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The NetBSD Organization

Posted by Hemos on from the how-to-become-part-of-it-all dept.

A reader writes: "Stumbled across a nice article about how the NetBSD Project is organized and some interesting ways users can help out." Good stuff, for those who want to get involved.

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  1. Re:The great divide: by DaBj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or as my friend whom I introduced to BSD put it
    when looking into using Linux on his desktop:
    "GNU's not Unix....it's Linux"

    (I can hear RMS getting his panties in a twist already)

    --
    "GNU's not Unix....it's Linux" / Kami "kokamomi" Petersen
  2. Re:The great divide: by rutledjw · · Score: 5, Funny
    There are other differences as well:

    • SMP Support, FreeBSD is the ONLY one who has it
    • Commercial vendor support. Oracle, IBM, Sun, etc support Linux. BSD support is IMPROVING, but not near the support Linux recieves.
    • Let's face it, Linux IS easier. I use Slackware and so I'm in the configs (as opposed to wizards), but Linux still is easier for me. Do I just need to get off my @ss and learn BSD? Probably
    • Better java support in Linux. I know the "j" word is dirty around here. Even so...
    • This is going to sound TOTALLY dumb - Commercial vendor support. If my company can't buy support, the world will certianly end due to lack of it. Whatever...
    That being said, I'm proposing FreeBSD for our web servers as a replacement for (are you ready for this?) Apache on Windows. The fall back is actually Linux/Apache, but I think from a security standpoint, BSD is probably the way to go.

    It DOES mildly annoy me to see the original parent post. BSD folks seem usually mild-mannered towards others. But every now and then some jackass...

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    Computer Science is Applied Philosophy