Re: Downloading NetBSD - Too complicated ?

[Miguel Clara <miguelmclara%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Christian Koch 
<cfkoch%sdf.lonestar.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:51:06PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
>> Hello NetBSD-Users,
>>
>> A couple of days ago I stumbled across the announcement of PCBSD 10
>> and gave it a shot.
>> Downloading was easy and fast, because it utilizes a CDN.
>> At that point, I crosschecked with www.netbsd.org and was embarrassed, how
>> complicated it is to get a copy of NetBSD.
>
> CDN means "content delivery network," right? How is a FTP site not a CDN?
>

And how is it?

A FTP server might or might not be under a CDN, in the case of PC-BSD
they use a CDN, although I must say it doesn't make much diference for
me (europe/portugal).

NetBSD has several FTP mirror servers, I tend to use ftp.nl.netbsd.org
or ftp.uk.netbsd.org because they are closer to me, but AFAIK its not
under a CDN.

Anyway I go to the netbsd site and see the "Get Netbsd part at the top
left and there's a link to the availeble mirrors" so I don't understad
how its so much harder then PC BSD?

Also for example PCBSD uses a hybrid usb/iso image and I am not able
to boot from USB on several laptops never add suck problems with
NetBSD images!

OpenBSD was indeed for me the one I found it harder to get....

> I must echo what everyone else has said. PC-BSD and NetBSD are in completely
> different fields. They thus *require* different downloading and installation
> procedures.
>
> -Christian