In <199410252359.TAA07662@pain.lcs.mit.edu>  you write:
    ... I keep hearing so much
    about how linux is bad and netbsd is good. I'm not taking
    any position here but i really would like to hear what's
    wrong with linux and why is netbsd so good... I myself
    have an amiga and will probably installa unix based os
    as amigaos doesn't provide some of the functions i need
    so any info would be most appriciated.

That can be a dangerous question to ask :-).  The good things and
bad things about Linux are actually the same ones...

One good thing is that lots of people are hacking on it, and there are
lots of drivers, etc. available.  The problem is that lots of people
are working on it, so there are new releases weekly, stuff you get
precompiled wasn't built right over half the time, and various pieces
parts sometimes don't play well together.

In the more abstract design sense, one of the weaknesses of Linux is
that data structures and system services are not abstracted via
subroutine calls, hence code all over the kernel knows what the process
table, etc.  looks like.  This means that changing these data
structures is nearly impossible.  The NetBSD code has well insulated
data structures which hide all the low level implementation details,
hence they can be changed by fixing just the interface routines.

Once again, this is a good thing and a bad thing -- it's good because
it makes the system easier to maintain and modify and debug, its bad
because it makes the system slower with all the function call
overhead.

Third, the NetBSD code was done with portability in mind, and the NetBSD
team is maintaining NetBSD on 5 or 6 platforms now.  On the other hand,
folks seem to be starting to have some luck with Linux ports to other
platforms...

So the good things and bad things are the same things, it just depends
how you look at them :-).

Marc