Re: What makes NetBSD special?

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 07/31/2011 11:10 PM, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> There isn't much difference in actual use. It's some minor differences
> in package management for the most part.
>
> The difference for the lay person is functionality and supported
> hardware. NetBSD is ahead as far as number of platforms, but FreeBSD
> has all of the really popular ones as far as I remember. FreeBSD also
> has support for ZFS which some people consider important.

Who has better support for peripherals and components? I'm thinking 
printers, digital cameras, webcams, graphics cards, etc. I did find this 
page:

http://www.netbsd.org/support/hardware/

But as far as I can tell it doesn't cover AGP graphics cards, printers, 
etc. Is there another page that covers printers, webcams and so on?


> This is what makes NetBSD totally worth it to me:
>
> cvs -d<cvs server>  update -PAd -r<release you're using>  src
> cd src
> ./build.sh release
>
> Then you can install/upgrade your OS from that. It's so easy to
> maintain the OS. I know others strive for this simplicity, but they
> aren't quite there yet in my opinion.

Interesting. Thanks.

Daniel.
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