Speaking of NetBSD, the fifth and final 9x release has been released.

It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 9.4 in April 2024. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 9.0.

This also marks the end-of-support for all NetBSD-9.x releases and the netbsd-9 branch. All users still on this branch are urgently asked to update to a more recent release like NetBSD 11.0 (with 11.1 upcoming at the end of this month) or NetBSD 10.2 (to be released in a few days).

↫ Martin Husemann at the NetBSD blog

The full release notes have more information.

Why use an installer to install an operating system, when you can just do it yourself, step by step?

In this post I will cover the installation process of the NetBSD operating system, including disk level encryption. Instead of using the standard installation program (sysinst), I decided to install NetBSD “from scratch”, as a way to dive into the internals, and learn more about the nuts and bolts of this great operating system.

↫ Luis Falcon

A fun weekend project for next weekend.