It's very easy to learn about doing some interesting things. http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/pseudo/ http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/pseudo/ there are ec2

It's very easy to learn about doing some interesting things. http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/pseudo/ http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/pseudo/ there are ec2 images ready and working, it works as a xen dom0, there's a new firewall (npf) in development that's interesting, etc. For a time some kind of planetary alignment made it the fastest ruby platform according to a few benchmarks. build.sh makes it very very easy to cross-compile for arm/mips if you're building an rpi appliance (for example).