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> Say I have to install a unix system on 20 machines (which happens quite
> often for me), and I have one day to acomplish this... No way I'm going
> to make it if I was going to choose *BSD... I first have to install one
> machine, download every single program I need (and some I might not need,
> just incase), every single dependent software (libs etc). I then have to
> compile, install and configure...
Well, you could do it that way. Or you could just do the install,
edit rc.conf, and use pkg_add to add the precompiled binaries of
all the software you like. The fact that you personally don't want
to use the package facilties and precompiled packages hardly makes
NetBSD a bad OS in this respect.
> When this machine is done, it would have
> taken me, what? 2 days?
I can set up a machine in well under an hour. Less, if it's a nice
fast machine (i.e., not a SparcStation IPX :-)).
cjs
Curt Sampson
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