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  • 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.

    by jmclnx
  • > CD-ROM media

    Wow, 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?

    by imoverclocked
  • NetBSD is the only nix I've ever been able to use for novel (for me) tasks without consulting the internet for help; the design is so clean and the documentation complete that I never felt the need for outside help. I love the package management system. Definitely my desert island OS.
    by helterskelter
  • 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!
    by jbs789
  • From the linked release announcement:

    > Improvements to the npf(7) firewall, including layer 2 and user/group filtering

    That's a valuable, useful feature

    > New MICROVM kernel for x86... it can boot in about 10 ms

    That could open some doors, nice

    There are some good hardware improvements too.

    by Panino
  • The release announcement has better details: https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html
    by cyberpunk
  • 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?
    by haberman
  • When I was in graduate school, I was doing a lot of molecular dynamics simulations, but I did not have access to a lot of high-performance hardware. The math department had a 4-node Cray that was impossible to reserve time on, and the CS department had a 16-node Dell cluster that ran SGE and was decently reliable. When those resources ended up not being enough for my crazy array of tasks, I got resourceful and started gathering every single outdated CPU anyone anywhere on campus was getting rid of or had no use for, and built my own cluster in our lab. Before finishing my Ph.D. I had 12 SGI Indys, 8 PowerMac G3 6300s, 10 PowerMac G3 7600s, and 20+ Dell P3 towers in my "cluster".

    NetBSD is the only thing that made that possible.

    by jballanc

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