Re: NetBSD vs FreeBSD

[Al Zick <al%familysafeinternet.com@localhost>]

Hi,


On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Alex Goncharov wrote:

> ,--- You/Daniel (Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:12:48 +0200) ----*
> |
> | http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2009/02/09/msg001189.html
> |
> | The poster says that NetBSD is faster.
>
> Since it was in response to my explorations: no offense to the NetBSD
> users and developers, but after trying to use NetBSD for a while, I
> had to turn back to FreeBSD, completely.  The performance of my
> desktop environment has never been an issue for me, and if some
> programs run 5% slower on FreeBSD, why would I care?  (But they
> probably not, in recent FreeBSDs).

I use to run a site that had an Alexa rating of less than 500,000 on  
a 68k box. Can you guess what OS I used?


> In my experiments, FreeBSD proved to be an altogether better
> environment, with a superior developer support (just more people in
> the project, perhaps).

I just done a remote install of NetBSD on a leased server because I  
was unhappy with their chooses of OSes.

> ,--- You/Daniel (Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:16:37 +0200) ----*
> |
> | Isn't Xen just a virtual machine like QEMU, VirtualBox, etc? What  
> makes
> | Xen special that people here talk about it while they don't talk  
> about
> | QEMU and VirtualBox?
>
> VirtualBox works well on FreeBSD, and was significantly easier to
> configure than Xen on NetBSD when I used that.  Also, that Xen (about
> three years ago) used only one processor of a dual processor machine
> -- I didn't like that at all and my Xen was quickly gone.

I don't see any reason that you can run NetBSD on VirtualBox if you  
wanted to. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I would think you  
would want XEN on a server and not any of these others.

-Al