NetBSD

[TheQuirk]

Has anyone ever used NetBSD? Is it worth trying?

[Gooseberry Clock]

Shouldn't this be in the Linux forum?

[TheQuirk]

crap.. I thought I Was in public forum >=[ could a moderator move this to the Linux/UNIX forum?

[TheQuirk]

yeah, it should. I thought I was in public forum =\

[Calum]

it's moved, trc has tried it, he sent me a copy, but i haven't used it and i haven't seen him posting for a while, so... anybody else?

[choasforages]

NetBSD will run on just about anything but from my usege of it, it is nothing close to userfreindly, but if you are looking for a very nice unix to play with NetBSD is great, it also installs with X-windows and someother stuff in a very small amount of space so it can be usefull in cramped conditions like 500 mb harddrives   :cool:  however it is not nearly as fast as linux is, atleast for running setiathome. as a last note it also requires the hand editing of several files to get things working, but i kinda like using it

[ravuya]

i like netbsd. it feels a lot more solid than linux does. linux kind of feels like a patchwork of a bunch of different guys who really didn't communicate -- netbsd and its ilk feel much more solid.

plus, it's "real" UNIX, so any skills you learn on it are transferable to commercial UNIXes like Solaris and HPUX, unlike Linux which has a different userland, among other things.

[TheQuirk]

Then I guess I'll try it!

Thanks.

[voidmain]

Well, working heavily with Solaris, BSD, Linux, AIX, SCO, HP-UX, and more I would say that what you learn in Linux will be at *least* as transferrable to the other OSs than what BSD will teach you. Solaris uses System V init, like Linux.  BSD uses BSD init, like AIX (actually that should have been "AIX uses BSD init like BSD"). Either way you go (I suggest go both ways) your skills will cross the other platforms. In fact Linux and BSD use many of the same software packages so....

[ June 10, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[voidmain]

On the "ftp.exe" thing from above it was on my Win95 partition.  I just looked on my Win2k partition and guess how many TCP/IP related files came from BSD?

In C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32:
finger.exe
ftp.exe
nslookup.exe
rcp.exe
rsh.exe

Now, these are just the files they were nice enough to leave the Copyright notices in (non-compressed executables).  Who knows how much more code is in them.  To see the copyright notices in these files change into the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory and do a:

find "Calif" ftp.exe

Anyone want to check XP? I won't touch an XP box for fear of losing brain cells. What a bunch of hypocrites.

[choasforages]

actaully i took the FTP.EXE one step further, i typed
winex FTP.EXE
to my suprise it is the same command line ftp client that i have been using with *NIX for a while (of course, its the bsd ftp duh!!!) i will have to remeber this for when i have to fix some lamers wintel box. o well, just goes to tell you never to use the bsd license for stuff you want to keep away from microsloth

[voidmain]

That's really the only reason I like Linux over BSD.  M$ can't treat the code like a cheap whore. That is, use and abuse it, then talk bad about it the next morning.

[ June 11, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]