If you ever find yourself interested in living in a NetBSD system, check out the SDF: sdf.org
the SuperDimensionalFortress has been around since the 80s and is now one of the largest installations of NetBSD in the US/world. Membership gets you such perks as: email address, a private (invite-only) Mastodon instance, a hosted Matrix instance, and more.
While you aren't an administrator on the SDF instance, you can definitely get a sense of what it's like. Different membership tiers get you access to different tools: Free users don't get IRC outbound, MetaARPA members are granted access to the big disk store and hosted websites and even development tools.
Hooray! I've been running successive release candidates in a VM for a couple of weeks now, just upgraded to 10.0-RC6 this week. Guess I'll do another upgrade soon.
The Amiga port got significant improvements, including many not listed in the release notes.
Xorg works much better now, first boot is significantly faster, and tools used for writing the installer image into disk can safely work with partitions extending above 4GB or over 4GB size.
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the SuperDimensionalFortress has been around since the 80s and is now one of the largest installations of NetBSD in the US/world. Membership gets you such perks as: email address, a private (invite-only) Mastodon instance, a hosted Matrix instance, and more.
While you aren't an administrator on the SDF instance, you can definitely get a sense of what it's like. Different membership tiers get you access to different tools: Free users don't get IRC outbound, MetaARPA members are granted access to the big disk store and hosted websites and even development tools.
It represents cumulative improvements to the operating system since NetBSD 9.x was originally branched in 2019.
Xorg works much better now, first boot is significantly faster, and tools used for writing the installer image into disk can safely work with partitions extending above 4GB or over 4GB size.
Long live NetBSD.
My system uptime is counted in years.
I've been running a few versions of the RCs for NetBSD 10 on a Pine RockPro64. A few reasons NetBSD 10 is a good choice for this Aarch64 device:
- Handles ARM's big.LITTLE well. You can use /usr/sbin/schedctl -A 4,5 to pin a process to the fast cores.
- Generally rock solid -- I've had uptimes in months and generally only rebooted when I upgraded. Like today!
- Can boot from an eMMC instead of an SD card.
- Supports the PCIe card. I have an SSD adapter. You can even use ZFS.
- HDMI support.