Comments on: NetBSD: An Alternative to Xubuntu and Ubuntu Lite for Machines With Low Specs http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/14/ Archive from the trenches of the IT World Blog. Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:47:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Mark http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/14/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Mark Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:09:59 +0000 http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/?p=14#comment-50 Richard, I agree regarding your comment about installing NetBSD. However, I've been using NetBSD (and just about every other open-source OS) since 1993. NetBSD, for historical reasons, has only put a minimal amount of effort (actually, they put quite a bit, but minimal compared to all other aspects of the OS dev effort) into their userland environment and install. NetBSD has a different development philosophy and goals. That being said, please don't be so close-minded to NetBSD. All distributions of Linux started out in even worse shape than NetBSD. NetBSD is an extremely high-quality and proven OS, for many users, for many years. You just won't hear any hype about it, but that's OK. Remember, all this is completely, and totally FREE. At any rate, NetBSD userland is getting better, and of course, the NetBSD OS itself is very high quality. Google for some interesting benchmark results between NetBSD, the other BSDs, and Linux. Richard, I agree regarding your comment about installing NetBSD. However, I’ve been using NetBSD (and just about every other open-source OS) since 1993. NetBSD, for historical reasons, has only put a minimal amount of effort (actually, they put quite a bit, but minimal compared to all other aspects of the OS dev effort) into their userland environment and install. NetBSD has a different development philosophy and goals.

That being said, please don’t be so close-minded to NetBSD. All distributions of Linux started out in even worse shape than NetBSD. NetBSD is an extremely high-quality and proven OS, for many users, for many years. You just won’t hear any hype about it, but that’s OK. Remember, all this is completely, and totally FREE.

At any rate, NetBSD userland is getting better, and of course, the NetBSD OS itself is very high quality. Google for some interesting benchmark results between NetBSD, the other BSDs, and Linux.

]]> By: Richard http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/14/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Richard Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:36:48 +0000 http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/?p=14#comment-6 As much as I dislike Microsoft operating systems I can see why they are so popular after trying to install NetBSD on a Dell Inspiron 530S and other computers. Ubuntu and other Linux versions load right up but not NetBSD. As much as I dislike Microsoft operating systems I can see why they are so popular after trying to install NetBSD on a Dell Inspiron 530S and other computers.

Ubuntu and other Linux versions load right up but not NetBSD.

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