Open Vs Free BSD

[Cem Kayali]

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
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> 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:
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>> * 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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