Comment NetBSD (Score 1) 407
Friends and myself have moved most of our FreeBSD boxes to NetBSD. As FreeBSD has grown bulky and fat (like many linux distros), NetBSD was there to fall back on. NetBSD feels and acts like UNIX in a world where everyone wants to act like Windows.
If I'm running a web server, a shell host, or any type of internet server I don't want X windows and a bunch of other garbage. I expect the install to be small and tight.
The documentation for NetBSD is clear and good. Things are precise. When I search for answers to Linux issues, there is so many distros and versions and garbage in the way between me and what I'm looking for.
We are running NetBSD on modern hardware. The hardware support has been fine by me, from oddball USB sound adaptors used to feed live 24x7x365 audio feeds, to notebook computers with various PCMCIA cards acting as a network bridge, to P4 and AMD systems running high usage shell and web hosts for friends, NetBSD does what we want.
There are some flaws, yes. But no more than other operating systems. A Journaling file system would be nice, but other than that... We are happy.
People say "Why run NetBSD when there are other choices." Why run Linux? If it gets the job done, and does it well, I'm happy. I run Linux too, mainly for machines that need desktops (closed source video card drivers), and Java stuff.
Hey NETBSD, how about a donation jar so the community can donate to fund the development of a good journaling file system?
If I'm running a web server, a shell host, or any type of internet server I don't want X windows and a bunch of other garbage. I expect the install to be small and tight.
The documentation for NetBSD is clear and good. Things are precise. When I search for answers to Linux issues, there is so many distros and versions and garbage in the way between me and what I'm looking for.
We are running NetBSD on modern hardware. The hardware support has been fine by me, from oddball USB sound adaptors used to feed live 24x7x365 audio feeds, to notebook computers with various PCMCIA cards acting as a network bridge, to P4 and AMD systems running high usage shell and web hosts for friends, NetBSD does what we want.
There are some flaws, yes. But no more than other operating systems. A Journaling file system would be nice, but other than that... We are happy.
People say "Why run NetBSD when there are other choices." Why run Linux? If it gets the job done, and does it well, I'm happy. I run Linux too, mainly for machines that need desktops (closed source video card drivers), and Java stuff.
Hey NETBSD, how about a donation jar so the community can donate to fund the development of a good journaling file system?
