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　　Note: See the NetBSD Guide in the Resources section for information on how to enable CGD.

　　General security

　　NetBSD takes security very seriously; the inclusion of the CGD is only one of many examples. If portability is rule number one for the NetBSD community, security doesn't sit far behind. An absolute dedication to well-written code is paramount, including procedures for code auditing and continued checks. Second, like OpenBSD, the default installation includes a bare minimum of packages installed, or configured. The first thing a system administrator is likely to do after a NetBSD installation on a server is to configure the network and enable Secure Shell (SSH), which gives you an indication of how little the default configuration enables. While some new users might argue that this approach makes things more difficult on them, learning to control and configure services is an important part of any UNIX-like operating system, and learning to do so doesn't take long. A quick read through the official NetBSD Guide helps get new users off the ground.

　　Note: See the Resources section for an additional link from gna.org to a great document for new NetBSD users.

　　Application support: Package source and binary emulation

　　Application support in NetBSD is both wide and varied. Most standard software familiar to administrators of UNIX-like operating systems is natively available to NetBSD and easily installed through the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), which includes more than 5000 packages. If you can't find what you are looking for through pkgsrc, you can always run through a series of binary emulators built into NetBSD, the most prominent of which is the Linux emulator running on i386.