NetBSD 10: Thirty years, still going strong

It&#x27;s probably best to wait until the event has happened and then people can watch the talk as well.<p>In the meantime, recent and related:<p><i>FOSDEM 2024 Schedule</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38694390">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38694390</a> - Dec 2023 (76 comments)

I would like to know from anyone that runs NetBSD, a simple question: why?<p>Any and all answers appreciated, but for a very long time, I&#x27;ve boxed NetBSD into a corner of &quot;extreme portability&quot; without much else to hold it as practical. FreeBSD is great for all around general purpose desktops and servers, OpenBSD is great for the network edge, and NetBSD... I guess you can run on your Dreamcast.

If - for some reason - FreeBSD would not be available - I would be running NetBSD.<p>The things I miss in NetBSD (having them on FreeBSD) are:<p>- ZFS Boot Environments with beadm(8) command.<p>- Bhyve (I hope NVMM will get to similar level)<p>- Jails - not sure NetBSD will bring any containers into the &#x27;game&#x27; ...<p>- Probably some other things that I missed because of not not running NetBSD daily.<p>I heard WINE is not a 1st class NetBSD citizen - so that helps a lot here.<p>IMHO (with my limited NetBSD experience) seems to look bright ... and I wish NetBSD and NetBSD community all the best.

Nice! What a great distribution!<p>I&#x27;m often surprised that the corps didn&#x27;t pick up the BSDs instead of linux. Given the massively more secret friendly licensing. The exception of course being apple, which forked BSD from NextSTEP.

Should this be [future video]?