NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818
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@passthejoe it can't be an AI-free OS as long as it continues to incorporate 3rd party software that isn't AI-free. e.g., NetBSD will have to drop ZFS support.
@minazukimidnight @passthejoe true but it's not their primary compiler/toolchain so they'll continue leaning on GCC. They might even give up on LLVM. We'll have to see how that shakes out.
@feld @minazukimidnight @passthejoe it will be funny if after bsd people pissed and moaned about gcc/gnu code quality for decades that they switch back to it because the bsd-licensed, better compiler is "slopped"
@feld @minazukimidnight @passthejoe is netbsd competitive these days, I used to use it years ago because it ran on m68k macs but I would never use it for a real server
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