Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report

Re:Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report by bch on Monday July 01, 2019 @04:03PM (#20329181)

Like I mentioned above, I’m of the NetBSD camp. Adopts things like SMP and PAM (, dtrace, zfs, ...) where OpenBSD “drags its feet” or outright rejects (for reasons), but (ime) is less baffling and brittle than FreeBSD (pkgsrc vs ports (though in netbsd tradition, pkgsrc is portable to FreeBSD (and macOS X, Minix, Linux, SmartOS, ...))). Though as ‘pmarin said elsewhere, these are all general purpose OSes, with lots to offer in general, and some specifics to offer which differentiate them from ea. other and from any other OS.

If OpenBSD seems attractive to you, jump in :)

Give it a fair few weeks and evaluate. They’ve got some neat architecture features to play with (e.g. unveil(2), pledge(2)[0]) to exercise your software design/implementation. NetBSD and FreeBSD have dtrace[1] (NetBSD impl. is incomplete but still interesting and useful) and virtualization like bhyve[2] and nvmm[3]. Jump in!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17277067

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace

[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVMM-Net...

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Re:Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report by logicprog on Monday July 01, 2019 @06:02PM (#20330185)

You know, NetBSD sounds great, maybe I'll start there.

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Re:Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report by bch on Monday July 01, 2019 @07:14PM (#20330657)

Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy it. Give it a few weeks to sink in if you feel at odds, and keep #netbsd on irc.freenode.net in mind. Probably worth even just lurking on #netbsd in the absence of any problems or questions.

Good luck!

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