Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:08:22 +0200 From: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Open Vs Free BSD Message-ID: <6101e8c40906190408h5b6a4496td12e2b9e4872459e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <h1forf$3lr$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <735E59909DEB44AF92825EA7C65CF430@ionicoffice.ionic.co.uk> <00265389C30B444288C246DF37651D0C249024DD1B@server-02.playsafesa.com> <h1forf$3lr$1@ger.gmane.org>
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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 <ivoras@freebsd.org> 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" >
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