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I am so glad there's at least one OS out there (NetBSD) that isn't competing in a popularity contest and still sees the value in writing good, clean, machine in
by johnklos 3y ago
I am so glad there's at least one OS out there (NetBSD) that isn't competing in a popularity contest and still sees the value in writing good, clean, machine independent code.
On the other hand, I can see the rationale for deprecating 32 bit support and making FreeBSD a 64 bit only OS. After all, there'll always be NetBSD for smaller systems.
It'd be fun to examine other metrics to gauge popularity. For instance, I bet the weight of VAXen that're running NetBSD far outweighs all of the aarch64 devices running FreeBSD, and perhaps even Linux ;)