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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] NetBSD vs FreeBSD[HYPERscan M7]
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From: Christopher Biggs <chris at stallion.oz.au>
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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> | >
> | > FreeBSD is for people who like to run Enlightenment and all the
> | > associated multimedia bells and whistles, and think that having 10%
> | > better filesystem througput is a "killer app".
> | >
> | Well I don't know what Enlightenment is, don't have a sound card installed,
> | no bells, no whistles, but I'll certainly think twice about saying that I
> | run FreeBSD... obviously not much better than windoze. Or was that a joke?
> 
> Sounds more like lack of information to me.

OK, so I was being facetious.  

The differences are almost entirely cultural, and cannot be adequately
expressed in *any* short message.  Here's another take from a different
direction:

FreeBSD concentrates on cutting-edge performance and flexibility on a
small number of platforms.   For example, FreeBSD is a proving ground
for next-generation filesystem and virtual memory architectures.

NetBSD and OpenBSD concentrate on "do it right first"---uniformity and
reliability take precedence, along with maximum portability.  

Since all these sibling OSen exchange memes and code often, the
difference is not so much one of disparate goals, but of each camp
choosing a different *primary* goal.

--cjb

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