NetBSD

Evidence (7)

• 2Hacker News·9/6/2026research
  NetBSD Research Projects Highlighted

  The item lists multiple research and demonstration projects that have used NetBSD as a platform, including work on TCP for satellite networks, IPv6/IPsec, network access control, tunneling, spam protection, and a sendmail replacement. It is primarily a catalog of research activity rather than a report on a single new release or breakthrough.

• 5Hacker News·9/6/2026open_source
  NetBSD 9.5 Released, Ending NetBSD 9 Support

  The NetBSD Project has released NetBSD 9.5, the fifth and final maintenance release in the NetBSD 9 stable branch. The update includes selected security and stability fixes and is fully compatible with NetBSD 9.0. The project also announced end-of-support for all NetBSD-9.x releases and urged users to upgrade to newer versions such as NetBSD 10.2 or NetBSD 11.0.

• 2Hacker News·8/22/2026open_source
  NetBSD Use Case in a Large-Scale UK Network

  This 2005 message describes a UK network administrator's experience running NetBSD 2.0.2 on 29 servers supporting more than 4,800 users. The systems handled MySQL, Apache, Postfix, Samba, and NFS-connected file services, and the author contrasted the stability of NetBSD with prior Windows-based operations. The item is primarily a user testimonial about operational reliability rather than a product announcement.

• 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.