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Comparing and Contrasting BSD/OS and NetBSD
LiquidPC writes: ""Even though BSD/OS and NetBSD operating systems have been mostly developed by different developers with some different goals over the past nine years, they share many similarities due to their near identitical open source origins and the open source software that complements the systems" Read the article comparing and contrasting NetBSD and BSD/OS at BSDNewsLetter.com."
BSD/OS is not OpenBSD.
BSD/OS is the commercial version of BSD, whereas Net|Open|FreeBSD are open source version of BSD.
NetBSD 1.5.3 is starting to apear on the ftp site. YEAH! There is a i386 port as well as several others...
Only 'flamers' flame!
This is a remarkably content free article. For those who want the Cliff's Notes version:
* BSD/OS has a commercial license.
* Some of the binaries in BSD/OS are slightly
smaller.
* The setup scripts are arranged a little differently.
* BSD/OS has more stuff by default, and it might take as much as ten minutes in the package tree to bring NetBSD up to par.
Er, that's about it.
I'd be more interested in a comparison of the three free BSD operating systems; I've been running NetBSD and OpenBSD for a couple of years now, but I've never installed FreeBSD. I've heard it's got something of a Linuxy bloat rather than the grim austerity of the Open and Net OSes... any comments from users? Might as well put _something_ useful in this wasted comments section.
--saint
It's the same source code anyway. If we work together, maybe we can postpone its death for a little longer. Oh, too late.
It's official: BSD is dead.
This would have been a lot more interesting if they compared the kernels instead of userland.. all unixes can have the same userland. blah.
I just heard the sad news on talk radio. Troubled OS netBSD was found dead in it's downtown office. Initial reports place blame on a wasabi overdose. There were no more details. Truly a loss for the OS dabbler-dilletante troll hobbyist community. I miss it already:-(
That is inaccurate. BSD/OS has high quality SMP support. BSD/OS has commercial software packages released for it. BSD/OS is a production ready server product, engineered for use as a server operating system on real servers. Get that? NetBSD is not. NetBSD is an ongoing, somewhat clever, hack that runs everywhere. but it's not what you want running your mission critical apps. BSD/OS, however, is.
Berkely, Software and Distribution
Has anybody here seen my old friend Berkeley?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people but it seems the good die young
I just looked around and he's gone.
Has anybody here seen my old friend Software?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people but it seems the good die young
I just looked around and he's gone.
Has anybody here seen my old friend Distribution?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people but it seems the good die young
I just looked around and he's gone.
Didn't you love the things they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good in you and me?
And we'll be free
Someday soon
It's gonna be one day
Has anybody here seen my old friend Linux?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walking up o'er the hill
With Berkeley, Software and Distribution
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying