Yesterday I read a kind article in IBM developerWorks by Tim McIntire about the goodness of NetBSD, one of the great BSD operating systems. Its main goal is an portable OS to the most plataforms. So, i.e. it’s very valuable in embebed systems.
But today I read in kerneltrap an email of Charles M. Hannum, one of the project founders in the NetBSD mailing list, in which he make a sad reflection about the current state of the project: “most readers are probably wondering whether I’m just writing a eulogy for the NetBSD project”, he writes.

He puts on the board the factors that differentiate the GNU/Linux sucess and (what he thinks) the dying of NetBSD. Not economical factors as could happen with OpenBSD, rather inner policy.

I admit I didn’t tasted yet NetBSD because I’m still improving my OpenBSD. But, what I learn testing some OS’s and distributions, is every project has its place. And NetBSD has an important place: you can install in a PC, adapt it to work in a mobile device, a VAX, even in a toaster.

Updated,Sept.16:Federico Biancuzzi interviews Hannum at ONLamp
Updated,Sept.24:Bitter letter to NetBSD by the Spanish developer Julio M. Merino Vidal