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Who runs NetBSD, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open-source operating system alternatives.

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Closest alternative
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs NetBSD

NetBSD netbsd.org

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What NetBSD tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 5 have more.

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We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on NetBSD’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to NetBSD

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to NetBSD, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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  1. 01
    OpenBSD openbsd.org English No trackers

    OpenBSD

    the main OpenBSD page

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  2. 02
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

    Compare FreeBSD with NetBSD →
  3. 03
    Debian debian.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Debian -- The Universal Operating System

    Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.

    Compare Debian with NetBSD →
  4. 04
    GNU gnu.org Top 1K English No trackers

    The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement

    Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.

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  5. 05
    Gentoo Linux gentoo.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Welcome – Gentoo Linux

    The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.

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  6. 06
    tizen.org Top 10K No trackers
    Compare tizen.org with NetBSD →
  7. 07
    OpenStack openstack.org English No trackers

    Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack

    Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.

    Compare OpenStack with NetBSD →
  8. 08
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

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  9. 09
    xfce.org English No trackers

    Xfce Desktop Environment

    Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

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  10. 10
    GNOME gnome.org Top 10K

    desktop environment and graphical user interface

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  11. 11
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

    Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

    Compare Joomla with NetBSD →
  12. 12
    centos.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The CentOS Project

    Linux distribution

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  13. 13
    AlmaLinux almalinux.org English 1 tracker

    AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System

    An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution.

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  14. 14
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

    Compare MariaDB with NetBSD →
  15. 15
    KDE kde.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Home - KDE Community

    KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.

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  16. 16

    open-source desktop environment software project

    Compare freedesktop.org with NetBSD →
  17. 17
    NTPsec ntpsec.org English No trackers

    Welcome to NTPsec

    implementation of Network Time Protocol

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  18. 18
    TYPO3 typo3.org English 1 tracker

    TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project

    The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.

    Compare TYPO3 with NetBSD →
  19. 19
    BeagleBoard beagleboard.org English No trackers

    BeagleBoard - open hardware computers for makers, educators and professionals

    Built on the proven BeagleBoard.org® open source Linux approach, BeagleBone® AI fills the gap between small SBCs and more powerful industrial computers.

    Compare BeagleBoard with NetBSD →
  20. 20
    I2P geti2p.net English No trackers

    I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN

    I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.

    Compare I2P with NetBSD →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles NetBSD’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones NetBSD uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what NetBSD adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
30 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to NetBSD’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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