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Re:Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module i... by rjsw on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:29AM (#24028263)
AppleTalk works fine on NetBSD. Doesn't require some long process to fix anything that breaks.
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Re:Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module i... by rjsw on Sunday August 02, 2020 @01:25PM (#24030015)
My point was that maybe the Linux development process isn't a good match for niche areas like this. With NetBSD+pkgsrc, I can (and have done) just commit fixes to the kernel and userland AppleTalk code directly without needing to go through gatekeepers who may not have used this feature.

The blog author might want to look at a recent pkgsrc patch to netatalk 2.2 that makes it work with current CUPS.

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