NetBSD 10.0 Released

If you ever find yourself interested in living in a NetBSD system, check out the SDF: sdf.org<p>the SuperDimensionalFortress has been around since the 80s and is now one of the largest installations of NetBSD in the US&#x2F;world. Membership gets you such perks as: email address, a private (invite-only) Mastodon instance, a hosted Matrix instance, and more.<p>While you aren&#x27;t an administrator on the SDF instance, you can definitely get a sense of what it&#x27;s like. Different membership tiers get you access to different tools: Free users don&#x27;t get IRC outbound, MetaARPA members are granted access to the big disk store and hosted websites and even development tools.

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 10.0, the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system.<p>It represents cumulative improvements to the operating system since NetBSD 9.x was originally branched in 2019.

Hooray! I&#x27;ve been running successive release candidates in a VM for a couple of weeks now, just upgraded to 10.0-RC6 this week. Guess I&#x27;ll do another upgrade soon.

The Amiga port got significant improvements, including many not listed in the release notes.<p>Xorg works much better now, first boot is significantly faster, and tools used for writing the installer image into disk can safely work with partitions extending above 4GB or over 4GB size.

I still use netbsd as my main desktop, since more than 15 years and counting.<p>Long live NetBSD.<p>My system uptime is counted in years.

I&#x27;ve never used NetBSD, but this announcement is rekindling my desire to install it on my old PowerBook G4.

Yea babyyyy I&#x27;ve been waiting for this release. I&#x27;ve been eager to fire it up on my Thinkpad.

Awesome news!<p>I&#x27;ve been running a few versions of the RCs for NetBSD 10 on a Pine RockPro64. A few reasons NetBSD 10 is a good choice for this Aarch64 device:<p>- Handles ARM&#x27;s big.LITTLE well. You can use &#x2F;usr&#x2F;sbin&#x2F;schedctl -A 4,5 to pin a process to the fast cores.<p>- Generally rock solid -- I&#x27;ve had uptimes in months and generally only rebooted when I upgraded. Like today!<p>- Can boot from an eMMC instead of an SD card.<p>- Supports the PCIe card. I have an SSD adapter. You can even use ZFS.<p>- HDMI support.

I&#x27;ve been interested to try out (Net|Open|Free)BSD for a while. I mostly code and compile C code. What should one expect when going from Linux to either of these BSD systems?

Good to know, will install the latest release. I mainly use lubuntu because of better browser support and driver support (I&#x27;m cheap and buy cheap laptops which have unsupported hardware). This could be overcome if I got off my ass and started to code in ANSI C89. Still need to finish my OpenStep ICHX IDE Driver. Congrats to the team :)

&gt; Apple M1 SoC support, e.g. the M1 Mac Mini.<p>AsahiBSD soon?

Congrats on the eighteens major release.

congratulations, the RCs were quite stable so it should work well for all!

I hope the NetBSD devs included the latest version 5.6.1 of &quot;xz&quot; as it has some new interesting features.

I am really quite heavily involved in the tech sector, across a lot of domains. I don’t know a soul who runs a BSD variant. How can I expose myself to this arena beyond making a BSD box… which seems like a waste of time at the moment.