Re: Firsts in NetBSD

["Andrei M." <lingvofactory%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

NetBSD was among pioneers to support Xen, although I'm not sure it
superceded Linux and others.
Hope this helps,

Andrei

2016-01-07 21:13 GMT+03:00 Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost>:
>
> I'm writing some documentation for a class I'm teaching soon at my job. One
> section covers various BSD's (each separate) contribution to features in the
> collective endowment of Unix variants out there.
>
> Here are the things I believe NetBSD was first at doing. Can anyone else
> think of ones that'd be worthy of note to a group of up-and-coming Unix
> geeks ?
>
> * First with a USB stack (beat Linux didn't it?)
> * First with TCP Auto tuning (Linux's autotune based on NetBSD's strategy)
> * First with Free ports to Alpha, HPPA, and MIPS (true?)
>
> I know there are more NetBSD "first to do XYZ". Does anyone care to correct
> those three or give me some more? Thanks in advance, friends.
>
> -Swift