Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:57:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet@yahoo.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool Message-ID: <87y6in4tws.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <242758.48200.qm@web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri's message of "Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:20 -0800 (PST)") References: <b10011eb1002180039h290fc5c8q48f85bad8eb114b9@mail.gmail.com> <87vdduespd.fsf@kobe.laptop> <242758.48200.qm@web111302.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:20 -0800 (PST), Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet@yahoo.ca> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >> NetBSD needs a *very* minimal set of POSIX tools to build, e.g. you can >> get away with an sh(1) utility and a pretty basic make(1) tool. They >> have really done a magnificent job at constructing a build system that >> can bootstrap itself from a tiny set of build tools. >> >> FreeBSD also has _some_ of the necessary build glue to do similar sort >> of stuff, but AFAIK we only support cross-building from one FreeBSD >> architecture to another FreeBSD architecture. So you need to have at >> least *some* version of FreeBSD to build another. > > 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 NetBSD 5.0 is indeed a major step forward for NetBSD. This presentation was what convinced me to give NetBSD a try back when 5.0 came out. I have been running it at home for a while now. The only systems I have at home right now are FreeBSD and NetBSD. There are both nice systems; I like both of them and it's very nice to see how BSD is definitely *not* dying by using the various BSDs and seeing how they keep moving forward :-)
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