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NetBSD - thoughts?
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this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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Yes, it is mostly appliances, but an (informal?) stated goal of NetBSD is too run on all computing hardware.
Naturally, that makes NetBSD a good choice for appliances, especially ones that might only have limited memory.
(Here is a quick explainer on the difference between Jails, Zones, Containers, and VMs)
EDIT1: someone pointed out to me that ZFS is not supported on OpenBSD. Sorry about that everyone.
EDIT2: there is a ZFS driver for NetBSD
But there is zfs support in netbsd... https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs/
According to the wiki, ZFS "works well" but doesn't seem to be as stable as in FreeBSD or OpenIndiana, and is not enabled by default so you have to update your
rc.conffile to build the ZFS drivers.