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  haberman
  I often wonder what the current status is of the BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD). Who uses them, who works on them, what is their motivation for doing so? How do they compare to Linux these days, in terms of size, feature set, security hardening, etc? Is their usage/development happening at a relatively constant level, or is it growing/shrinking?
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  cyberpunk
  The release announcement has better details: https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html
• jbs789
  As someone reading this fresh, they are almost apologetic for a release with open issues. But presumably the release closes off many more than it creates. I could see any other author/org approaching the messaging very differently!
• Panino
  From the linked release announcement:> Improvements to the npf(7) firewall, including layer 2 and user/group filteringThat's a valuable, useful feature> New MICROVM kernel for x86... it can boot in about 10 msThat could open some doors, niceThere are some good hardware improvements too.
• sanxiyn
  Congratulations to the first NetBSD release with RISC-V port!
• irusensei
  > Improved support for vintage and misc. hardware: alpha evbppc hp300 hppa m68k mac68k macppc mips x68kIt is interesting to see that as Linux drops support for legacy computers NetBSD still welcomes them. This is a NetBSD thing as it's not so much for FreeBSD.As of now NetBSD is probably the go-to operating system for vintage hardware.
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  wormius
  Not about BSD, but anybody else using side tabs in FF with that site? Somehow the rendering of that dashed line at the top runs across into the "pinned tabs" section. (Linux/Wayland/Debian). Curious if anyone else is seeing it.
• gregdaniels421
  Ages ago I know someone did the work to get wine running on a then modern NetBSD, has that effort been kept up, and can it run reasonable programs? Ideally someone has tried it with some success, I am hoping to try running NetBSD on an old thinkpad, but I need some software for a SDR dongle that was only written for Windows, and works great under Wine on linux.
• Tronickle
  I hope AI will help niche operating systems like BSD reach a point where they can be used as practical daily drivers
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  imoverclocked
  > CD-ROM mediaWow, I just learned that I can still buy a pack of new CD-RW discs. This is an almost 30 year old format that is still published for!Long live ATAPI!Seriously though, why still publish CD formats when a usb-stick is far more ubiquitous and much easier to actually write. Are there systems that can boot CD-ROM interfaces that don't have USB boot capability still?
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  kogasa240p
  Very nice, wonder what's the state of using NetBSD as a daily driver?
• jmclnx
  Just finished upgrading, went easy. Because I am using cgd(4) I find it much easier to use sysupgrade(8) from pkgsrc.I was running the R/Cs without any issues, so I am sure 11.0 will be very stable.
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  roschdal
  NetBSD feels like a high quality, ancient relic from the University of California, Berkeley, from the 1970s, made for munks, secret FBI databases and special military operations.