NetBSD turns 30 and releases version 10
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Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
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    3 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    FOSDEM 2024 NetBSD 10 marks a new level of maturity for this venerable open source Unix system, which somehow manages to be both modern and retro at the same time.

    This isn’t a powerhouse anymore, but we hoped that its older hardware would be well supported, and previously it’s proved surprisingly responsive with Haiku beta 4 and Alpine Linux 3.18.

    This time around, we knew that after the install, we had to remain in the sysinst program a little longer and complete some more steps, which meant that by our first reboot, we had a working package manager, configured with online repositories, a hostname, and so on.

    By default, even with a modern Linux desktop like Xfce installed, there are no graphical tools for things like network connections, sound settings, or package management.

    It’s a shoo-in for old but still capable hardware that’s no longer supported by its vendor or by modern Linux, such as older RISC computers (PowerMacs or SPARC machines, say).

    OpenBSD is almost extremist, with a ruthless approach to clean code and secure design, even if that means dropping entire areas of functionality such as Bluetooth.

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