> How does the support and ecosystem compare to FreeBSD Haven't used NetBSD much directly, but used pkgsrc (NetBSD ports) on dragonfly for several years before

> How does the support and ecosystem compare to FreeBSD Haven't used NetBSD much directly, but used pkgsrc (NetBSD ports) on dragonfly for several years before dragonfly switched back to running their own ports system. The netbsd ports build system at that time was much cleaner (buildlink to ensure linking only to correct and explicitly managed libraries rather than 'whatever is in path') and the fact that there were pkgsrc 'release points' made it easier to have coherent/reproducible applications (not sure if things have changed on FreeBSD side). There were less ports, but generally most things were covered. As for the OS side, not so sure (see dragonfly), but the times I have installed it seemed solid enough. Overall it feels more 'clean' whereas freebsd feels more 'cosy'. Not sure how to quantify that. The system build is cool because you can cross-build any system & toolchain, and this works even across OS's (e.g. build NetBSD/arm from linux)