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by anonsivalley652 2310 days ago
Be careful about labeling yourself with technology X, it can reinforce identity/religious tribalism/biases/limitations.

If you want to:

- Try out a different flavor of BSD derived from BSD 4.3 Reno before NetBSD forked to OpenBSD.

- Run a modern version of Xen as dom0 (the host). I found around the time of 6.1 that Xen on NetBSD worked better and was simpler than FreeBSD's installation. Maybe things have changed.

- Learn something new.

- Also, like FreeBSD, it supports ZFS.

It's often used by numerous small, independent ISPs for their core infrastructure when they need a little more flexibility than OpenBSD. OpenBSD is great for certain use-cases.

Here's the UNIX family tree:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/uploads/2009/06...