Love NetBSD, especially for embedded work. Cross-compile support is core to the project, and that makes life much nicer.
On the personal project side, I'm currently running NetBSD/cobalt 9.3 on a Cobalt Qube2 microserver, which is an old MIPS server appliance. It lives here:
Mostly it hosts my persistent IRC sessions, and provides a few network resources to some of the old computers in the shop. It requires very little maintenance, pretty much just does what it's supposed to.
Wow, I had couple of those cobalt qube servers running in my room about a decade ago, when I got them really cheap from ebay. I just loved the form factor (being a cube), as it was so unique for a server. It's awesome to hear that these machines are still being actively used.
Yup! I picked up my first one probably 16-17 years ago, also when they were still cheapish on eBay. I don't think the one I'm currently running is my first one, I have two and a parts unit now.
I also ran their RaQ series as custom Linux router/firewall boxes for a long time. Still have two CacheRaQ 1s, which were designed to be caching web proxies and have dual Ethernet ports. I think they came out of production 5 or 6 years ago, ran fine with Debian mipsel until the customer upgraded their Internet connection and exceeded the little 150 MHz CPU's capacity!
On the personal project side, I'm currently running NetBSD/cobalt 9.3 on a Cobalt Qube2 microserver, which is an old MIPS server appliance. It lives here:
http://qube2.glitchworks.net/
Mostly it hosts my persistent IRC sessions, and provides a few network resources to some of the old computers in the shop. It requires very little maintenance, pretty much just does what it's supposed to.