| I am, and love it. It's not without flaws, but it's compelling enough that I live with its shortcomings. What do I like ? 1) One codebase that supports 57 targets. This code is well exercised. 2) Nice balance of conservatism and progressiveness. Seems well-rooted in tradition, but still progressive/interesting with things like the RUMP kernels[0], Lua kernel interface[1], etc. 3) Plays well with others. It's probably out-and-about more than people realize. I once had a printer that had NetBSD as its OS. Original Apple airport units[2] were NetBSD (as is a good amount of MacOS X userland[3], apparently) -- but as an explicit product (i.e.: using it directly by choice), it's nice, and it interacts well enough with other systems as well. It's got a simple httpd in the base, and ftpd, ssh, etc for swapping files in/out in an emergency. It will read FAT filesystems, or ext2,3(,4?), it runs firefox, etc. (admittedly, I don't care too much about high-level end-user software, and depending on what you think you need, you might be better served elsewhere -- including moving to Windows or MacOS X). 4) I've used NetBSD as my principle OS since 1.6 (2002). It has supported my work, taught me things, and kept my interest. If you're interested in seeing what it's about, you should install it and give it a good try. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel [1] https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/mbalmer/fosdem2... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4117803 [3] http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin |