NetBSD 10.1 Released With Support For More Network Hardware, Better Ampere Altra Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetBSD 10.1 Released With Support For More Network Hardware, Better Ampere Altra Support

Building off the release of NetBSD 10.0 that arrived for Easter this year and incorporated a half-decade of work, NetBSD 10.1 is out right before Christmas as the first update to this BSD operating system series...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10.1-Released

[mxan]

Dead OS no one cares about. OpenBSD ftw

[Espionage724]

Dead OS no one cares about. OpenBSD ftw

Ah, now I know it's worth keeping up with! People have said that about Xorg for years

I'm pretty good with FreeBSD for now but have heard of NetBSD a few times and imagine it has its use-cases.

[mxan]

Ah, now I know it's worth keeping up with! People have said that about Xorg for years

I'm pretty good with FreeBSD for now but have heard of NetBSD a few times and imagine it has its use-cases.

NetBSD's only use-case is installing on ancient hardware that no one cares about so you can say "look it can run a modern OS" and that's about it.

[jaypatelani]

NetBSD's only use-case is installing on ancient hardware that no one cares about so you can say "look it can run a modern OS" and that's about it.

Isn't there value in niche projects? Niche usecases sometimes need niche software.

Also some are using it in production https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/...ng-since-2010/

Also NASA uses NetBSD's pkgsrc for thier NAS package requirements

https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/pdf-cat/133/

https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/using-software-packages-in-pkgsrc_493.html

Yeah sure NetBSD is dead!

[kylew77]

While I agree with commenter number 1 that OpenBSD is the superior BSD, I don't think NetBSD is without use. It is basically like a less secure but higher performance OpenBSD with ZFS support. I've never daily driven NetBSD due to no hardware acceleration on any hardware I've owned so I will reserve judgment on it. I hope someday for the drivers in NetBSD to get good enough to give it a fair chance and am excited for each release of it. NetBSD does great things with a very small budget!

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

It's been years since I've screwed around with any of the BSDs. I'm keeping an old workstation to goof around with stuff like this. I had already installed an 8x 2.5" SATA hot swap bay in one of the 5.25" drive slots back when it was running Linux, so seems perfect to slap a few BSDs on cheap SATA drives and play.

[User29]

the most sympathetic BSD.
no bragging like obsd, no jealous sour guys like fbsd.
just exists.

[curfew]

Ah, now I know it's worth keeping up with! People have said that about Xorg for years

I'm pretty good with FreeBSD for now but have heard of NetBSD a few times and imagine it has its use-cases.

I did like the user experience of tweaking the OS more with NetBSD than FreeBSD, but at the time NetBSD didn't even support my USB printer so I had to ditch it. It also lacked support for proper virtualization (whatever that means), I cannot remember anymore. This was long time ago, like ten years or more.

[kpedersen]

NetBSD was also chosen for use in Apple's Time Capsule hardware. NASA also uses it for some satellites.