> My experience with NetBSD has been that the X windows environment is a
> little easier on RAM than the bloatware X windows that ships with Linux
> distros. The Linux distros care about <market share> and try to make the
> desktop impressive with features. NetBSD does not worry about market share.
> NetBSD gets several different architectures on one CD, while most modern
> Linux distros can't squeek by with two CDs for one architecture. NetBSD may
> offer good X windows performance on your 7500 as configured, but I haven't
> tried it since 1.4.2.
I'm sure it is also true of 1.5.x. This is also why I like NetBSD; the
community has much of the old friendly frontier feel Linux used to have
before it became k3wL. Thus smaller, more compact distributions more
attuned to function over flash.
> Any comments on the similarity of the NetBSD layout (config files,
> directory structure) to the OSX BSD subsystem? Could NetBSD be a good
> primer to learn a little BSD before a jump to OSX? I know OSX uses netinfo
> which throws a curve ball into this discussion. I'm just starting to wrap
> my head around OSX, and my Linux experience sometimes gets in the way.
I haven't played with OSX's filesystem much, but I really wasn't struck
by any obnoxious similarities. I still have to get my hands dirty in it,
though, so don't take my word for it :-)
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