Why NetBSD?.
To select the platform to use we reviewed most of the opensource unix derivatives. We'd already decided that the OS must be opensource, and unix based. Windows NT was considered but the considerably architectural differences would have made the CPE considerably more complex.
- NetBSD is oriented around portability
- NetBSD has a core team guiding the development
- NetBSD is smaller and more compact than the other *BSD derivatives.
- As simulation people we feel that NetBSD is more suited.
- Linux is too big, and realistically there are a lot of variants.
- NetBSD is derived from BSD, and has a much more unix-like core.