Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:34:21 +0100 From: "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> To: "Andy Ruhl" <acruhl@gmail.com> Cc: misc@openbsd.org, "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@mit.edu>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>, miros-discuss@mirbsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD Message-ID: <8a0028260608311334x76c44e02u1d9dde1b1c1e5012@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <78a2305a0608311316pf9bdffdy9557847ed3483d9b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu> <c6d37fe0608310259k12fe629eve59e59042fcfdb4c@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSM.4.64L.0608311312190.8977@odem.66h.42h.de> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <Pine.BSM.4.64L.0608311515290.8977@odem.66h.42h.de> <78a2305a0608310830l923f83pbd03b2c89d417505@mail.gmail.com> <44F703C0.30604@softjar.se> <20060831192614.GA10101@multics.mit.edu> <78a2305a0608311316pf9bdffdy9557847ed3483d9b@mail.gmail.com>
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On 31/08/06, Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/31/06, Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu> wrote: > > Actually, defining (poorly) the OS to include so much else has been a > > liability for NetBSD in many ways. It has massively slowed the adoption > > of new software versions (e.g. GCC), for one. It also contributed to > > the perception that a better package system and automatic updates were > > not a serious issue. > > It would be interesting to hear more discussion on this. > > If there is a continuum that is what the definition of an OS is, with > a bare kernel on the left and something like SuSE with multiple gigs > of junk on the right, NetBSD is toward the left. I think consensus is > among NetBSD people is that this is a good thing. If you want > something, put it in pkgsrc. To be fair, it's easy to remove 'junk' from SuSE, and not much harder to pile junk into a working Gentoo, Slackware or NetBSD installation. Ironically one complaint that's often voiced at SuSE is that its selection of rpm junk isn't as extensive as other distros'. Jeff.
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