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It even can run as Xen dom0. Well, that's software developer-led cowboy coding for you: prioritization based on weekend impulses rather than user-driven urgenc

It even can run as Xen dom0. Well, that's software developer-led cowboy coding for you: prioritization based on weekend impulses rather than user-driven urgency. Also, the hobbyist and volunteer excuses don't fly because a professional effort with a saleprice of $0 has to compete with non-free and is subject to forking and loss of interest if it founders or stalls. Also, I don't think there are enough NetBSD devs. It's main users are some ISPs for network infrastructure IIRC. BTW, FreeBSD doesn't even run usably on RPi4, it boots and that's about it. RPi3 support is somewhat better, but still worse than RPi2. I hope all FOSS OSes, including Linux, get and stay organized and productive, but not heading toward a greater unbalanced power law distribution (pun unavoidable) monoculture where only Linux dominates, because then we're in real trouble.

Santosh83 7y ago
Volunteers can only do so much. Money is a powerful motivator and hence Linux is head and shoulders above its brethren because it has vast corporate involvement. And it still can't compete with Windows (in terms of hardware support for desktops and workstations) which tells you how much the hardware and software industries are black boxes...
- MuffinFlavored 7y ago
  > Volunteers can only do so much. Opinion: which is why I think the limited volunteer hours available for *BSD projects shouldn't be fragmented across NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/DragonFly BSD.
- jankotek 7y ago
  Could you elaborate on hw support? In my experience Linux has much better support for old obscure hardware. Some things got drivers for WinXP, maybe Win 7, but not in 10. Windows can not even boot up on some older x86 processors. And windows on ARM...
agapon 7y ago
I hear that the biggest problem with FreeBSD/RPi is Broadcom.
rbanffy 7y ago
> Well, that's software developer-led cowboy coding for you: prioritization based on weekend impulses rather than user-driven urgency. This makes NetBSD a good choice if you intend to have fun developing an OS, but not a very good one if you want to make a living running software on said OS.

Santosh83 7y ago

Volunteers can only do so much. Money is a powerful motivator and hence Linux is head and shoulders above its brethren because it has vast corporate involvement. And it still can't compete with Windows (in terms of hardware support for desktops and workstations) which tells you how much the hardware and software industries are black boxes...

MuffinFlavored 7y ago
> Volunteers can only do so much. Opinion: which is why I think the limited volunteer hours available for *BSD projects shouldn't be fragmented across NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/DragonFly BSD.
jankotek 7y ago
Could you elaborate on hw support? In my experience Linux has much better support for old obscure hardware. Some things got drivers for WinXP, maybe Win 7, but not in 10. Windows can not even boot up on some older x86 processors. And windows on ARM...

agapon 7y ago

I hear that the biggest problem with FreeBSD/RPi is Broadcom.

rbanffy 7y ago

> Well, that's software developer-led cowboy coding for you: prioritization based on weekend impulses rather than user-driven urgency. This makes NetBSD a good choice if you intend to have fun developing an OS, but not a very good one if you want to make a living running software on said OS.