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Re:Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report by pmarin on Monday July 01, 2019 @05:03AM (#20323615)
> Would you be able to speak to the differences between OpenBSD, NetBSD, And FreeBSD? So far as I can tell, FreeBSD is generally focused on getting the most software and the most drivers, etc, in order to compete with Linux, while OpenBSD focuses on implementing everything in the "correct" way, and NetBSD focuses on being a lightweight OS for routers and the like. Is this about right?

Not even close.

They all are general purpose BSD unix operating systems. All of them are interested in correctness, performance, portability and security (but not in the same order).

The reason why BSD forked has more to do with politics (the seek of power and control) than technical differences.

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Re:Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report by logicprog on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:29AM (#20325048)
Are there any technical differences, though? I'd imagine, with different sets of developers for some amount of time, they'd develop?
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Re:Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report by pmarin on Monday July 01, 2019 @10:20AM (#20325468)
Of course but they are not so narrow focused like often many people use to depict them.

In order to justify why there so many forks of the BSD kernel it seems to be an urge for exalting their differences when the main reason is simple politics.

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