The NetBSD Project's Goals

A project has no point if it doesn't have goals. Thankfully, the NetBSD Project has enough goals to keep it busy for quite some time. Generally speaking, the NetBSD Project:

provides a well designed, stable, and fast BSD system,
avoids encumbering licenses,
provides a portable system, which runs on many hardware platforms,
interoperates well with other systems,
conforms to open systems standards as much as is practical.

In summary:

The NetBSD Project provides a freely available and redistributable system that professionals, hobbyists, and researchers can use in whatever manner they wish.

People often ask for a list of differences between NetBSD and other freely available unix systems. It would not be appropriate to try to explain the goals and philosophy behind other projects here - we suggest you check each site for their goals, and make your own decision.

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