NetBSD 9.0
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NetBSD 9.0
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Re: NetBSD 9.0
#2“Updated ZFS. This is the first release with ZFS usable for daily use, but there is no support for booting from ZFS nor using ZFS as root filesystem yet”
Grateful for this
Re: NetBSD 9.0
#3Wow, this looks like huge news for NetBSD. Not too in tune with the BSD ecosystem, but this sounds great for ARM servers.
Re: NetBSD 9.0
#4I am a Linux user. What would be a good reason for me to try out NetBSD? Honest question.
Re: NetBSD 9.0
#5I am a Linux user. What would be a good reason for me to try out NetBSD? Honest question.
BSDs have opinionated and generally well maintained ports collections and kernel features.
It can be a bit refreshing to use something where there is a reasonably well-documented "correct" tool to use.
Re: NetBSD 9.0
#6I am a Linux user. What would be a good reason for me to try out NetBSD? Honest question.
Without going too far in to the politics of GNU/Linux, it's a bit messy. All the distros are different from each other, plus they're changing so rapidly that a book about one version is much less useful for managing another (think Ubuntu 14 -> 16, or Ubuntu 16 -> 18).
Also, while GNU/Linux is generally portable, many of the things you learn about Ubuntu will be different on what you'd run on a Raspberry Pi, or an UltraSPARC, or on a PowerPC.
NetBSD is the same OS on all the hardware it supports, so the system consistently does what it does regardless of where it's run. If you want to develop on a desktop and deploy on a Pi, for example, you'll have a much easier time with NetBSD :)
Re: NetBSD 9.0
#7I am a Linux user. What would be a good reason for me to try out NetBSD? Honest question.
Well. Given the smaller user base the *BDSs are good candidates for a very low footprint secure OS installation. In our org we use an openbsd instance to run our low traffic but extremely secure master database. The system really spartan and has a very low footprint. It is sufficiently different from Linux that the casual automated attack wont work. Things like NetBSD are a useful starting point to getting an OS up and running on a new architecture. This happens quite frequently in research settings.
Re: NetBSD 9.0
#8I am a Linux user. What would be a good reason for me to try out NetBSD? Honest question.
Without going too far in to the politics of GNU/Linux, it's a bit messy. All the distros are different from each other, plus they're changing so rapidly that a book about one version is much less useful for managing another (think Ubuntu 14 -> 16, or Ubuntu 16 -> 18). Also, while GNU/Linux is generally portable, many of the things you learn about Ubuntu will be different on what you'd run on a Raspberry Pi, or an Ult…
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Re: NetBSD 9.0
#9I am a Linux user. What would be a good reason for me to try out NetBSD? Honest question.
Without going too far in to the politics of GNU/Linux, it's a bit messy. All the distros are different from each other, plus they're changing so rapidly that a book about one version is much less useful for managing another (think Ubuntu 14 -> 16, or Ubuntu 16 -> 18). Also, while GNU/Linux is generally portable, many of the things you learn about Ubuntu will be different on what you'd run on a Raspberry Pi, or an Ult…
Especially now that NetBSD can run on an RPi3. It was a bit embarassing that it could not.
Re: NetBSD 9.0
#10I am a Linux user. What would be a good reason for me to try out NetBSD? Honest question.
If you want a simpler system that is easy to understand, NetBSD is a pretty good choice. The source is almost entirely in a single repository for you to read, and you need a single command to build a boot-able release (you can even build it on other OSes and architectures). It's a level of familiarity with the inner workings of a system that is hard to express.
It has pretty decent support for ARM boards so that's the best hardware for trying it out, or not-too-recent x86 hardware. Another use case people have is using esoteric old machines like m68k and VAX, which NetBSD still supports with release builds.
Using it as a daily driver (I do) requires some tinkering on the initial setup, and people have mentioned it gives a vibe of using Gentoo, and that certainly has a market. But it's very easy to keep using the same setup you've had for years.
Most proprietary software doesn't support NetBSD, but if you were the type using primarily FOSS anyway, you might have all you need.