NetBSD

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A portable open-source BSD operating system.

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Placed in Assess: 4 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by open-source activity, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 40%.

6Hacker News·8/1/2026open_source
NetBSD 11.0 Released
The NetBSD project has released NetBSD 11.0 after a delayed release cycle. The announcement highlights updated installation guidance, separate CD-sized and DVD-sized ISO images, ARM bootable images, and notes several known open security issues that will be addressed in the stable branch and upcoming 11.1 release.
4Hacker News·7/2/2026open_source
Vulkan brings graphics progress to NetBSD
The project documents an attempt to get Vulkan running on NetBSD, focusing on the work needed to enable modern graphics support on the operating system. It appears to be an open-source technical effort rather than a finished product release.
7Hacker News·7/2/2026product_launch
ZeroFS introduces a log-structured filesystem for S3
ZeroFS is an open-source filesystem that serves S3-compatible storage as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, and as raw block devices over NBD. It writes data as immutable, compressed, encrypted segments and includes local caching, checkpoints, replication, and durability semantics for different mount types.
4Hacker News·6/28/2026research
OpenBSD on the Lemote Yeeloong and the roots of China's MIPS laptops
The article describes using a Lemote Yeeloong laptop, a MIPS64-based machine, to run OpenBSD and explore an uncommon portable BSD setup. It also traces the historical context behind the processor lineage, focusing on China's 863 Program and the development of indigenous semiconductor and computing efforts.