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What is NetBSD?

• munchlax 1y ago
  It's the amount of BSD you have from gross BSD after paying all the technical debts.
  • bombcar 1y ago
    EBITDABSD.
  • rkomorn 1y ago
    But then what does that make FreeBSD?
• torstenvl 1y ago
  It's a BSD variant dedicated to running on a wide variety of hardware. One of the running jokes is that you can "run it on a toaster" — see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712368
  • bombcar 1y ago
    If it can run DooM it can run NetBSD.
    • justin66 1y ago
      Not really. Doom just requires a 32 bit CPU (maybe someone even kluged it together on a 16 bit platform?) but NetBSD requires a CPU with an MMU.
• atomic_princess 1y ago
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• spauldo 1y ago
  NetBSD is the slim, small, traditional BSD that has an emphasis on clean code and portability. It's great for small jobs and it'll run on that old SPARC that's collecting dust in the closet. It's simpler than FreeBSD (the industrial strength BSD) and doesn't have the hyper focus on security that OpenBSD does.