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FreeBSD is not really curious about being as portable as possible, I think. And it is somewhat larger, indeed, so it's not quite as easy to support more platfor
by rhabarba 1y ago
FreeBSD is not really curious about being as portable as possible, I think. And it is somewhat larger, indeed, so it's not quite as easy to support more platforms.
- sedawkgrep 1y agoYeah isn’t netbsd the BSD focused on portability and platform support?
- ninjin 1y agoYes, and OpenBSD being a fork of NetBSD still carries some of that spirit.
- a96 1y agoAnd both of those have very minimal ports compared to Linux. Notably in modern arm/riscv. Netbsd has really fallen behind. Still better than the none of freebsd.
- ninjin 1y agoI mean, are we surprised? Linux has on the order of millions times more users and funds (probably not developers though, but who knows). Thus, if there is any financial viability of a port I am certainly expecting Linux to "move" first. Rather, I am impressed that OpenBSD and NetBSD are keeping up as well as they do.
- rhabarba 1y agoNetBSD and OpenBSD support “old” hardware notably longer than Linux does though. OpenBSD having dropped the VAX is not that long ago.
- sedawkgrep 1y agoYeah I suppose. But OpenBSD forked from NetBSD like, what, 30 years ago?