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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. From the article by __past__ · · Score: 5, Insightful
    For example, if a kernel developer makes a change that affects a utility then they normally just go ahead and make the change to the utility as well.
    This innocent little sentence sums up one of the most important reasons to prefer BSD over GNU/Linux (or make that RedHat/GNU/Linux, SuSE/GNU/Linux...). It is really nice to have a coordinated group responsible for a complete, working system, instead of a distributor that merely duct-tapes together unrelated, each on their own incomplete, parts.
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  2. Why so many negative comments? by core+plexus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I help out on some sites, and they all use Apache and freeBSD, and I've never had a problem. I believe it makes it less expensive for people to host on non-Microsoft servers, and having and open mind is important to keeping open software. If a fraction of the users of Microsoft and other commercial software spent a fraction of their time and effort (instead of downloading pr0n) to projects...well, who knows what could happen. A movement, perhaps?