NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance

After being in development since 2019, the huge NetBSD 10.0 is out today as a wonderful Easter surprise...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10.0-Released

[mxan]

Many great improvements - but what made it take so long?

[cen1]

Many great improvements - but what made it take so long?

NetBSD is a very small community, what exactly do you expect, them churning out releases every year?

[kylew77]

Could we get some benchmarks comparing 10.0 to 9.3 Michael? Assuming you have hardware that is supported. Probably would be best to try something at least 5 years old and a desktop not a laptop. This is such an exciting release!

[Michael]

Could we get some benchmarks comparing 10.0 to 9.3 Michael? Assuming you have hardware that is supported. Probably would be best to try something at least 5 years old and a desktop not a laptop. This is such an exciting release!

Yes I have interest in doing so but yes hardware support concerns has been my main hesitation without going down a rabbit hole of spending a lot of time to see what works nicely first with NetBSD 9. Not thinking of laptops but either desktops or more than likely I would assume servers (unless there is more NetBSD desktop use these days than servers?) given the use-case. But yeah will try to see what relatively modern servers I can get working well on NetBSD 9 within a few tries to be able to do such a comparison.

[and.elf]

Why (Net)BSD over Linux?

[andyprough]

Many great improvements - but what made it take so long?

It takes a long time because NetBSD supports 34 different architectures, the most of any OS. There's a 2020 blog post by Aaron S. Jackson about getting NetBSD running on a VAX 4000 Model 300 from about 1990: http://aaronsplace.co.uk/blog/2020-0...-4000-300.html
He also put up a video about it: https://piped.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=MjzX9Sk5Ax0

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Why (Net)BSD over Linux?

Why Coke over Pepsi? Both of these questions are dumb. Different humans like and are interested in different things.

[and.elf]

Why Coke over Pepsi? Both of these questions are dumb. Different humans like and are interested in different things.

That's what I asked: what is the difference between them. Different goals, strategies, etc? I asked because I want to know what a quick search doesn't reveal.

[dlq84]

That's what I asked: what is the difference between them. Different goals, strategies, etc? I asked because I want to know what a quick search doesn't reveal.

If you're too lazy to research what BSD is you're too lazy to use it. So stick with Linux is my recommendation.