I have used NetBSD several years on mainly amd64 platform, and these are
+ properties.
- Xen support and boot NetBSD as dom0 and a Linux ie; Ubuntu as domU.
- Clean design of rc.d scripts. Also NetBSD does not automatically
populate rc.d scripts, user adds sample one (displayed after installing
pkgsrc software).
- Veriexec support. What is veriexec => It is set of hashes that kernel
checks before deleting or running a (binary) file according to veriexec
settings.
- Clean documentation of CGD. Any noob user can easily configure
cryptographic disk.
- More stable pkgsrc softwares with respect to FreeBSD.
- 32 bit and 64 bit linux emulation in amd64 port. It works almost
perfectly.
- More friendly mailing lists -- NetBSD people are patient somehow ;)
Just someone should decide which specifications is more important for
him/her.
Hint:
- No blob driver.
- More and more security, hardly checked codes, fixed bugs (which leads
to possible future holes, and later to hear 'it was fixed in OpenBSD 6
months ago')
The answer is OpenBSD.
Regards,
Cem
Oliver Pinter, 06/19/09 14:08:
and the security is in netbsd:
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?security+8+NetBSD-5.0
http://www.netbsd.org/~elad/recent/recent06.pdf
On 6/19/09, Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote:
Kim Attree wrote:
NetBSD runs on just about anything. That's it's primary goal. Since I
don't
have any weird hardware, I've never had a use for NetBSD.
I don't use NetBSD either but some recent development that come from
that camp are very interesting:
* Journalling UFS ("smart" journalling, not gjournal)
* PUFFS (BSD implementation of FUSE-like system [file system in userland])
* They had Xen dom0 and domU for years
* They are starting to show decent results in SMP support, including a
new scheduler (a bit similar to ULE); their GENERIC has SMP included
* Possibly superpages, I'm not sure how to parse "Merged amd64 and i386
pmap. Large pages are always used if available"
* I think they are working on their own ZFS port
* They have ported or reimplemented Linux LVM (read+write+admin)
There are of course other things; see for example
http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.0.html
I have a feeling the project has been revitalized in the last few years.
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