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Re: Do you advise me to adopt NetBSD?



On 2012-10-11 12:00, Thomas Mueller wrote:> from vitsen%gmx.com@localhost:

> I've had a rough time with NetBSD, worse on the new computer (Intel Sandy Bridge) > than the old. FreeBSD worked better. You might want to try NetBSD or FreeBSD
> to see how it works, but don't burn your bridges on Linux.
>
> I would say NetBSD is more minimalistic than FreeBSD; FreeBSD seems more
> forward-looking, and stabler.

The impression that I got (which may as well be wrong) is that FreeBSD is more mass-oriented than Net-/OpenBSD, although not as much as PC-BSD, of course. Next to PC-BSD, FreeBSD is probably the more Linux-like of BSD distributions. And that is precisely the reason why it does not attract me.




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