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FreeBSD - You want to run an alternative to Linux OpenBSD - You care about security NetBSD - You want to hack on BSD
by snarfy 6y ago
FreeBSD - You want to run an alternative to Linux
OpenBSD - You care about security
NetBSD - You want to hack on BSD
- guenthert 6y agoHmmh? I thought NetBSD was the legacy/retro computing crowd. They still support (at least as 2nd tier architecture) SUN 2 with MC68K, which are more than 30 years old now. I don't quite understand the motivation for that, I must admit. If I would be curating museum machines, wouldn't I want the original software with it? You can't run modern software in a meaningful way on those ancient, quite limited machines, which have less RAM than today's CPUs cache.
- johnklos 6y agoNetBSD is a wonderful OS for embedded applications. Having support for a fully static port (the Sun2 port) and for old, generally slow architectures (m68k, VAX) means performance regressions don't go unnoticed, for starters. I run NetBSD on a system with 24 megs of memory. I don't think this is possible with modern GNU/Linux - one would need an older kernel and something other than systemd, I think.