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Where Does NetBSD Fit In?

NetBSD Fan writes "KernelTrap offers a fascinating summary of the recent 2004 Annual NetBSD Group Meeting. Included is an introduction by NetBSD foundation president Christos Zoulas discussing NetBSD's relevance in light of competition from well known operating systems such as Linux and Windows which he acknowledges 'both offer more features than we do, and they have behind them the resources of very large commercial organizations.' He also talks about FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Darwin, ultimately concluding that they all are facing their own serious challenges, and that plenty of opportunities remain for NetBSD. The NetBSD project recently released NetBSD 2.0."

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  1. Read the WHOLE article. by IO+ERROR · · Score: 0, Troll
    NetBSD isn't as feature rich as more modern kernels such as Linux, or even Free/OpenBSD. Its IP stack is way out of date; its filesystem is way out of date; its kernel is way out of date; even its hardware support is out of date, and that's a serious problem for an operating system that wants to support every piece of hardware known to man. It's not easy to get security updates; releases don't come out often enough; and there aren't enough developers. This all I got out of the article...

    On the other hand, it's solid and stable, and they have FreeBSD and OpenBSD to swipe code from.

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  2. A Couple (few/some) Reasons that BSD RULES by Raisputin · · Score: 1, Troll
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