NetBSD: The Research OS Behind NASA, Internet2 Records, and More
Research carried out using NetBSD
NetBSD's official gallery showcases a surprising range of research projects that rely on the operating system. NASA uses NetBSD for satellite TCP experiments and even plans to run it on the International Space Station. Researchers at SUNET set an Internet2 Land Speed Record using NetBSD, transferring 840 GB in under 30 minutes. The KAME project's IPv6/IPsec implementation was merged into NetBSD, and the UVM virtual memory system replaced the traditional BSD VM. From TCP Vegas to scalable timer facilities, NetBSD's clean, portable codebase makes it a preferred platform for cutting-edge systems research.
According to the research team, NetBSD was chosen "due to the scalability of the TCP code".
- bch
Microsoft brought up an new processor[0][1][2] with NetBSD...
[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=524...
[1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/an-onli...
- galleywest200
I wonder if the popularity of NetBSD for research has to do with how easy it is to compile a version of NetBSD with favorable licenses.
You can opt to build it yourself and exclude anything that is not 2-clause BSD licensed, as some drivers and such are if I recall correctly.
- 3eb7988a1663
How usable are the BSDs as a GUI daily driver? Like 99% of Linux applications work out of the box or more like 50%?
With new CVEs being discovered in ancient bedrock code on the daily, it seems prudent to switch to a NetBSD/OpenBSD/Qubes system for the next few years until some vulnerabilities might get smoothed over.