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Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-to-know dept.

Gentu writes "The main commercial company behind NetBSD is Wasabi Systems. The company has contributed advances and big chunks of code to the open source project, while they do offer a boxed release of NetBSD. However, their main business for the company is the embedded market and NetBSD is marketed as an embedded OS. OSNews talked to the Vice President of Wasabi Systems, Jay Michaelson. Linux in the embedded market is also discussed."

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  1. Re:Well? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Up until recently, none of the BSDs supported SMP or any advanced feature of Linux. FreeBSD does have decent support for SMP now, but none of the other BSDs do. Apparently, BSD is for the little workstations, and Linux is for the big iron that actually serves content.

    I hear FreeBSD actually managed to port to another architecture, too. Good for them. Maybe now they can port to an architecture that's not dead (RIP DEC and RIP Alpha... sigh).

    BSD is good for single processor machines that don't need to be doing much but running KDE or Mozilla. Don't expect them to support NUMA, hotswap PCI, big iron, or commercial apps like Oracle any time soon.

    I hope that BSD can catch up to Linux sometime soon, though. It looks like an interesting little project.