What can you do with a laptop enough to drink even in the Puritan ex-colonies? 21 years is a long time for computer hardware– but [Chris] is using his early-2004 iBook G4 for game dev thanks to NetBSD ...

NetBSD 11 is taking shape and the code branch for the new release has been created.… The NetBSD project blog reveals that the NetBSD 11.0 release process is under way. That means it's now possible to ...

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Developers of the highly portable operating system have made a plea for users to donate "cold, hard cash" to the open source project. In an e-mail to NetBSD's community, spokesperson Thor Lancelot ...

A recent change was announced to the NetBSD commit guidelines which amends these to state that code which was generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) or similar technologies, such as ChatGPT, ...

The NetBSD operating system offers portability, networking and licensing advantages to embedded device OEMs. But NetBSD currently lacks an integrated development environment (IDE) that's as ...

10G Ethernet vendor Force10 Networks is changing the operating system on its data center switches to NetBSD, an open source platform, with the aim of improving switch performance for customers. The ...

Wasabi Systems--which sells a rendition of the NetBSD version of Unix for non-PC-embedded computing devices such as routers--has translated that software to work with IBM's PowerPC 405GP chip. Wasabi ...

A compression library included by default in Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD distros, contains a vulnerability that can allow hackers to execute code on user machines. The ...