Why should I choose NetBSD over FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux?
Although NetBSD runs on like 27 more archs than you probably
have, it still offers you:
- State of the art device drivers (shall I say soundcard?
Oh, and just in case you need features like serial console
or a netboot.
- Latest network technologies (first OS to integrate IPv6,
IEEE 802.11 wireless networking)
- First OS to support USB! Support includes mice, keyboards, modem,
mass storage devices (USB ZIP!)
- DVD ROM support
- Working LFS and FFS with softdep support for fast, high performance
filesystems
- Installation from floppy, CD, disk, tape, NFS, FTP
- One (1) source tree for all architectures,
including X, networking, device drivers
- Least number of security bugs reported in any public forums
like bugtraq (Security without a hype)
- Runs your Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, SCO-binaries
just fine.
- First free OS to make a y2k statement (in case you need it)
- Swap/page over NFS, and unlimited size of swap file/partition.
- Kernel debugging on the local machine, remote, or post mortem.
- Full source available (even the RCS files, in case you want
your own CVS repository)
- ... and OF COURSE it runs all the essentials like KDE, GNOME, Netscape,
Quake, apache, perl, samba, StarOffice, GIMP, etc.
Probably the only thing you won't get with NetBSD is the media hype.
You'll need to get that somewhere else.
Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@netbsd.org>, 19991211
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