After I had to come up with some arguments for NetBSD, I've put them
together in some web page, see
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/why-run-netbsd.html. 

I'd appreciate any input. Right now I have:

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Why should I choose NetBSD over FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux?

Although NetBSD runs on like 27 more archs than you probably have, it
still offers you:

   * State of the art device drivers (shall I say soundcard? :-) Oh, and
     just in case you need features like serial console or a netboot...
   * Latest network technologies (first OS to integrate IPv6, IEEE 802.11
     wireless networking, ...)
   * First OS to include USB support for mice, keyboards, modem, mass
     storage devices (USB ZIP!), ...
   * DVD ROM and RAM support
   * Working LFS and FFS with softdep support for fast, high performance
     filesystems
   * Installation from floppy, CD, disk, tape, NFS, FTP, ...
   * One (1) source tree for all architectures, including X, networking,
     device drivers, ...
   * Least number of security bugs reported in any public forums like
     bugtraq (Security without a hype :-)
   * Runs your Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, SCO-binaries just fine.
   * First free OS to make a y2k statement (in case you need it ;-)
   * Kernel debugging on the local machine, remote, or post mortem.
   * Full source available (even the RCS files, in case you want your own
     CVS repository)
   * ... and OF COURSE it runs all the essentials like KDE, GNOME, Netscape,
     Quake, apache, perl, samba, StarOffice, GIMP, etc.

Probably the only thing you won't get with NetBSD is the media hype.
You'll need to get that somewhere else. :-)
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 - Hubert

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