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NetBSD Project Calls for Donations

Posted by Hemos on from the gimme-yer-money dept.

A reader writes:"Thor Lancelot Simon from the NetBSD project recently made a post to the netbsd-advocacy mailing list, outlining the project's desperate need for monetary donations from its users and supporters to help improve NetBSD for everyone. Please read Thor's post here and think seriously about helping out this excellent open source project. Even the smallest donation counts, if enough people pitch in."

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  1. Re:An excellent BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'll second that. I think it's unfortunate that when people are summing up the BSD's, they often go for the age-old "Free for performance, Open for security, Net for putting on a toaster". This gives people the impression that NetBSD is only worth checking out if you want to run it on bizarre or outdated hardware, and consequently it never seems to get considered as an OS in its own right. I urge those with the time and interest to at least check it out. Even on run of the mill x86 systems that will run any other OS, NetBSD provides a clean, minimalist, reliable Unix that's a pleasure to use. Just because it doesn't have a whole lot of hype doesn't mean there's not a lot to be excited about.