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AlpineBSD is a work-in-progress operating system combining the NetBSD kernel with an Alpine Linux-inspired userspace, with a stated goal of using as little AI-generated software as possible in its base system and repositories.

A detailed overview of a restored PDP-11/83 system running 2.11BSD Unix, showcasing its hardware components, software setup, and networking capabilities for serving a web page.

A comprehensive review of the AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS, covering its build quality, BIOS, and performance with FreeBSD and other BSD operating systems.

This NetBSD gallery page highlights various academic and industrial research projects utilizing the operating system, including NASA's satellite TCP experiments, the KAME IPv6/IPsec project, and high-speed networking demonstrations.

The article provides a step-by-step guide on setting up OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4 per month, covering the process from downloading the OS image to creating and configuring a droplet.

The article recounts the historical impact of the BSD 4.2 sockets interface released in 1983, which standardized network access and paved the way for modern online services.

Game of Trees is a version control system from OpenBSD developers that prioritizes simplicity and uses Git repositories. Version 0.127 was released in July 2026.

The article recounts the author's experience installing and using NetBSD as a desktop operating system, highlighting its retro feel and historical significance as a descendant of BSD Unix.

A project to bring Vulkan support to NetBSD using Mesa's Lavapipe software driver has reached beta, with the driver building and installing on NetBSD 10.1 amd64 and prebuilt binaries forthcoming.

OpenBSD 7.9 has been released, featuring platform-specific improvements for arm64, amd64, luna88k, riscv64, and other architectures, along with various bug fixes and enhanced hardware support.

wayland.fyi is a minimalist special interest group advocating for simpler Wayland implementations, criticizing the complexity of mainstream libraries like wlroots and promoting lightweight alternatives such as neuswc.