NetBSD's target users 2.5. Applications for NetBSD 2.6. The philosophy of NetBSD 2.7. How to get NetBSD NetBSD is a free, highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for many platforms, from 64bit alpha servers to handheld devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source.
Many applications are easily available.
NetBSD features NetBSD operates on a vast range of hardware platforms and is very portable, probably the most portable operating system in the world. The aforementioned characteristics bring also indirect advantages. For example, if you work on just one platform you could think that you're not interested in portability. And code quality is the base of any good and solid software systems, though surprisingly few people seem to understand it. The attention to architectural and quality issues is rewarded with the great potentiality of NetBSD's code and the quality of it's drivers.