Microsoft brought up an new processor[0][1][2] with NetBSD...[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;download&#x2F;details.aspx?id=52407" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;download&#x2F;details.aspx?id=524...</a>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.netbsd.org&#x2F;ports&#x2F;emips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.netbsd.org&#x2F;ports&#x2F;emips&#x2F;</a>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;publication&#x2F;an-online-scheduler-for-hardware-accelerators-on-general-purpose-operating-systems&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;publication&#x2F;an-onli...</a>

How usable are the BSDs as a GUI daily driver? Like 99% of Linux applications work out of the box or more like 50%?With new CVEs being discovered in ancient bedrock code on the daily, it seems prudent to switch to a NetBSD&#x2F;OpenBSD&#x2F;Qubes system for the next few years until some vulnerabilities might get smoothed over.

I wonder if the popularity of NetBSD for research has to do with how easy it is to compile a version of NetBSD with favorable licenses.You can opt to build it yourself and exclude anything that is not 2-clause BSD licensed, as some drivers and such are if I recall correctly.

Makes me wonder - in the year of Astra and Fable what prevents people from building bespoke BSDs for their hardware rapidly now?

HN

Research carried out using NetBSD

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