26/10/13 ⇒ NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818

26/10/03 ⇒ Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Improving and Stabilizing the racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD racoon2 is a system to exchange and install security parameters for IPsec. It consists of an IKEv1/IKEv2 key exchange daemon, a security policy management daemon, and a Kerberos-based key exchange daemon. The project lives at zoulasc/racoon2 and is being modernized so that it can serve as a reliable L2TP/IPsec or IKEv2 VPN server on NetBSD and Linux for built-in Windows, iOS and Android VPN clients. http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_racoon2

26/09/25 ⇒ NetBSD: Playing with disklabels Coming from DOS and Linux (and having largely ignored this on my OpenBSD systems -- yeah, shame on me), I'm not very familiar with the BSD disklabels. So let's have a look. https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-25/0/POSTING-en.html

26/09/06 ⇒ NetBSD 9.5 Released To Cap Off The Series NetBSD 9.5 released today as the final release of the NetBSD 9 stable branch. https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-9.5-Released

26/09/06 ⇒ NetBSD 11 from scratch In this post I will cover the installation process of the NetBSD operating system, including disk level encryption. Instead of using the standard installation program (sysinst), I decided to install NetBSD “from scratch”, as a way to dive into the internals, and learn more about the nuts and bolts of this great operating system. https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/06/netbsd-11-from-scratch/

Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD. https://bozo.httpd.rocks/

26/07/12 ⇒ Leanpub Book LAUNCH Three Essays on NetBSD by Chris Pinnock This book collects three essays I wrote in 2022 about the NetBSD operating system. https://leanpub.com/blog/leanpub-book-launch-three-essays-on-netbsd-by-chris-pinnock/

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and this time hopefully final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details. https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc4_available https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html ping: https://framapiaf.org/@jaypatelani@bsd.network/116570729312543808

I’d like to start here (as opposed to somewhere else?) by putting something on the record. Or the cassette tape, or whatever. Travan tape? LTO? https://www.rubenerd.au/a-hypothetical-netbsd-cyberdeck/

I've never participated in GSoC but have wanted to get involved with some NetBSD hacking. Is this open to all potential contributors or just students?

Congrats NetBSD! The first BSD I ever installed successfully... then quickly dropped it because I was lost and confused. But that's a reflection of where my skills were at many years ago... Since then NetBSD now has things like pkgsrc and bozohttpd. My time is fairly limited nowadays but it's still on my TODO to give NetBSD another serious go. It probably won't replace OpenBSD for me, but I love hacking on systems and NetBSD is the ultimate hacking OS. Looking forward to another year of NetBSD updates. Well done and thanks to all contributors! 🥳

Very helpful! I think I accidentally bricked my G4 cube while trying to install NetBSD/macppc several years ago because I wasn't careful while partitioning the hard disk.

See: https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/ src: https://fosstodon.org/@dwarmstrong/116392209156044836

Cool Dude

We have a Kiwix server at home for offline reference, and with NetBSD on an old iMac it's blazingly fast compared to Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi Model B. The internet here is slow, and I think Kiwix rate limits direct downloads. I'd like to set up torrenting to make the download for Wikipedia take less than an estimated 3 days, and so that peers can do the same. Even scp-ing what I have from another node seems it will take a while, so I just have Wiktionary at the moment. I see a handful of CLI BitTorrent clients packaged for NetBSD: btget, dtorrent, btpd, rtorrent, transmission. I have experience only with transmission, though if there's a "better" stable, small package, I'd prefer learning a second option. I will look into these myself in the meantime, but I'm posting here if anyone has experience or opinions, I would love to hear them, and posting here to share a NetBSD project.

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-exinst.html#fig-inst-mainmenu

https://agentoss.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/home-mail-server-with-postfix-dovecot-imap-squirrelmailroundcube-on-netbsd-6-0-1/

Thanks