Open Vs Free BSD

[Ivan Voras]

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.