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NetBSD 2.0RC2 Released

Posted by timothy on from the will-assimilate-you dept.

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."

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  1. NetBSD portability vs Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?