NetBSD 8.0 RC1 Available, Bringing Initial USB 3.0 Support & Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetBSD 8.0 RC1 Available, Bringing Initial USB 3.0 Support & Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation

It's a busy month for the BSDs with DragonFlyBSD 5.2 having come along with OpenBSD 6.3 and right before that was TrueOS 18.03. Now there's finally the release candidate of the long-awaited NetBSD 8.0 update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NetBSD-8.0-RC1-Released

[deant]

Waste of effort that otherwise could be used in other more relevant opensource developmen such as linux or freebsd. NetBSD is just not relevant anymore or even alive.

[Redfoxmoon]

Waste of effort that otherwise could be used in other more relevant opensource developmen such as linux or freebsd. NetBSD is just not relevant anymore or even alive.

Even though I am a hardcore Linux fan, netBSD does support a bunch of really obscure stuff nothing else (worthwhile!) does

[deant]

Even though I am a hardcore Linux fan, netBSD does support a bunch of really obscure stuff nothing else (worthwhile!) does

nothing against that.. just it realy lost its perspective, which I am sad for, coz I used it for some years and was very happy with it.

[rockworldmi]

deantNNetBSD have improved a lot these past year.. You might wanna revisit it.

[jacob]

nothing against that.. just it realy lost its perspective, which I am sad for, coz I used it for some years and was very happy with it.

I think NetBSD has another thing going for it: it's simple and easy to get into. Linux has grown to be a hugely complex beast that a computer science student won't understand and hack on in a matter of a couple of weeks or as a hobby, but NetBSD is very good for that. In a sense it's the new Minix, where people can easily learn stuff, experiment with it and get some hands-on experience with real world OS development.