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NetBSD 7.0 Released (netbsd.org)
An anonymous reader writes: After three years of development and over a year in release engineering, NetBSD 7.0 has been released. Its improvements include added support for many new ARM boards including the Raspberry Pi 2, major improvements to its multiprocessor-compatible firewall NPF, kernel scripting in Lua, kernel mode-setting for Intel and Radeon graphics chips, and a daemon called blacklistd(8) which integrates with numerous network daemons and shields them from flood attempts.
Choosing NetBSD over FreeBSD or OpenBSD is like being offered a free soda and asking for Shasta Cola over Coke or Pepsi.
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Nice analogy. Thanks for equating FreeBSD with Coke!
When I have a headless server/networking task to do, and don't want a side order of drama with my OS, NetBSD is my favorite way to just get it done.
Windows10 and iOS are really all that matter anymore. There will probably be less than a couple of thousand installs of this that will actually be doing anything useful, and a few thousand hobby installs that are mostly unused. What a waste of humanity and these people's lives that have been spent on this. You only live once, and you never know how long you are going to be alive, do something useful with your time. Just get an iPhone and take selfies at that cute little cupcake shop downtown. Enjoy nature or some artwork. Get a dog, or maybe even a girlfriend. You'll thank me.
WhytheHellareyounotusingtheproperredthemefortherarestoriesintheBSDsection?!!
best too against NSA
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
I had a PII with 512m RAM and after going through too many Linux distros and all their bloatware and obese desktops (what happened to the 'no desktop/server' installs?), I ended up with a *BSD (I forgot which). If you need a bare bones *NIX that just installs, *BSD is it. The only "bad" part was that everything had to be done by the command line and modifying init and other scripts (SAMBA, Apache, etc ...) all with a text editor and if you haven't done that since 1995, it's a bit daunting. And when the only text editor available - at least the one you can remember - is vi, oh dear!
Never the less, that old boat anchor felt like a young computer again! It hit on my 25 year old HP calculator!
Just kidding
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Me, not so much.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD
community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again,
now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on
the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD
has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what
we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as
fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com]in the recent Sys Admin
comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The
hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there
won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things
are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD
continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its
core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time
FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore
the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is
dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD.
How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD
versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore
there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are
about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700
users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the
*BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD
users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on,
FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell
another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to
yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market
share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very
dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante
dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at
this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Well, you know that old saying... *sigh*
Blacklistd looks like a great idea but I checked out the syntax in blacklistd.conf and I think it could use some work.
I could see lots of admins getting bitten by "nfail=*" meaning never. To me, that name or a '*' isn't the right choice. Security config files absolutely must be unambiguous to people aren't going to read the manual. Cron has a similar syntax and I've seen several cases were a simple change to a crontab resulted in a 5 star screwup that ran something 1440 times a day.
...that NetBSD offers? Not trying to troll here or start a war, but was genuinely interested. If I wanted a bullet proof firewall, I'd pick b/w OpenBSD and pFsense, and for a more generic OS, I'd go w/ FreeBSD, since I already run PC-BSD. Does NetBSD bring anything to the party? Particularly since both FreeBSD and OpenBSD support most of the CPUs that NetBSD supports (although FreeBSD has dropped Alpha & PA-RISC, while neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD support Itanic)
Congratulations to the NetBSD team, I installed 7.0 replacing 6.1 on my my B/U system without a hitch. So far all working very well.
Not likely, as the BSD family isn't just "unix-like", it IS unix. Providing a free unix is the entire goal of the BSD's. If they were to adopt systemd (which is windows-like, not unix-like), then the BSD's would lose their entire reason to exist.