Thread: Is NetBSD dead?
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Old 28th November 2013
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Quote:
trollaxor.com/2011/10/netbsd-designed-to-fail.html
Some reasonable pro-NetBSD replies in this thread..

Even though this dispute is turning into *yet another* holy war, the problem is obviously there. You can see by the amount of posts in each *BSD section on this forum how fewer people use NetBSD, once equal to FreeBSD and having given birth to OpenBSD. NetBSD is now loosing to Linux one of its strongholds, the embedded devices market.. This is shame, cause the NetBSD team has produced a lot of high quality code now borrowed into FreeBSD and other OSes. May be this means that producing an OS for such a broad variety of architectures is more demanding than the little NetBSD developers community can handle, so the usability suffers. I think some of the pre-6 releases are here to blame, although NetBSD 6 is really good indeed.