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TrueOS VS NetBSD

Compare TrueOS VS NetBSD and see what are their differences

TrueOS logo TrueOS

Formerly known as: PC-BSD

NetBSD logo NetBSD

PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC, MIPS, SH3, ARM, amd64, i386, m68k, VAX: Of course it runs NetBSD.
  • TrueOS Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-07-23
  • NetBSD Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-03

TrueOS videos

TrueOS: Linux or Windows Alternative

More videos:

  • Review - TrueOS 17.12 Review – An Easy BSD
  • Review - TrueOS 18 03 Review

NetBSD videos

A FreeBSD User Tries Out....NetBSD 8.0

More videos:

  • Review - Comparision Video - NetBSD & OpenBSD
  • Tutorial - How to install NetBSD 9.0 plus the Xfce desktop

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to TrueOS and NetBSD)
Linux
34 34%
66% 66
Linux Distribution
40 40%
60% 60
Operating Systems
35 35%
65% 65
Open Source
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, NetBSD seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

TrueOS mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of TrueOS yet. Tracking of TrueOS recommendations started around Mar 2021.

NetBSD mentions (3)

  • Shit they exist
    The idea of config files is fine, it's the implementation I don't like. I was using NetBSD recently for my senior project and found it fine to use - all the documentation is in one place (well, two - the manpages and netbsd.org). It's when the documentation is nonexistent and you have to search through a million different websites and forum posts to find the one line you have to change - that's what gets me. Linus... Source: over 1 year ago
  • Redox OS 0.7.0
    This is what most of the existing open source operating systems are and it is much easier to contribute to those or fork one that does most of what you want. If you are aiming at a POSIX system then there is a fair amount of work but you at least then get a huge amount of already written software that you can run (IIUC Redox is aiming for this but written in Rust). A structure like Qubes OS would make it easier... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
  • Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls
    It looks like one of the vulnerabilities involves being able to sneak in a rogue ICMPv6 route advertisement, with rogue DNS entries. It also mentions doing this kind of stuff against NetBSD 7.1, but that's a couple of versions old, so I guess they were concerned about all the random managed access points floating around? Source: almost 3 years ago

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