Taipei, Taiwan, May 8, 2007-- Areca Technology Corporation (Areca), a global leading provider of PCI-X, PCI-Express SATA ll RAID adapter, services and solutions for customers. Today announced that Areca range of drivers have been successfully added to the free OpenBSD operating system. OpenBSD 4.1 fully supports arc(4), it is enabled on i386, amd64, macppc, and sparc64 computers.
OpenBSD is a fully functional, multi-platform UN*X-like Operating System based on Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2) and 4.4BSD-Lite. There are several operating systems in this family, but OpenBSD differentiates itself by putting security and correctness first. The OpenBSD team strives to achieve what is called a 'secure by default' status. This means that an OpenBSD user should feel safe that their newly installed machine will not be compromised. This 'secure by default' goal is achieved by taking a proactive stance on security.
The driver development, supported by OpenBSD, was done by David Gwynne. It extends the group of supported operating systems and allows users of OpenBSD - the OpenBSD operation system that is famous for its high security level - to use OpenBSD as a primary time source.
Areca also supports other open-source projects and operating systems, including FreeBSD, and actively works with the open source community by giving away free sample products to developers in exchange for developing drivers and interfaces for our products.
Support for it is documented on the following pages:
http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html
http://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html
http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=arc&sektion=4&format=html |