Open Vs Free BSD

Oliver Pinter oliver.pntr at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 11:29:50 UTC 2009


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 <ivoras at 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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