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The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system NetBSD 10.0!
See the release announcement for details.
The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot of development went into this new release.
This also caused the release announcement to be one of the longest we ever did.
If you want to try NetBSD 10.0 please check the installation notes for your architecture and download the preferred install image from the CDN or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-10 builds from the bootable ARM images page.
If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the system during use, please contact us on one of the mailing lists or file a problem report.
Are any of our community NetBSD users? What are the brickbats or bouquets for the OS?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday April 02 2024, @05:50PM
Sure.
The smallest handheld I had NetBSD on was HP Jornada. Good old wardriving times...
++ NetBSD is the thinnest and fastest network kernel out there. For building headless or pocket network appliances, no rival in that.
-- Autoloaded Nouveau driver panics kernel often, if not immediately. That one is overall shit on all other kernels too so no big deal. Absolutely not acceptable on a pure platform which otherwise exhibits uptime in years.
If in true need of graphics on a BSD/NVIDIA contraption, use FreeBSD and NVIDIA's official FreeBSD driver instead. Yes, dear ATI/AMD, NVIDIA supports FreeBSD directly, for ages.
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