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NetBSD - thoughts? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's the point of it?

OpenBSD = Security

FreeBSD = The main UNIX-like

NetBSD = ???

Based on the name of have assumed it's be used in things like network appliances but in 20 years I've never seen a single device use it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Somewhat confused this is in a linux community when none of these OS are linux based. Are we lacking on BSD communities?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

We don't have BSD communities and even if we did they probably wouldn't be big enough to get a decent answer.

So I asked here cos there's a high chance that some Linux users will also know something about *BSD.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

You'd probably get better conversations at selfhosted I know some folks there run *bsd network appliances. NASs, firewalls, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think no BSD expert will bother this place

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are some BSD communities on Lemmy/kbin, but they don't have many subscribers yet.
Here are the ones I know of:
@openbsd
@openbsd
@bsd
@netbsd
@bsd
@freebsd
@freebsd
@netbsd
@bsd
@freebsd
@FreeBSD

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not like the interests are not aligned.