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by ninjin 239 days ago
Yes, and OpenBSD being a fork of NetBSD still carries some of that spirit.
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a96 239 days ago
And both of those have very minimal ports compared to Linux. Notably in modern arm/riscv. Netbsd has really fallen behind.

Still better than the none of freebsd.

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ninjin 239 days ago
I mean, are we surprised? Linux has on the order of millions times more users and funds (probably not developers though, but who knows). Thus, if there is any financial viability of a port I am certainly expecting Linux to "move" first. Rather, I am impressed that OpenBSD and NetBSD are keeping up as well as they do.
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rhabarba 239 days ago
NetBSD and OpenBSD support “old” hardware notably longer than Linux does though. OpenBSD having dropped the VAX is not that long ago.
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sedawkgrep 239 days ago
Yeah I suppose.

But OpenBSD forked from NetBSD like, what, 30 years ago?

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