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NetBSD 2.0 Released
Quique writes "NetBSD 2.0 is the tenth major release of the NetBSD Operating System, and has just been released. It can be downloaded from one of the mirror sites.
NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports fifty four different system architectures, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more.
NetBSD 2.0 continues the long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, major security enhancements, and support for many new platforms and peripherals." The release announcement is also available.
NetBSD is often used in porting software and OSes to other processors, due to the wide range it runs on.
:p, whatever floats your boat. Hell, you could even use Windows 2003 Server if you've got a few thousand burnig a hole in your pocket and the server isn't too important :D
As a result of the massively postable code though, it has a footprint relatively smaller than most ofther OSes, and tends to be quite fast.
For servers, I'd stick with FreeBSD, and for ultra secure servers, OpenBSD...
Or Linux
The addition of a native threads implementation for all platforms and symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) on i386 and other popular platforms were long-standing goals for NetBSD 2.0. Both of these goals have now been met--SMP support has been added for i386, SPARC, and PowerPC, and the SMP support on Alpha and VAX has been improved.
RTFA?
What were the skies like when you were young?
No hits for OMAP or PXA families which are well supported by Linux
Both the TI OMAP and the Intel PXA are ARM-architecture. The OMAP is pretty much a standard ARM-9, and the PXA is specifically mentioned on the evbarm page.
NetBSD is _the_ most underrated free OS project.
Do not be distracted by the fact that it can run on most every architecture. This is only a side effect of an uncompromisingly elegant design and clean implementation.
NetBSD is quite performant on modern hardware. It keeps pace with other operating systems in most areas, and exceeds in others. Remember, NetBSD was probably the first 64-bit clean open source operating system. It had USB support before Linux. It had IPv6 before... well... anybody.
NetBSD makes a great all around OS. NetBSD tends to be willing to break with tradition where others aren't. Proof is in things like its re-engineering of the BSD init system. It's so simply correct, that I can barely remember the traditional BSD inits. Hence, FreeBSD (and OpenBSD?) have adopted it.
So, run. Don't walk. Download, install, and enjoy.
-Peter
P.S. NetBSD's pkgsrc is only thing that comes close to a truly cross platform package management/build system. It supports Irix, Solaris, NetBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, OS X, and (to a lesser degree) AIX. I'm sure I'm leaving out a few.
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Here's a direct link to the torrent for the x86 Binary ISO.
Proof of performance (Coralized for politeness) http://bulk.fefe.de.nyud.net:8090/scalability/
The benchmarks on this page are a year old, but still show a very interesting picture of network socket performance.
The benchmarks are a year old, the system used is even older. Anyway, what's your point? They didn't bother with scalability until recently. You'd be amazed at what NetBSD 2.0 can do. Go try it yourself. Condemning an OS based on not being scalable at one point in time is just stupid. Linux wasn't scalable until 2.6, have you condemned that too? "Look at these benchmarks from 2 years ago - it shows a very interesting picture of Linux sucking".
On a related note, it isn't just NETWORK socket performance, since you can use sockets over loopback too. In NetBSD, being so supportive of systems which need as much space as possible, can even compile a replacement pipe mechanism which uses sockets to be smaller but slightly slower.
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You can print the NetBSD handbook yourself :)
There are many similarities between FreeBSD and NetBSD thanks to their mutual heritage, but FreeBSD's documentation doesn't usually apply equally to NetBSD. The differences are well covered in NetBSD's own online documentation, though.
I had been using FreeBSD since 4.8 or so, and was able to pick up NetBSD almost instantly. Only one thing held me back (for weeks even), and that was my use of CFLAGS= instead of CFLAGS+= in mk.conf, which made world builds break. Entirely my fault, but could use a warning in documentation. But the basic idea is, if you're willing to read a couple of items of documentation and ask questions, it's very easy to learn.
Sam ty sig.