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NetBSD 9.0 Released On Valentine's Day

Although this blog has its focus on Linux operating systems, we don't want to exclude other excellent operating systems. NetBSD 9.0 has been released a few days ago, on Valentine's Day.

The NetBSD project ("Of course it runs NetBSD") dates back to 1993. Founded by Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt (going his own ways with OpenBSD later), Adam Glass and Charles M. Hannum, the NetBSD project has released 17 major versions of their operating system.

NetBSD 9.0 includes:

+ support for AArch64 machines
+ enhanced hardware support for Armv7-A
+ upgraded GPU drivers on x86 (Linux 4.4 DRM/KMS)
+ new GPU drivers for Arm
+ support for hardware-accelerated virtualization via the NVMM hypervisor
+ loads of other improvements (see release notes)

Installing NetBSD 9.0 is relatively easy and I found a short video that illustrates the process of installing NetBSD 9.0.


NetBSD 9.1 was released in October, 2020.

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