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What is the difference between NetBSD and ...
[some other operating system] - this is one of the questions I hear
a lot when going go roadshows, and which arises on #NetBSD every
now and then, too. While everyone technically savvy won't
ask the question, telling people about how an operating system -- usually
including their own favourite penguin-based brand as well as NetBSD --
are built up, is needed to make them understand. One thing that has
helped me doing so is a
poster from O'Reilly
which is entitled "Anatomy of a Linux System", but which really
applies to a much wider range. The linked PDF isn't exactly in
best quality, unfortunately - any volunteers to talk to O'Reilly
to make a new poster with s/Linux/Unix/ or even s/Linux/NetBSD/? :)
FWIW, I've made the most interesting part of the poster available
in a separate
image here (the text on the red marble in the middle is "kernel").
That image
and a lecture on portability should to for a first impression of the
difference (and similarities!) between NetBSD and some other operating
system.
[Tags: Advocacy, anatomy, netbsd]
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