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    NetBSD

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    A free Unix-like Open Source operating system that is the result of a collaborative effort between a large group of people. NetBSD contains a variety of free software, including 4.4BSD Lite from Berkeley. Goals of the NetBSD developers include making the operating system extremely portable for a large number of hardware platforms. The first NetBSD release was version 0.8 in April 1993.

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