My workstation OS: NetBSD (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

Alan Dipert lists his reasons for choosing NetBSD, on NewsForge. "On the NetBSD Web site, you'll find that the NetBSD team prides itself on NetBSD's "clean design," and with good reason. As a Slackware Linux refugee, I could appreciate the BSD rc initialization and configuration scripts. I was also happy with the relatively low amount of software that comes with a default install. I've had trouble in the past paring down Linux distributions to installations of software I actually require. It's my philosophy, and apparently NetBSD's, to start with software sets of absolutely essential programs and libraries, then let users add what they require after the system has booted on its own. Though NetBSD installs with X11 by default, the environment is sparse to say the least. There are no automatic setup or configuration scripts, graphical or otherwise. After my installation was all said and done, NetBSD consumed less than 300MB of space on my machine, including XFree86."

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