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NetBSD: the portable, lightweight, and robust UNIX-like operating system (www.osnews.com)
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[โ€“] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Even though it's not as popular as the other options, parts of NetBSD are used for many usecases. Take a look at

https://netbsd.org/gallery/products.html

and you'll see many familiar names.

[โ€“] Mettled@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

I question the claim about Apple Darwin using NetBSD since Mac is based on a 10+ year very old version of FreeBSD, and Playsttion 4 and 5 uses FreeBSD. Sony aubmits code to FreeBSD to get it supported for Playstation.