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Aww, common, don’t put NetBSD in the same bag as Solaris. There are dozens of us!
by tambourine_man 6y ago
Aww, common, don’t put NetBSD in the same bag as Solaris. There are dozens of us!
- kstrauser 6y agoNetBSD on x86-64: great! NetBSD on mid-90s hardware: uhh, that's cool if you want to experiment with it or enjoy the nostalgia value, but if you're doing that, you know what you signed up for.
- cbmuser 6y agoYes, but that doesn’t mean anyone has the right to kill these architectures off. Btw, we just saved the VAX backend in gcc.
- kstrauser 6y agoI disagree vehemently. Upstream has every right to kill off support for them in the version they maintain. Interested parties are more than welcome to fork the software and maintain their own supported branch. That's a huge part of the appeal of Free Software!
- tomc1985 6y ago> NetBSD on mid-90s hardware: uhh, that's cool if you want to experiment with it or enjoy the nostalgia value, but if you're doing that, you know what you signed up for. So why is old tech persona non grata? I'm getting so tired of this death march.
- kstrauser 6y agoOne reason is because its performance per watt is horrid. There’s an environmental cost at keeping hardware 17 Moore’s Law generations behind up and running.
- jjgreen 6y ago... but no Intel Management Engine ...
- zaarn 6y agoYou get that on an RPi4 with less power and more performance than some of the ancient architectures still being dragged along for the ride in some projects.
- garaetjjte 6y agoBad example, on RPi you still have horrid proprietary blobs running.
- zaarn 6y agoThen pick one of the million clones that don't.
- aidenn0 6y agoWhen did it go from "Of course it runs NetBSD" to "Of course nobody runs NetBSD"?