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I'm happy to see news about NetBSD, via Distrowatch, in the form of an exhaustive, highly technical interview with some of its developers in Ars Technica.
As you might know (or not), NetBSD's niche in the BSD and general operating-system world is its availability on a large number of platforms -- 54 (and counting, I presume.
"Of course it runs NetBSD" is the project's motto. I'll try it again on my VIA C3 Samuel-based machine that only runs OpenBSD and not FreeBSD. I do believe I tried an older version of NetBSD on it, and it wouldn't boot, but I will try again. Not that I need to run NetBSD, which is not exactly well-known for its use on the desktop, but I remain intrigued by the three major BSD projects -- NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD -- and their various offshoots (including DesktopBSD and PC-BSD, based on FreeBSD; and OliveBSD, which I recently tested and which is based on OpenBSD).
While I don't think any of the BSDs is a great choice for the desktop at this point, I see improvements all the time and hope that the BSD projects provide even more competition for Linux in the server and desktop worlds.
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