[geeks] State of the BSDs (Was: [rescue] Transplanting a Sun Fire V210 motherboard - PSU requirements?)

[Cory Smelosky]

On 27 Feb 2013, at 22:23, Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:

>> I'd be interested to hear your (and Mouse's) thoughts about the state
>> of the various BSDs.
>
> Well, I already remarked, upthread, on where I see NetBSD as going
> these days.  I don't use any of the others enough to be competent to
> hold an opinion; for my purposes (an important qualification), NetBSD
> is still the best (of an increasingly bad lot).
>
>> I know that Mouse uses older versions of NetBSD, also.
>
> I do.  I still run 1.4T (with numerous private hacks, as is true of
> every version I run) on the machines where I can - ie, where it
> supports the hardware in question.
>
> The most recent NetBSD I run is 5.2.  I won't run 6.x, and don't expect
> to run anything newer, for licensing reasons I can go into if anyone
> cares (most briefly, I find the GPLv3 inappropriate for
> (supposedly-)open-source work).  This may or may not count as "older
> versions" for your purposes.

5.2 on my Netra was apparently sitting at ddb for a large portion of today.
It's my router and I didn't notice.  It did not care.  A simple "continue" and
it came back.  NetBSD 6.x is whole different beast.

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