Editing MirOS BSD (section)

== Features ==
* Development snapshots are [[Live CD|live]] and [[El Torito (CD-ROM standard)|installation]] CD for x86 and [[SPARC]] architectures on one media, via the DuaLive technology.
* Latest snapshots have been extended to further boot a [[grml]] (a Linux-based rescue system, [[x86]] only) via the Triforce technology
* ''mksh'' (MirBSD Korn shell): an actively developed flavour of KornShell and heir of [[pdksh]]
* The base system and some [[MirOS BSD#MirPorts.5B11.5D|MirPorts]] store "[[dotfile]]s" data in ~/.etc. directory in user's home to avoid cluttering the root of the home directory
* Application packages from the [[NetBSD]]-derived [[pkgsrc]] repositories were configured for use in MirBSD starting in 2011.<ref name="FOSDEM2012">Siegert, Benny.[https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/849/111_pkgsrc-on-MirBSD.pdf] "pkgsrc on MirBSD", FOSDEM 2012 Conference, 5 February 2012. Retrieved on 20 May 2012.</ref>
The most important differences to OpenBSD were:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mirbsd.org/about.htm#why|title=MirBSD: About MirOS|website=www.mirbsd.org|accessdate=30 March 2023}}</ref>
* Completely rewritten, [[GNU GRUB|GRUB]] [[multi boot]] compatible, [[Booting#Second-stage boot loaders|boot loader]] and boot manager without an 8 [[GiB]] limit and with Soekris support
* Slim base system (without NIS, Kerberos, [[BIND]], i18n, BSD games, etc.), Bind and the BSDgames being available as a [[MirOS BSD#MirPorts.5B11.5D|port]]
* Binary security updates for stable releases
* ISDN support
* IPv6 support in the web server software
* wtf, a database of acronyms
* Some of the GNUtools (like gzip and *roff) were replaced by original UNIX code released by [[Caldera International]] (SCO) under a BSD licence
* 64-bit time handling routines (time_t)
* Correct handling of leap seconds
* Full GCC 3.4 support: C, C++, Pascal, Objective-C
* Current versions of the GNU developer toolchain (rcs, binutils, gdb, texinfo, lynx etc.)
* GNU CVS 1.12 with custom extensions
* Improved random number generator
* Uses sv4cpio with/without CRC instead of tar archives as its [[package format]]; support for new formats in cpio
* Improved support for [[UTF-8]] and the [[Mapping of Unicode character planes|Unicode BMP]], including wide character support for [[ncurses|libncurses]] ("libncursesw") and friends
** In fact, MirBSD only supports the BMP, so the "UTF-8" support is limited to the part common between UTF-8 and [[CESU-8]].<ref>{{cite web |title=RTFM optu8to16(3), optu8to16vis(3) |url=https://www.mirbsd.org/htman/i386/man3/optu8to16.htm |website=www.mirbsd.org}}</ref>