NetBSD is a nice system, especially as a firewall, VPN endpoint, web server, mail server. A barebones installation takes up only about 200MB of disk space. No services are running by default, except perhaps Postfix. There are unique features : the ability to compile and install software as an unprivileged user, for example. It's a nice platform to run Xen virtual machines -- very lightweight and secure. And blazing fast. The graphics stack in 10 is at the same level as Linux 5.6, so much improved over what it was just a few years ago. I hope you enjoy it, and looking forward to more videos on this much neglected but cleverly engineered operating system.
That was enlightening.... so much I don't know.... whilst I will always be a FreeBSD channel, I will dip my toes as really NetBSD and FreeBSD are siblings of sorts....
@@RoboNuggie something rarely mentioned regarding NetBSD is its security by default. Not through any feature in particular, but through its emphasis on code correctness. Far too many reviews trot out the stale old cliches about how NetBSD can be run on anything from a toaster to a supercomputer, but there are far more compelling reasons to choose NetBSD nowadays. Your review not included, by the way!
@@gezley100 Very cool, I didn't know that! You always hear about OpenBSD as the secure one and FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD as the fast ones. I am hopeful that by NetBSD 10.1 or 11.0 or something like that I can have good support for my graphics on a ZEN 2 CPU so I can give NetBSD a fair shake!
I love NetBSD. Years ago it was the only Os I could use on a cute Sparc Station IPC instead of the old Solaris version. I think I even played Quake 3 on my bi Celeron with a Voodoo 3, with the guy who developed pkgbin and others.
Hello RoboNuggie! Wow, my dad used 386BSD when Bill Jolitz wrote about it in Dr. Dobbs. Its come a long way since then. Thanks for a good video my dad and I can enjoy together.
Being a NetBSD daily driver as my main desktop, I can assure you that NetBSD is good for your soul ;) You may yet be saved. Perhaps next time you can go into pkgsrc and how to build the apps. I think that'd be a great video for the masses. Binary packages are great, but nothing makes you look 10x more intelligent as your boss conveniently walks past after you've kicked off a build of something trivial you want to use and he gets to see all the build logs flying up the screen.
Very cool, I have been wanting to give NetBSD it's first fair shake since series 7. Unfortunately, all my computers save one old busted one that is too old to run NetBSD 10.0. This video let me see what 10 is all about! Thanks again RoboNuggie for all you do sir!
NetBSD's internet documentation leaves much to be desired so many years later, but thankfully man 8 afterboot started with NetBSD and got passed along to OpenBSD as well.
Thanks for the video Christopher ! I've never tried NetBSD. I am more of a FreeBSD purist... It's hard not to be with great documentation and all your videos !
You know how to say the right things Jeff :-) FreeBSD and NetBSD are related, so I like you are a FreeBSD purist and I can use this and not feel guilty :-)
That brings me back to my early days of Mandrake Linux! Very simple GUI with very little flare and just enough functionality to do the bare bones of work! I do have a question, though: what is NetBSD's targeted audience? Like, is it more for embedded systems like firewall devices and such?
"The NetBSD site states that: “The NetBSD Project provides a freely available and redistributable system that professionals, hobbyists, and researchers can use in whatever manner they wish”. It is also an ideal system if you want to learn Unix, mainly because of its adherence to standards (one of the project goals) and because it works equally well on the latest PC hardware as well as on hardware which is considered obsolete by many other operating systems." (From the NetBSD guide.)
@RoboNuggie Maybe my internet was acting up that day. Anyway I am a linux user but am trying out the BSDs. And I like it. Sure, there's a learning curve on how things are done in the BSDs but is manageable. I learned alot of bsd from your excellent tutorials. Keep up the great work. 👍👍👍
I love NetBSD, but the desktop would randomly freeze up and become unresponsive after a long period of use. I could never figure out why it did that. Sadly, I ended up moving on because of it. Does it still do that? I would love to give it a spin again because I haven't used it since the 8.0 release.
Unfortunately, Nouveau is the only option for nvidia cards on NetBSD, nvidia hasn't ported their proprietary drivers to NetBSD. If you plan on trying to game on the OS, (older, as in supported by Linux 5.6 from early 2020) Intel or AMD GPUs are really the only solid options for now.
I gave NetBSD a try long ago in the early 2000's on a Fujitsu Lifebook P2110 laptop and was the most responsive OS on that particular hardware
NetBSD is on my target for "truly minimalist" systems to run with a graphical environment. A real champion of function over form, for sure.
The BSD's sure are comforting.
It always feels like coming home when logging into a BSD machine.
On the BSD journey since 2009.
Great video!
You truly make computing exciting again! Thank you always for sharing your time and making videos on FreeBSD
My pleasure!
This one was on NetBSD.
This looks like a good alternative to FreeBSD, if it ever becomes necessary. Thanks for covering the other BSDs now and then.
NetBSD is a nice system, especially as a firewall, VPN endpoint, web server, mail server. A barebones installation takes up only about 200MB of disk space. No services are running by default, except perhaps Postfix. There are unique features : the ability to compile and install software as an unprivileged user, for example. It's a nice platform to run Xen virtual machines -- very lightweight and secure. And blazing fast. The graphics stack in 10 is at the same level as Linux 5.6, so much improved over what it was just a few years ago. I hope you enjoy it, and looking forward to more videos on this much neglected but cleverly engineered operating system.
That was enlightening.... so much I don't know.... whilst I will always be a FreeBSD channel, I will dip my toes as really NetBSD and FreeBSD are siblings of sorts....
@@RoboNuggie something rarely mentioned regarding NetBSD is its security by default. Not through any feature in particular, but through its emphasis on code correctness. Far too many reviews trot out the stale old cliches about how NetBSD can be run on anything from a toaster to a supercomputer, but there are far more compelling reasons to choose NetBSD nowadays. Your review not included, by the way!
@@gezley100 Very cool, I didn't know that! You always hear about OpenBSD as the secure one and FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD as the fast ones. I am hopeful that by NetBSD 10.1 or 11.0 or something like that I can have good support for my graphics on a ZEN 2 CPU so I can give NetBSD a fair shake!
I love NetBSD.
Years ago it was the only Os I could use on a cute Sparc Station IPC instead of the old Solaris version.
I think I even played Quake 3 on my bi Celeron with a Voodoo 3, with the guy who developed pkgbin and others.
Now that I would have liked to see..... thank you for this!
Hello RoboNuggie! Wow, my dad used 386BSD when Bill Jolitz wrote about it in Dr. Dobbs. Its come a long way since then. Thanks for a good video my dad and I can enjoy together.
Your dad sounds like a cool guy Esra.... thanks for dropping by :-)
Creepy AI pfp bro.
Being a NetBSD daily driver as my main desktop, I can assure you that NetBSD is good for your soul ;) You may yet be saved. Perhaps next time you can go into pkgsrc and how to build the apps. I think that'd be a great video for the masses. Binary packages are great, but nothing makes you look 10x more intelligent as your boss conveniently walks past after you've kicked off a build of something trivial you want to use and he gets to see all the build logs flying up the screen.
Very cool, I have been wanting to give NetBSD it's first fair shake since series 7. Unfortunately, all my computers save one old busted one that is too old to run NetBSD 10.0. This video let me see what 10 is all about! Thanks again RoboNuggie for all you do sir!
Thank you for this.... your computer collection sounds like mine.... :-)
Great! Thank you so much for doing this! 🎉
You are so welcome!
You can select menu items by clicking the appropriate letter -- a for first option, for example, x for last option in the list.
NetBSD's internet documentation leaves much to be desired so many years later, but thankfully man 8 afterboot started with NetBSD and got passed along to OpenBSD as well.
Congratulations man!!! I'm returning to the BSD world and I loved your video. Thanks!!!
Welcome back!
Thanks for the video Christopher ! I've never tried NetBSD. I am more of a FreeBSD purist... It's hard not to be with great documentation and all your videos !
You know how to say the right things Jeff :-)
FreeBSD and NetBSD are related, so I like you are a FreeBSD purist and I can use this and not feel guilty :-)
Might move my OpenBSD Minecraft server to NetBSD. It looks interesting.
wow... 1995 says hi :)
2024 says "Still goin strong"
That brings me back to my early days of Mandrake Linux! Very simple GUI with very little flare and just enough functionality to do the bare bones of work!
I do have a question, though: what is NetBSD's targeted audience? Like, is it more for embedded systems like firewall devices and such?
NetBSD's target audience? I think it's more or less for anyone that might want it....it seems to have an eclectic audience to say the least :-)
@@RoboNuggie Ok. I might give it a go and play with it some. See how I like it. 😊
"The NetBSD site states that: “The NetBSD Project provides a freely available and redistributable system that professionals, hobbyists, and researchers can use in whatever manner they wish”. It is also an ideal system if you want to learn Unix, mainly because of its adherence to standards (one of the project goals) and because it works equally well on the latest PC hardware as well as on hardware which is considered obsolete by many other operating systems." (From the NetBSD guide.)
They have version 10.6 now. I noticed that the download speed in netbsd is much slower than in freebsd.
Ah, I didn't notice that....
@RoboNuggie Maybe my internet was acting up that day. Anyway I am a linux user but am trying out the BSDs. And I like it. Sure, there's a learning curve on how things are done in the BSDs but is manageable. I learned alot of bsd from your excellent tutorials. Keep up the great work. 👍👍👍
I believe Europe/London would have been a better choice for timezone.
I have to try it.
Nice to see how the half lives lol. Its a fast desktop too
It's an interesting OS for sure...
I love NetBSD, but the desktop would randomly freeze up and become unresponsive after a long period of use. I could never figure out why it did that. Sadly, I ended up moving on because of it. Does it still do that? I would love to give it a spin again because I haven't used it since the 8.0 release.
How to install driver for Realtek network 2.5gbit RTL8125B-CG on freebsd ?
There is some info here....
forums.freebsd.org/threads/realtek-rtl-8125-2-5gbps-lan-controller.79710/
Nice video, but how about nvidia drivers?
I'll look at that when NetBSD is officially released.... which hopefully is soon....
@@RoboNuggie Thank you very much. I look forward to the review
🙂
Unfortunately, Nouveau is the only option for nvidia cards on NetBSD, nvidia hasn't ported their proprietary drivers to NetBSD. If you plan on trying to game on the OS, (older, as in supported by Linux 5.6 from early 2020) Intel or AMD GPUs are really the only solid options for now.
@@TetrisMaster512 Thank you for the info. I think i will stick with FreeBSD 13.3 :)
Tumbleweed has one of the highest scores with Lynis. 80. No themes on netbsd?
80? Crikey.... themes, I will be doing a review proper late of NetBSD, so I'll have a look then....
@@RoboNuggie Yep 80. I used Tumbleweed for a while that's why I know.
what are the specs of the dell used ?
(Sorry for the delay in getting back to you)
it's a Dell Optiplex, with a core-duo : 3.0 Ghz , 8GB and a Nvidia 710... nothing flash but reliable....
I tried my laptop, no wifi
I want to see if I use OpenBsd wireless driver will it work.
🙋
Cheers Lee :-)
@@RoboNuggie ❤️
funny ,any new content creator i waiting for the awful synthetic ai accent which leaves me with a cold shivering...lol
What country are you from? You type commas and spaces in the wrong order.