Years ago, the Linux operating system stole the open source show and arguably the hearts and minds of the IT industry--or at least those parts of the industry that are inclined to support and use open source software. But with the advent of OpenSolaris a year ago as an open source Unix implementation, Linux is no longer the only option. And, it never was. There are three major BSD Unixes out there, and a number of others, and they are innovating, too.
Breaking News--The BSD Unix Projects Keep Humming Along
Nice little article about the current state of the BSD world. I wish the author had listed some of the other BSD variants (such as DragonFly) and why they exist. The author also appears to be most familiar with FreeBSD as he spends more time in the article on this operating system than NetBSD or OpenBSD (which gets a whopping 3 sentences vs. FreeBSDs 6 paragraphs). I'm reasonably confident that both NetBSD and OpenBSD have alot more going on for them than this.
I can only speak for OpenBSD, but 3.9 brought the ral(4) driver, the nfe(4) driver (nvidia chipset), numerous IPMI sensor drivers, Intel 10Gbit ixgb(4) driver, and numerous other fixes. Were I to actually write an article on what 3.9 brought us, I could spend hours in http://www.openbsd.org/plus39.html researching the changes.
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