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NetBSD 2.0RC2 Released
An anonymous reader writes "NetBSD 2.0 RC2 has been released. Get it using sup or ftp from one of the mirror sites. NetBSD is used to routinely set transmission-speed records, and is widely considered to be the cleanest of the BSDs. NetBSD is widely portable."
Why is it that NetBSD users always try to criticise OpenBSD users? The reverse doesn't seem to be true...
Different priorities for different projects. You could also say that OpenBSD has a low priority for desktop 'users' (as opposed to developers) with the stress on absolute security being the over-riding factor, everything else gets added in later. NetBSD works toward a clean implementation and portability of the code across many different platforms, everything else comes second. Not to say that NetBSD doesn't care about security, just that its not the number one driving factor, and that still sounds bad. On the other hand, Linux, as part of the fact that the parts that make a complete OS are created by different people for each part, seems to aim at whatever the most vocal of the parts wish it to do, and thats be a Microsoft killer, hence the appearance to attempt to gear it more to a desktop user.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
it is less portable than Linux.
It depends of what you are talking. Linux is just the kernel, NetBSD is a compete OS. You have to pick up a Linux distro and compare its portability to NetNSD.
NetBSD builds for more than 50 architectures from the same source tree, fully supporting cross-building of the entire system (it's as simple as running a shell script).
It has the same distribution layout for all the supported architectures, and the same installation system for most of them. It has machine independant drivers (write once, run everwhere), including for things such as the system console.
NetBSD also has a cross-platform package system (in fact it's even cross-OS, as it works also for other systems) that automates rebuilding from source. The vast majority of the packages are therefore available to all NetBSD architectures.
Now can you name a Linux distribution that can compete?
"widely" is a codeword for "i can't prove it, but it sounds good." see also: "everybody else thinks so, what's wrong with you?"