alt.hn

2/11/2026 at 2:01:56 AM

NetBSD 11.0 RC1

 https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html

by unleaded

2/11/2026 at 11:12:56 AM

> New MICROVM kernel for x86, supporting both i386 and amd64, NetBSD 11.0 introduces a dedicated MICROVM kernel designed for extremely fast virtual machines boot, leveraging PVH boot, VirtIO MMIO, and multiple kernel optimizations, it can boot in about 10 ms on 2020-era x86 CPUs.

Exciting

by kryptiskt

2/11/2026 at 8:46:04 PM

This sounds pretty cool. I have a couple of old DELL 630s that were automotive diagnostic computers, due to them being the last model with a real hardware serial port. Now I am thinking of reviving them with Linux, but just to host old windows VMs (all the auto diag software is windows only). Maybe I should give netbsd a try here.

by carefree-bob

2/11/2026 at 12:18:21 PM

great callout

by liveoneggs

2/11/2026 at 6:36:33 PM

Fun fact: NetBSD supports VAX 70/380 system from 1978/79!

That's the oldest known architecture that can run modern Unix. 32 bit, MMU, multi cpu: ahead of it's time.

So if you travel back in time: that's a safe platform if you would like to do some system programming with modern knowledge.

by iberator

2/12/2026 at 9:55:13 AM

The website is ideal on phones without JS: there is a small, CSS based hamburger button at the bottom. I've long suspected that this is the only structure that makes sense, but I don't think I've ever seen in it the wild before.

by bmacho

2/11/2026 at 9:42:09 PM

> New port to the RISC-V processor architecture. NetBSD 11.0 is the first stable release to include support for 64-bit RISC-V

This is very exciting!

by Pet_Ant