NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

[Masoom Shaikh]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Mark Shroyer
<subscriber+freebsd at markshroyer.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/18/2010 10:32 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> > How about these bench vs FreeBSD?!
> >
> > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html
> >
> > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html
> >
> > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img15.html
>
> If those numbers are characteristic of the operating system's overall
> performance, then that's a really impressive leap forward for NetBSD.
>
> That said, I use FreeBSD mainly on small, individual servers; as we all
> know, there's a lot more that goes into selecting a server OS than raw
> performance numbers.  Stability, security features (like the ability to
> run Apache jailed with whatever random, potentially insecure CGI or PHP
> applications one must install), and ease of software installation and
> maintenance are important too, and for me FreeBSD excels at these things.
>
> But between these massive performance improvements, and its mature Xen
> compatibility, and the fact that they evicted Sendmail from the base
> system in favor of Postfix, NetBSD really has my attention.  (In fact
> I'm setting up a VM right now so I can get a feel for how NetBSD +
> pkgsrc handles as a server.)  Now if only it had jails...
>
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bullets on this slide are particluarly interesting
http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img6.html
20 secs from boot loader to GDM prompt
4th bullet is quite not clear what "Unified kernel image for x86" means