NetBSD 9.3 Released

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seems to be a dup, but more comments in this post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368400

I love netBSD change logs. They always list stuff like bug fixes or new support for old stuff like Amigas or the Dreamcast lol

My favorite: luna68k - make kernel messages green to match other ports and show off color support.

> The general NetBSD community is very excited about NetBSD 10.0

The upcoming NetBSD 10 will have WireGuard support, which is exciting. It's been in -current for about 2 years now.

Love to see the *BSDs get some love on the front page of HN!

Anyone use netbsd? Any good use cases? Just wondering its place in the Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD world.

Isn't breadth and duration of hardware support one of NetBSD's claims to fame? (My understanding is that this is not about things like x86 peripheral coverage so much as CPU architectures.)

Portability is one of the top priorities for NetBSD IIRC, which is one of the reasons you can use its package manager on other operating systems, like Linux or macOS. It's a good one, too!

I'm using it to write this post.

Why do you prefer to use NetBSD? What do you use NetBSD for?

Not a user, but it appears it has Bluetooth support - unlike OpenBSD.

Just upgraded from 9.2, easy-peezy

Yes, sysupgrade was very gentle and forgiving. The 9.3 pkgsrc update/upgrade has an issue with version/patch 38 and 39 of pysomething or other which I suspect broke cns font width calculation.

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