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NetBSD Q3/Q4 Status Report Published

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the for-all-those-of-you-waiting-with-baited-breath dept.

Anonymous Reader writes "The NetBSD Foundation published its first quarterly status report in 2006, covering the months July though December of 2005. Among many other things, this status report includes the release of both NetBSD 2.1 and NetBSD 3.0, a summary of the NetBSD Project's participation in Google's Summer of Code and the release of two stable pkgsrc branches."

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  1. Re:Difference Net, Open, and Free BSD = ? by Ulrich+Hobelmann · · Score: 4, Informative

    In 10 words? Sorry, no.

    FreeBSD and its fork Dragonfly focus mainly on high-performance production servers, a little like Linux.

    OpenBSD focuses on the best-ever security on earth. This also includes clean code and good documentation (though even FreeBSD is quite good, IMHO compared to Linux/GNU).

    NetBSD focuses on exceptionally clean code/architecture, excellent documentation, but also on interesting features, and of course awesome portability. This includes having very clearly-written, modular drivers, where other systems sometimes only have drivers for, say, a specific device when it's behind a specific bus, but not in general...

    I like NetBSD, because it's fast enough IMHO, and very clean and well documented. If you want maximum performance, and maybe more multimedia drivers, get FreeBSD; if you're paranoid, use OpenBSD.