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it's a testbed for a lot of experimental, some would even say unnecessary, technologies. Nope, that's DragonFly BSD. FreeBSD is far more conservative in compar
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
it's a testbed for a lot of experimental, some would even say unnecessary, technologies.
Nope, that's DragonFly BSD. FreeBSD is far more conservative in comparison, occasionally integrating some more daring idea. In contrast, NetBSD used to silently innovate all the time (and I think still do, what with rump kernels) and even OpenBSD, despite being rather vanilla on the outside, is internally innovative in the area of security.
- justincormack 12y agoI think it varies. FreeBSD does have a lot of stuff, like netmap, capsicum, that is quite experimental in some sense, although capsicum is a great design. NetBSD has rump kernel, but thats not much code, it is just(!) portability done right, some build fixes and a little code.