NetBSD is such a joy to work with, I’ve stuck with it for nigh 18 years (NetBSD 1.6). I’ve used FreeBSD and Linux fairly extensively (esp Linux at $work, of course), and dabbled with DragonFly and Open BSDs, but the fit/finish of NetBSD keeps me coming back.<p>The linked document is fairly old. There seems to be a <i>lot</i> of churn in the tree lately (last 6(?) months; seems to have slowed last few weeks), especially by ad@ (Andrew Doran). Browse the mailing list[0] to see what’s going on in -current. It’s extensive enough (read: <i>occasionally unstable</i>) that I’ve moved from running -current as my daily-driver (which was possible for an amazingly long time) to tracking 9-release.<p>If anybody is interested in a well put together *nix, esp a BSD, NetBSD[1] deserves attention.<p>[0] <a href="https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/" rel="nofollow">https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://NetBSD.org/" rel="nofollow">https://NetBSD.org/</a>
I cut my teeth on NetBSD and was the OS I learned *NIX on. I deployed many production systems using NetBSD.<p>A great OS that is very under appreciated, very under represented, and very under respected.
I have tried using various BSD OS’s but they always seemed to require a lot more work if you wanted a desktop GUI.<p>Am I correct in thinking that BSD is meant to be used “headless” for security reasons?