Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:58:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: francisco@natserv.com, Laurence Berland <karlmarx@howlongcanadomainnameb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD Message-ID: <19980921135839.P8807@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199809192324.TAA10064@federation.addy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 07:24:50PM -0000 References: <360429E1.C328BC1F@howlongcanadomainnameb.com> <199809192324.TAA10064@federation.addy.com>
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On Saturday, 19 September 1998 at 19:24:50 -0000, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > On 19-Sep-98 Laurence Berland wrote: >> I saw a system running NetBSD, what is this and how is it different from >> freeBSD? > > What it is, is best described at www.netbsd.org > Basically it is another Unix, just as Linux is another Unix. Well, that's not the way I would put it. NetBSD is (just) another UNIX, just as OpenBSD is (just) another UNIX. Linux is a UNIX clone. > The general comments I have read are that OpenBSD is the most secure, > NetBSD is the most portable and FreeBSD is the best performer. I suppose that's a reasonable first approximation. I have another one. At the AUUG conference last week, I was told that the typical FreeBSD developer is a professional programmer in the commercial sector, the typical NetBSD developer is a professional programmer in research and Government, and the typical OpenBSD or Linux developer is either a student or a hobbyist. This is a broad generalization, of course, and at the moment I'm observing to decide how accurate it is. It was certainly surprising to note that at the conference the Linux people weren't well known to the organizers, whereas the *BSD people were, and that there were approximately equal numbers of Linux and *BSD users present. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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