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It was developed by Linus Torvalds. |
It was developed by The NetBSD Foundation. |
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It was launched in 1991. |
It was launched in 1993. |
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Its target system types are embedded systems, mobile devices, personal computers, servers, mainframe computers and supercomputers. |
Its target system types are NAS, server, workstation and embedded systems. |
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Computer architectures supported by Linux are IA-32, x86-64, ARM, PowerPC and SPARC. |
Computer architectures supported by NetBSD are IA-32, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and sparc64. |
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Its kernel type is Monolithic. |
Its kernel type is Monolithic with modules. |
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Its native APIs are LINUX/POSIX. |
Its native APIs are BSD-POSIX. |
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It has preferred license of GNU GPLv2 (kernel). |
It has the preferred license of BSD. |
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Its package management depends on the distribution. |
Its package management is pkgsrc. |
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The non-native APIs supported through its subsystems are Mono, Java, Win16 and Win32. |
The non-native APIs supported through its subsystems are Linux and others. |
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Its update management depends on the distribution. |
Its update management is by source or by binary. |
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File systems supported by Linux are ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, ReiserFS, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF and NFS. |
File systems supported by NetBSD are UFS, UFS2, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, NFS and LFS. |