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: 3, Interesting) by recourse on Wednesday April 03 2024, @02:31AM (2 children)
NetBSD is my first nix love. I used it to set up my first publically accessible web server. It was a joy to work with and if I could I would switch to it for work. Its configuration system was simple and easy to use for a teen in the late 90s and I just really loved using it. NetBSD and the other BSDs will always have a place in my technical heart.
(Score: 2) by Cyrix6x86 on Wednesday April 03 2024, @06:45PM (1 child)
NetBSD is the only BSD that I have never used.
I think I followed the traditional FreeBSD (1998) -> DragonFly BSD (2004?) -> OpenBSD desktop (2010) journey.
I've used pkgsrc on OpenSolaris I believe. But never actually used NetBSD.
Are there any scenarios where it makes sense to use NetBSD over one of the other BSD systems?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2024, @06:43AM
When hardware or drivers make it difficult to run the others. Installing OpenBSD on ARM devices is often a hassle, for example, while NetBSD can usually be installed quite simply on nearly anything. If you want to use features like bluetooth, it can make sense on laptops over OpenBSD. It also has ZFS support and a linux compatibility layer like FreeBSD, but doesn't have jails. It does have it's own hypervisor nvmm, but I haven't used enough to know how it compares to bhyve or OpenBSD's vmm. In many ways it feels like the best of both Free- and Open- BSD, but I find myself missing rcctl and the nicely curated OpenBSD base system, so I only use it where it's the path of least of resistance.