Download NetBSD 10.0

NetBSD is a Unix-like operating system that has its origins in the 386BSD 0.1 branch. The first version, NetBSD 0.8, was released on April 21, 1993 and has continued to evolve since then. Of the well-known BSD variants FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, the latter can be run on most platforms. The developers have released NetBSD 10.0 and the release notes are available this page are being found. At Phoronix they had the following about this release report:

NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance

After being in development since 2019, the huge NetBSD 10.0 is out today as a wonderful Easter surprise. NetBSD 10 provides WireGuard support, support for many newer Arm platforms including for Apple Silicon and newer Raspberry Pi boards, a new Intel Ethernet drive, support for Realtek 2.5GbE network adapters, SMP performance improvements, automatic swap encryption, and an enormous amount of other hardware support improvements that accumulated over the past 4+ years.

Plus there is no shortage of bug fixes and performance optimizations with NetBSD 10. Some tests of NetBSD 10.0 in development back during 2020 showed at that point it was already 12% faster than NetBSD 9. NetBSD 10.0 also has improved scheduler performance for hybrid systems, various system call optimizations, faster boot performance, enhanced virtualization support, and more. NetBSD 10.0 is an outright massive update for this BSD operating system.