NetBSD
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| Also Known As: | NetBSD |
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| Drawn By: | Concept by Neko Ed; drawn by various OSC artists |
| OS Personified: | NetBSD |
| OS Developer: | The NetBSD Foundation |
| First Released: | April, 1993 |
| Latest Stable Release: | 4.0 / December 19, 2007 |
NetBSD was the second open source BSD descendent after 386BSD, and continues to be developed. It is noted portability and quality of design, and is often used in embedded systems.
NetBSD-tan is seen as a teenage girl, around 18 years old but physically 15 or so. She wears red plastic glasses, and has bi-colored eyes; the left amber, the right green, as a reference to serial terminals, which had CRT screens of aforementioned colors. Her hair is black with white tips, and she wears orange ribbons, a nod to the NetBSD Flag. She also has devil horns and a tail.
She dresses in a Japanese schoolgirl-style uniform; With a white top and orange skirt, knee socks and orange shoes. She also wears a collar piece with the Bell Systems logo at the tie point, a reference to BSD's Bell Labs Unix heritage. She carries a handbag in the shape of a chrome toaster; a clear nod to the famous installation of NetBSD on a toaster.
Her attitude is quite timid and shy, with a schoolgirlish charm. She must have a quite adventurous side, however; NetBSD is one of the most portable systems made. She is presumably close with her BSD sisters, including FreeBSD-tan, her older sibling.
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