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title: Thinking of NetBSD
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  display_name: manu
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excerpt: When was younger, when I was in high school, I used to run NetBSD (3.1 through
  5.0) on a old Pentium 3, a toy home server. NetBSD is a wonderful system. It is
  the way a UNIX system should be.<p><a href="http://santoro.tk/blog/?p=245">Continue
  reading</a></p>
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date: '2013-10-24 01:36:30 +0000'
date_gmt: '2013-10-23 23:36:30 +0000'
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<p>When was younger, when I was in high school, I used to run NetBSD (3.1 through 5.0) on a old Pentium 3, a toy home server.</p>
<p>NetBSD is a wonderful system. It is the way a UNIX system should be.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m writing this post with sadness.</p>
<p>I <del>am</del> was considering to switch back to NetBSD, but I discovered I just can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>NetBSD always had a lot less drivers compared to GNU/Linux.</p>
<p>Today that&#8217;s even worse. Today even Xorg requires some kernel-based support, which is absent in NetBSD.</p>
<p>Also, as someone told me in the #netbsd channel on Freenode, NetBSD also has a shortage of developers.</p>
<p>I am afraid the NetBSD project is going to die in the next decade.</p>
<p>So sad :&#8217;(</p>