It's using pkgsrc, which is excellent source-based package management (I prefer it over FreeBSD ports myself; it feels less brittle). The biggest changes over

It's using pkgsrc, which is excellent source-based package management (I prefer it over FreeBSD ports myself; it feels less brittle). The biggest changes over NetBSD for this NetBSD-derived OS are using git for source control (versus CVS of NetBSD), and by default turning on options like disk encryption. I had a brief discussion with the principle driver of this, and it sounds to me like this is all based in technical pursuits, and not (as mentioned above), hosted in Germany and enabling encryption as an NSA reaction, or anything like that.