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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. Cleanest? by chjones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just out of curiosity, who considers NetBSD to be the "cleanest" of the BSDs, and why? I'm not trolling, just wondering---I don't think I've ever heard that (specifically). CDJ

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    1. Re:Cleanest? by the+real+darkskye · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Aside from FreeBSD's install system, NetBSD is the easiest I've encountered.
      It is much more friendly (well less intimidating) than OpenBSD's although I do have reservations about it, such as it not storeing any options you set at install time, and not booting with RC_CONFIGURED=false by default to alert you to the fact you need to set options.

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    2. Re:Cleanest? by mnmn · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I've always considered OpenBSD to be the cleanest. It has resisted major change but has been code-audited much more than NetBSD.

      I dont know about portability but OpenBSD was forked from NetBSD, and has been changed less since and audited more.

      But if you mean 'original' by clean, the earlier versions of either would be cleaner.

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  2. Cleanest OS by uid100 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe that the term "cleanest" is in reference to one of NetBSD's principle goals of creating truly portable code. Code which compiles and runs on as many different arch as possible with a minimum of #ifdef and such.

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