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The NetBSD Project has announced the release of version 7 of the operating system, which is known for its portability.
Acceleration, with a direct rendering manager (DRM) and kernel mode-setting (KMS), is now available on recent Intel and Radeon graphics chips.
The new version ships with a daemon, blacklistd, which can block unwanted network connections.
The installer now supports GPT-partitioned disks.
ARM multiprocessing is now possible, and several ARM-based single board computers are now supported.
NetBSD now has an experimental port to certain Psion PDAs.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by cnst on Monday October 12 2015, @03:52AM
It's important to be able to grasp what the code is doing, and make sensible changes easily.
OpenBSD is one of the easiest ones, I think, because it doesn't have almost any untested or dead code (NetBSD probably has the most), and minimal use of preprocessor marcos, making it much easier to understand the code compared to FreeBSD, which has so many macros and awk-based source files that it gets quite crazy.
That's not to say that OpenBSD doesn't have bugs -- it has lots of bugs, just as any other software out there, but the difference is that they're quite easy to grasp and fix.