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Bitrig was an
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-based operating system targeted exclusively at the amd64 and armv7 platforms. It is no longer being developed, and some of the work that it had done was merged back into OpenBSD."Bitrig: The Short-Lived OpenBSD Fork"
Michael Larabel, Phoronix, 30 July 2017.
Some of its achievements included porting
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/puffs support, libc++ to the platform to replace libstdc++,
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support for AMD64 and NDB kernel support. Bitrig focused on using modern tools such as Git and
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/ Clang along with only focusing on modern platforms. It aimed to have a "commercially friendly code base","Faq - Bitrig"
Github, 7 December 2014.
with
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being the only GNU tool in the base system."Bitrig 1.0 Key Features"
Bitrig, 2014.
GPT partitioning was supported by Bitrig, and future plans included support for
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and EFI. /www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg1MzY "OpenBSD-Forked Bitrig Finally Sees Its Initial Release" Phoronix Media, 4 December 2014.


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{{Berkeley Software Distribution OpenBSD Software using the ISC license