From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 19 11:29:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55789106568F for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:29:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver.pntr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D898FC32 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:29:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver.pntr@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so154981bwz.43 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:29:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=11M/p3QTSeTeW7BHFIgbV/GSVf2W7xAcIetIrRujsIg=; b=XFnpjQum+b2MufZmC77pgRPiX4aioapbCPrTDfe9Ny8d17yrx2SM/neoLgAmOoLZJH +IlHTULI5b6kwmvDckqAlD+cKtM8N+Z0VUngg/Prr2khsE9mkdCUC+JXbDl8KBZreJSW hTFRdKje6LxCG7hUQA+Rh9R6s9qbrywqRG1Ps= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gMozuyGC+vHdzUL405vBXley0cX1hVmrFBrXoNRyFqLf0BHN6420Yz9S+u3QfSEmxM 7SOQxVKLdo0FAG3ojY2VfbXjwrqvV03PTeOwe5bZy1+lZ2sS3+Xrhh4Zi9/SQv6jvopx j5KSBg7cD8Sl+MUICdLiJXnSz3bbfUYXmd4po= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.198.20 with SMTP id a20mr1703746muq.63.1245409702771; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:08:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <735E59909DEB44AF92825EA7C65CF430@ionicoffice.ionic.co.uk> <00265389C30B444288C246DF37651D0C249024DD1B@server-02.playsafesa.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:08:22 +0200 Message-ID: <6101e8c40906190408h5b6a4496td12e2b9e4872459e@mail.gmail.com> From: Oliver Pinter To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Open Vs Free BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:29:50 -0000 and the security is in netbsd: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?security+8+NetBSD-5.0 http://www.netbsd.org/~elad/recent/recent06.pdf On 6/19/09, Ivan Voras wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >