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NetBSD has introduced atto, a new beginner-friendly text editor aimed at making the operating system more approachable for newcomers.
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 practical guide to running a lightweight web server on NetBSD 11 using the stock bozohttpd daemon, with HTTPS set up via acme-client and Let's Encrypt, aimed at small-scale or homebrew projects.
Google Summer of Code 2026 report on modernizing NetBSD's racoon2 IKE daemon, adding proper RFC-compliant IKE fragmentation, NAT traversal (NAT-OA payloads and NAT-T address substitution), IPv6 support, and a unit test framework to serve as a reliable IKEv2/L2TP VPN server.
The article provides a hands-on exploration of BSD disklabels on NetBSD 11, detailing their format, documentation sources, and structure through hex editing and C programming examples.
A Google Summer of Code 2026 project report details efforts to improve testing of NetBSD's Linux compatibility layer using the Linux Test Project, including compiling tests, creating packages, and documenting syscall emulations.
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 NetBSD Project announced NetBSD 9.5, the final release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch containing security and stability fixes, and declared end-of-life for all NetBSD-9.x releases.
This article reports on Google Summer of Code 2026 work to improve RAIDframe in NetBSD, including implementing N-way RAID 1 for multiple disk mirroring and adding RAID scrubbing support.
A practical guide to setting up a simple web server using bozohttpd on NetBSD, including configuration via inetd, HTTPS with acme-client, and optional multi-site setup.
NetBSD 11.0 has been released after a long delay, with installation images and notes available. The release acknowledges open security issues and plans a follow-up 11.1 within two months.
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.