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Why is it so hard to believe? NetBSD was a fully mature operating system by the time the WWW was developed. The serious options were Solaris, AIX, HPUX. They we
by Maursault 4y ago
Why is it so hard to believe? NetBSD was a fully mature operating system by the time the WWW was developed. The serious options were Solaris, AIX, HPUX. They weren't free. NetBSD was under active development and runs on literally everything, plus it has pkgsrc, massive amounts of source code available for free that pkgsrc managed. Maybe I am biased because I already know, but it makes a lot of sense NetBSD was so popularly widely deployed for webservers for so long.
- lproven 4y agoSo prove it. Put up or shut up. Provide supporting evidence, and we will listen. Otherwise: nah.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoBecause I was running dozens of web servers in 2006 and was a very active part of the ops community, and everybody thought running a website on NetBSD was bonkers. Linux was already well-proven technology by this point, with a variety of free and commercial offerings. We mostly used Debian, although if people really enjoyed handing over money we'd put RHEL on for them.