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Why I Like NetBSD, or Why Portability Matters

So why use NetBSD? Many of its proponents would argue that NetBSD also has its own niche: the focus on portability. At the time I first heard about portability, I took it to roughly mean that you can run it on any machine. Now my understanding of the concept has evolved and I want to talk a bit about why portability is awesome, and why I think people undersell its importance...

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