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DragonFly BSD vs NetBSD: catalog facts
DragonFly BSD	NetBSD
Free Free to download and use; the project accepts donations.	Free Free and open source, with donations accepted.
Command line	Command line
HAMMER2 filesystem developed by the project NVMM hypervisor support and an amdgpu driver in 6.4	Runs on a very wide range of CPU architectures and machines Signed hashes published for release media
DPorts lags behind the current FreeBSD ports branch Smaller user base and hardware support than mainstream systems	Less desktop-oriented out of the box than consumer operating systems Smaller software and driver ecosystem than Linux
Operating system	Operating system
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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