Comments on: Julio Merino and NetBSD, and volunteerism

By: BrendanK

BrendanK — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:59:58 +0000

All being said, NetBSD is still the safe choice for a life support system.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 04:10:21 +0000

I wish all the BSDs that aren’t DragonFly would go to Git, for the entirely selfish reason that having the first line as the commit message subject is much, much more helpful when looking through a lot of messages for interesting stuff.

It’s a lot easier to pick out worthwhile posting material that way.

By: FAndrey

FAndrey — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 03:33:12 +0000

FreeBSD have many blogs and subprojects https://wiki.freebsd.org/, http://blogs.freebsdish.org/, http://www.freshports.org/ and more. Although official news would not prevent :)

By: Billy Larlad

Billy Larlad — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:14:24 +0000

Good post, Justin. One of the things I like most about OpenBSD (the BSD I use most ) is that it’s really easy to tell what’s going on with the project. Not only can we look at the daily changelog, which is consistently updated and displayed prominently on the project’s homepage, but we have nice sources of info such as undeadly, and mailing lists that are very public. I have no idea how this compares to NetBSD, so I’m not trying to slag them, just mentioning that it’s a selling point for an OS.

If any BSD could improve its communicating with users, IMO, it is FreeBSD. Again, this is an outsider’s perspective, but their webpage’s news section is not updated as often as you’d expect from such a large project.