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I have set up a mirror for the major BSD software, especially DragonFly/Free/Open/NetBSD and KAME at my personal server, tarsier.delphij.net for about two weeks. Today I have annouced that on kernel@dfly and Liam Foy has added it to the official download list.
Some cvsweb and other related site is ongoing. I’m very pleased that I can support BSD related software, no matter joining their development, or providing mirrors for wider spread.
A post on tech-kern has suggested that NetBSD has better performance on several aspects. I think FreeBSD should take some of their ideas. What’s more, I believe it’s more important to have something that is unique in FreeBSD, not doing what’s the equivalent because “Solaris have this” :-)
Finally NetBSD has released their 2.0-RELEASE, which is a significant progress of the NetBSD development.
NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports fifty four different system architectures, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more. NetBSD 2.0 continues the long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, major security enhancements, and support for many new platforms and peripherals.
NetBSD has chosen the new logo:
This logo was designed by Grant Bisset in 2004.
It seems that FreeBSD and NetBSD have a lot of difference on busdma interfaces and this has blocked me from porting OpenBSD’s firmware upload support on mpt(4). Will have another attempt this weekend.
The RCng system was developed by NetBSD and FreeBSD have adopted it. _rc_subr_loaded is a flag that both system adopts to speed up the startup.
The FreeBSD approach is to determine whether to run for the whole rc.subr script, while NetBSD approach is to define it as a “:” so rc_subr won’t be loaded.
Which is better?
Finally, yes, itojun has imported pf(4) into NetBSD. Having pf(4) in base indicates that NetBSD’s recognition of pf(4) related work, and as security officer of NetBSD, itojun-san’s import have some special meanings.
It appears that NetBSD has finally adopted packet filter, an OpenBSD feature to its base. Compared to FreeBSD’s pf port, this will be much easier one because the VM structure is almostly alike.
I am thinking of the possiblity of backporting / porting several DragonFly and NetBSD, even OpenBSD’s features, to FreeBSD, to increase its performance, stablity, and the code readablity.
Today, NetBSD has announced their start of 2.0-RELEASE works. NetBSD is an excellent operating system that supports many platforms, if not most.