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The BSD organizations of today are more about researchers making an operating system for OS research as a field and less hacker idealists trying to bring a free
by scythe 8y ago
The BSD organizations of today are more about researchers making an operating system for OS research as a field and less hacker idealists trying to bring a free OS to the people. Nearly all of the latter people go to Linux these days.
- ripdog 8y agoIf researchers are working on NetBSD, wouldn't it be receiving more novel improvements? Everything in this changelog looks like stuff other OS's have done before. How is that research?
- mrpippy 8y agoNetBSD rump kernels come to mind, they've been around for a few years
- nbsd4life 8y agoIt isn't a zero sum game with a finite number of FOSS idealists. Linux's popularity grew rapidly in what were previously proprietary software users. It didn't take away that much from BSDs. Linux and other FOSS software becoming popular makes using NetBSD a lot more convenient, not less. There's a top tier FOSS browser that will accept NetBSD related patches, several really good document editors, graphical tools. We can even take some driver code from Linux itself.