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by fowl2 119 days ago
Windows already does, so you’re talking about the BSDs or Darwin?
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ladyanita22 119 days ago
BSDs and other Open Source OSes that rely on Linux drivers.

Windows probably has not many (or any) drivers ported from Linux.

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anthk 119 days ago
Please, stop pluralizing "BSD's", every BSD it's different and OpenBSD only reuses Linux drivers for KMS/DRM; FreeBSD has special layers and tons of drivers ported and NetBSD it's closer to philosophy in design.
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ladyanita22 119 days ago
I will pluralize as all of them port some drivers from Linux
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anthk 119 days ago
So GNU/Linux now it's in the same group as FreeBSD as it has ZFS? Because neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD have it.

OpenBSD doesn't 'rely' on Linux drivers, thanks. Just a shim against KMS/DRM, everything else it's either homegroup or sometimes adapted (back and forth) from NetBSD but OFC patched for correctness and security. There's no ALSA. Pulse it's totally optional. There's no wpa_supplicant except for Eduroam or simlar niche crap under OpenBSD.

OpenBSD has OSS and sndiod. There's Xenocara, an X11 fork. Again, not Linux, X11, MESA and Gallium are damn generic. Show me the rest of ported Linux drivers into OpenBSD, please.

Are you sure OpenBSD is that dependant GNU/Linux?

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