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NetBSD: the portable, lightweight, and robust UNIX-like operating system (www.osnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Wholly, entirely, irelevent. Search the number of people who use NetBSD once a week compared to the number of people who use FreeBSD once a month or OpenBSD once a month. Check the number of people who have at least installed NetBSD. See what it's used for. NetBSD is completely forgettable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Even though it's not as popular as the other options, parts of NetBSD are used for many usecases. Take a look at

https://netbsd.org/gallery/products.html

and you'll see many familiar names.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I question the claim about Apple Darwin using NetBSD since Mac is based on a 10+ year very old version of FreeBSD, and Playsttion 4 and 5 uses FreeBSD. Sony aubmits code to FreeBSD to get it supported for Playstation.

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