Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:21:38 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Open Vs Free BSD Message-ID: <h1forf$3lr$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <00265389C30B444288C246DF37651D0C249024DD1B@server-02.playsafesa.com> References: <735E59909DEB44AF92825EA7C65CF430@ionicoffice.ionic.co.uk> <00265389C30B444288C246DF37651D0C249024DD1B@server-02.playsafesa.com>
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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.
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