Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”

Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by peatmoss on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:40AM (#20312508)

Yeah, that was my point: of course the more popular platform is going to have broader support. So the question is whether or not it’s possible to improve the less popular thing. My guess is that, with investment in time, there is nothing that prevents straightforward improvements in support in OpenBSD.

Why would OpenBSD be worthy of that expenditure of effort? Because it does some other things very well—perhaps better than Linux (Unix simplicity) and macOS (fully open). Not to mention security.

It sounds like you want a feature set that isn’t in OpenBSD. Fine, use macOS if those features are must-haves for you. Or, if OpenBSD’s feature set is compelling to you, start hacking! As I said elsewhere, I think it’s an easier path to make OpenBSD into what I want than it is to make macOS / Windows into what I want.

As for hardware support, I selected hardware that is well supported by OpenBSD, and it works great. Is there hardware I wish was better supported? You bet. But I’ve felt that way since I started using Linux and BSDs (and OS/2 and BeOS) in the 90s.

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by fluffything on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:52AM (#20312570)

I encourage you to do that.

In todays world of "throw-away" electronics, there are a lot of devices that I just want to "just work". By the time these are supported on OpenBSD (if I were to implement it), I'll probably be owning a different device.

This is sad, because while I can select the hardware for my laptop, I can't really select the hardware and devices I need to interface with.

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