[nycbug-talk] *BSD compairson

[Johnny Lam]

George Georgalis wrote:
> 
> Why did you choose yourBSD?

I chose NetBSD because at the time (back in 1992 or so, NetBSD was 
pretty much the only option for running a Unix on my computer -- a 
Macintosh LC III.  I grew familiar with the way things were laid out in 
a NetBSD installation, and when I eventually had enough money to start 
buying better machines, I stayed with NetBSD because it gave me the same 
environment on i386 as I was used to on mac68k.  When I eventually got a 
job as a sysadmin, I just brought what I knew into my workplace and 
installed NetBSD to provide typical office-oriented services.  I guess 
what I'm saying is that NetBSD is my main tool at work because it's 
"just what I'm used to".  I'm hard-pressed to find a "killer-edge" in 
any one BSD that would make me choose it over another, especially given 
how the various BSD projects share ideas and code.

The reality of administering systems for me is that all of my BSD boxes 
are "pkgsrc machines".  Nowadays, I administer some FreeBSD boxes in 
addition to NetBSD boxes, but to me they're all the same because all of 
the services I run are provided through software installed from pkgsrc. 
  Because of that, I can reliably find my pkgsrc postfix config files in 
the same place, regardless of what is the underlying BSD.  I imagine 
that if I ever needed to administer a Linux box, I'd do the same thing 
with it -- install pkgsrc.  I guess this is just another expression of 
it's "just what I'm used to".

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam at pkgsrc.org>