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Re:Self-interview after leaving the NetBSD board by m-r-a-m on Saturday June 22, 2013 @10:40PM (#5926044)
I can't think of a good reason to use NetBSD [1] over Linux [2] for any architectures that Linux supports. I guess licensing is an issue for some companies. If there's another reason, the NetBSD project needs to communicate it better to attract new users.

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/ports/#ports-by-cpu

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_supported_archit...

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Re:Self-interview after leaving the NetBSD board by justincormack on Sunday June 23, 2013 @07:12AM (#5927049)
You can use both - you can run NetBSD in userspace under Linux http://www.netbsd.org/docs/rump/ - eg to run userspace filesystem drivers or a userspace IP stack... you can't do that with Linux.
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