From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 19 12:02:47 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 1C8751065713 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:02:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michal@sharescope.co.uk) Received: from mail1.sharescope.co.uk (pm1.ionic.co.uk [85.159.80.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2288FC25 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:02:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michal@sharescope.co.uk) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.sharescope.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7418BFC0DB; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:02:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sharescope.co.uk Received: from mail1.sharescope.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.sharescope.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JOWhzqwZPEW2; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:02:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from ChrisVista (office.ionic.co.uk [85.159.85.2]) (Authenticated sender: michal@sharescope.co.uk) by mail1.sharescope.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 02B35FC00A; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:02:41 +0100 (BST) From: "Michal" To: , , References: <735E59909DEB44AF92825EA7C65CF430@ionicoffice.ionic.co.uk> <00265389C30B444288C246DF37651D0C249024DD1B@server-02.playsafesa.com> <6101e8c40906190408h5b6a4496td12e2b9e4872459e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:02:40 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Acnw05jay8Eps72CQAWleGkQJh6quwAAhgDA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6001.18049 Cc: 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 12:02:49 -0000 It wasn't an argument or a versus anything. It was just a question relating to what he had said and the truth in it and the two OS's being used for different reasons. That's all. No rage, no debate or looking for any winner! -----Original Message----- From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of demuel@thephinix.org Sent: 19 June 2009 12:42 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Open Vs Free BSD Oh why can't this versus this versus that never dies? There had been raging debate about which OSes is much better compared to the others since time immemorial. Sure, each one has its own merits over the others and vice versa. So why feeding this issue up since up to this very moment, there is no winner. > 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"