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Re:Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends by jmclnx on Sunday October 26, 2025 @11:04AM (#45712464)
Same here. But one other thing to add for new responses about "Why NetBSD", the rump kernel.

Years ago I had to get a very old document off of a DOS diskette. So I tried:

* On Linux: accessing the diskette would cause a panic or a reboot or massive read failures.

* FreeBSD: panics all the time

* NetBSD: panics. But then I remembered it had rump. So I said, why not try that. Started up rump, got a few code dumps, but after a some tries I got a bit over 90% of the document off of the diskette. The main system had no issues with the rump kernel crashing.

So that alone is worth the "price of admission" :)

Re:Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends by jaypatelani on Sunday October 26, 2025 @11:36AM (#45712731)
Wow this is cool. I always get fascinated by how people have used NetBSD.
Re:Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends by nolist_policy on Sunday October 26, 2025 @12:01PM (#45712901)
Linux can do that with User Mode Linux.