🚩 NetBSD Corner

The NetBSD side of the BSD house: portable, tidy and happy on hardware other systems forgot. Same tone as the rest of TechCommune: real commands, real output, a joke or two, and honest notes about what was and was not tested.

📚 The Pages

Click a picture to open the full guide and its video:

NetBSD vs Linux What is actually different pkgin and pkgsrc Software on NetBSD Services on NetBSD rc.d, rc.conf and your own daemon NPF firewall Rules, tables and logging Users and security useradd, wheel, securelevel Updating NetBSD Sets, etcupdate, postinstall

More pages are on the way. Got a NetBSD topic you would like tested here? Tell me.

How These Pages Work

• NetBSD 11.1. Every command and every piece of output comes from a real run in a virtual machine, so what you see is what you should see.
• Honest about gaps. Anything that was not run is marked "from the documentation, not run here".
• Safe by design. Install NetBSD in a virtual machine and break it as often as you like. It runs happily in a small one.

Where to Go Next

New to the command line altogether? Linux 101 teaches the shared basics. For everyday tools see Command Line Tips. The other BSDs live in the FreeBSD Corner, the OpenBSD Corner and the NetBSD Corner.