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'''MicroBSD''' is a fork of the [[UNIX-like]] [[BSD]] [[operating system]] descendant [[OpenBSD]] 3.0, begun in July 2002.  The project's objective to produce a free and fully secure, complete system, but with a small footprint.  The first phase of its development was aborted, it was later resumed by a new group of developers, which once more resulted in abortion.

== The first MicroBSD project ==

The original development of MicroBSD produced conflicts with the developers of OpenBSD, especially regarding copyright statements and attribution, and how the [[fork (software)|fork]] was handled.  For example, an e-mail message sent to the installer after a successful installation, claimed to come from "[[Theo de Raadt]], founder of the MicroBSD project", although Theo de Raadt is the founder of the OpenBSD project; evidently a simple search and replace was made, leading to such false attributions.  Similarly the documentation claimed that the MicroBSD project members were the developers of [[OpenSSH]], also developed by the OpenBSD project.  These were violations of the [[BSD License]] under which OpenBSD is released.

The old MicroBSD project (hosted at microbsd.com) does not exist anymore, but code from it has been incorporated into the [[MirOS BSD]] project.  The last release of the old MicroBSD project was version 0.6 in October [[2002]].

== The renewed MicroBSD project ==

The new MicroBSD project set its goal as trying to continue what the original MicroBSD project began. A new edition of version 0.6 – with cleaned up source code and corrected copyright statements – was released in October [[2003]]. A beta 0.7 version was being derived from OpenBSD 3.4, but the project stalled and all development ceased that November.

MicroBSD was under development by individuals from [[Bulgaria]] and was intent on a focus toward security, development of a user interface, easy management and configuration, and the addition of Bulgarian-specific [[localization]].

== See also ==
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* [[Comparison of BSD operating systems]]

== External link ==
*[http://www.microbsd.net/ MicroBSD project website]
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