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I Like NetBSD, or Why Portability Matters (mccd.space)
38 points by yarapavan on Aug 1, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I love that NetBSD is still going strong, I like the system but it does not really have a professional use case anymore. Not that it matters but it would be great to run NetBSD on a server or desktop and have the performance and driver support not be completely nonexistent.

The portability aspect is cool but Linux runs on more platforms nowadays


I think NetBSD is still the easiest to port of all other systems. I read its HAL (hardware Abstraction Layer) makes things much easier. It is just they have a far smaller set of developers.

Note, Posted via NetBSD 10.0 on a Thinkpad T430.




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