It's the fashion these days — in November 2026 anyway. I'm kicking the tires on NetBSD 11.

FreeLinX is an independent Linux distribution built around the Linux kernel, a NetBSD-derived userland, the musl C library, and the LLVM toolchain.

• https://github.com/FreeLinX/FreeLinX

racoon2 is a system to exchange and install security parameters for IPsec. It consists of an IKEv1/IKEv2 key exchange daemon, a security policy management daemon, and a Kerberos-based key exchange daemon. The project lives at zoulasc/racoon2 and is being modernized so that it can serve as a reliable L2TP/IPsec or IKEv2 VPN server on NetBSD and Linux for built-in Windows, iOS and Android VPN clients.

I’ve been backing up my home directories on my NetBSD machines to my FreeBSD backup server using rsync(1). But I’ve been experimenting with using ZFS for /home on NetBSD, so I thought it made sense to use zfs send for backups to the FreeBSD machine instead.