F9, F10 or F12 (or something similar), depending on the manufacturer of the computer or motherboard. The specific key to press is usually specified on the computer's startup screen. The Boot Menu allows a user to select what device to load an operating system or application from as the computer is booting ---> Disabling Secure Boot (UEFI): Find the Secure Boot setting in BiOS, and if possible, set it to Disabled. This option is usually in either the Security tab, the Boot tab, or the Authentication tab. Save changes and exit. The PC reboots A 32-bit CPU: ---> Computers with 32-bit processors are the standard; they are the original processors installed in the first computers and remained so up until the 1990s. So, what does it mean that a computer processor is 32-bit? Though it sounds rather technical, it simply means that the computer’s software and operating system can only work with units of data that are 32 bits wide. Computers with a 32-bit processor can’t be imputed with the larger bit version operating system (Windows 95, 98, and XP are all 32-bit operating systems) Compatibility Tips: ---> What is compatible with a 32-bit CPU? A 32-bit processor cannot run an operating system designed for 64-bit CPUs. Nor does it support 64-bit applications. 32-bit CPUs can only run a 32-bit OS and applications designed for 32-bit operating systems ---> What is compatible with a 64-bit CPU? 64-bit systems are generally backward-compatible and support both 32-bit operating systems and 32-bit applications Memory Limits Tips: ---> 32-bit systems are limited to 3.2 Gigabytes (GB) of RAM 32 bit Windows with address limitation do not attain to a full 4GB. It's hardware dependent, typically 3.25GB These programs are licensed under the terms of the GNU License, the GNU lesser Public License or the Mozilla Public License or BSD License or are in the Public Domain or any other Free Licenses! This item does not infringe any copyrights, trademarks or any other rights including eBay’s listing policies or spam policies!