Linux user here, not NetBSD. My exposure to NetBSD is infinitesimal. But ...<p>I saw a video on "rump" kernels awhile back. I also heard that Andrew Tanenbaum ported/is porting Minix to NetBSD. NetBSD has an "anykernel" approach which separates the kernel for the drivers. So you can impose your own flavour of kernel on a bunch of pre-written drivers.<p>This struck me as a potentially mind-blowing win for NetBSD. Why isn't every RTOS, embedded system OS, toy OS,experimental OS etc. based on NetBSD? I don't know the reason for this. Maybe it's part NIH, part open secret that nobody's heard about, and a large part to do with getting over the hump of integration.
There are BSD clones for smallish (small memory or even no real memory management unit) systems - RetroBSD and LiteBSD: <a href="http://retrobsd.org/wiki/doku.php" rel="nofollow">http://retrobsd.org/wiki/doku.php</a> , <a href="https://github.com/sergev/LiteBSD/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sergev/LiteBSD/wiki</a> .
Literally got bored of scanning through the hundreds of cookies to find the ones that have "legitimate interest" to individually turn off.<p>Hope the article was good!
OpenBSD and Void user here. NetBSD was good under the 5.x/6.x era on the desktop, then the quality plummeted, a lot of ports segfaulted.<p>Now with 9.2 people is telling me is working really great as in the old days.
I have great memories sat in the labs at college with peculiar hardware just seeing what we could run netbsd on. Aside from education it had no practical utility to us at the time, but it was good fun :)<p>Brilliant project delivering some good free spirited light heartedness to the OS world.
Also if anyone interested in testing out new GPU code check this : <a href="https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/563-56-gpu-drivers-update" rel="nofollow">https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/563-56-gpu-drivers-update</a>
It couldn't run on my "bring your own ISO" VPS provider. which did manage to run OpenBSD and FreeBSD.<p>(Very possible I made some noob mistake)