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Old 25th September 2010
acottag acottag is offline
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Hello!

It's great to hear you all.

The reasons to use NetBSD are the following:

a) Learn Unix :-p NetBSD design goals - to provide a first quality source code and a structured and modular design, values that I learned in faculty and that proved to be of great worth in real world production systems- make it to me the system of choice.

b) It's drivers at version 5.0.2 support a AnyData cellular USB modem from the start, something I didn't get in FreeBSD version 8.0. Additionally, it maintains "pppd" - Point to Point Protoco daemon. The script used to control the modem is based on it; "pppd" has been removed from FreeBSD since version 8.0.

c) Documentation is clear and simple, with enough detail. I don't feel easy with OpenBSD style of documentation - margin, header and footer comments and graphics, which I found to be distracting.

For the sake of method, I am going to keep with NetBSD for now, as long as it doesn't pose a problem for me that I can't solve.

The in the next post I 'll give the specifications of the laptop machine I'm using.

Best regards for all.
See you soon.
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