NetBSD Alternatives

    NetBSD is described as 'free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system. It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices' and is a Operating System in the OS & Utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to NetBSD for a variety of platforms, including BSD, Self-Hosted solutions, Linux, Mac and Windows. The best alternative is FreeBSD, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like NetBSD are OpenBSD (Free, Open Source), MINIX 3 (Free, Open Source), NomadBSD (Free, Open Source) and GhostBSD (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Nov 8, 2021
    1. FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures.
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    2. The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. * OpenBSD runs on many different hardware platforms.
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    4. MINIX is a POSIX-compliant Unix-like operating system based on a tiny microkernel running in kernel mode with the rest of the operating system running as a number of isolated, protected, processes in user mode.

    5. NomadBSD

      • Free • Open Source
      • BSD
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        NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD.
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      • GhostBSD is a user friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD , which attempts to conform to the Single Unix Specification.
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      • DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating systems as other BSD-derived systems and Linux. It is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs and shares ancestor code with other BSD operating systems.
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      • CRUX is a lightweight GNU/Linux distribution for the x86-64 architecture targeted at experienced users. The primary focus of this distribution is keep it simple, which is reflected in a straightforward tar.
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      • FuryBSD

        • Free • Open Source
        • BSD
        • FreeBSD
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          FuryBSD is a brand new, open source FreeBSD desktop. FuryBSD pays homage to desktop BSD projects of the past like PC-BSD and TrueOS with its graphical interface and adds additional tools like a live, hybrid USB / DVD image.

          Discontinued

          From FuryBSD official website (https://www.furybsd.org/): "Thank you for your interest in FuryBSD. This project has been discontinued. Plans to publish Q4 2020 images have been cancelled."

          And their official GitHub repo (https://github.com/furybsd) GitHub repository has been flagged as "archived".

        • Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, BlackBerry QNX has provided foundational software for many of the world’s mission-critical embedded systems since 1982.
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        • MidnightBSD is a new BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.
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