Thread: Is NetBSD dead?
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Old 26th November 2013
divel divel is offline
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Default The future of NetBSD

Maybe you are interested in reading about the progress of the project which, they say, is still in force today:

See the threads started in August ~ September about "The future of NetBSD":
lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2006-August/thread.html#4152
Comments:
slashdot.org/story/06/08/31/0348243/the-future-of-netbsd
More:
trollaxor.com/2011/10/netbsd-designed-to-fail.html
Devastating:
julipedia.meroh.net/2013/06/self-interview-after-leaving-netbsd.html

Or you can visit the Phonorix site for further conclusions.


Shep said:
"If being able to build and contribute to a project has value to you or you are running some exotic hardware NetBSD might be a good choice."

That's why I stopped idealizing *nix systems and went back to Windows. The computing stopped being my main job and did not need a bulldozer to browse from home.

If you need to find more than one reason to use NetBSD probably do not need.