| From: | Arto Huusko |
| Date: | 21 Sep 2000 at 08:49:50 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga on NetBSD? |
On 21-Syy-00, Rafael wrote:
>> Personally I'd like the SDK to run on FreeBSD, not tried it under the
>> Linux emulation on there yet though :/
>
> I'd like OpenBSD better, but doesn't matter really, once ported to one
> of the *BSD, a big part of the porting job is done for the rest of *BSD.
>
> FreeBSD is the most extended (x86), OpenBSD is the most secure, NetBSD is the
> most portable. So I've read.
Well, I haven't really invested time in using all of the *BSD but have understood
that the picture is not quite as clear as above, although those are mostly the
basic characteristics.
One of things I've noticed most striking is the difference between FreeBSD and
NetBSD release schedules, and the release philosophy in general. FreeBSD seems
to be quickly developing, making new releases often, adding new features at a speed
to the releases. On the other hand, NetBSD releases seldom but attempting still
to deliver a lot of features in a new release (the requirement of making new features
not "hacks" but real, robust quality).
Its a differenet philosophy behind all those three. And then again the philosphy
behind Linux is something different altogether.
Naturally, this discussion is getting sidetracked and has nothing to do with
the list anymore... (but so seem some of the other discussion on the list :(
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