Re:Testing the Lua kernel interpreter in NetBSD (2021)
by rahen on Sunday February 12, 2023 @06:41PM
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NetBSD (and pkgsrc) have a very loyal user base, with quite different expectations from their system than the Linux or FreeBSD user base.
I guess what NetBSD is after (preserving the heritage of the original Unix, keeping things simple and stable with very minimal requirements while staying as platform agnostic as possible) is a bit of a niche, which also explains the small user base.
More users favor simplicity of usage rather than technical simplicity, run powerful aarch64/amd64 machines rather than exotic / constrained hardware, and are more after the "move fast" model than after long term technical stability and consistency.
I guess what NetBSD is after (preserving the heritage of the original Unix, keeping things simple and stable with very minimal requirements while staying as platform agnostic as possible) is a bit of a niche, which also explains the small user base.
More users favor simplicity of usage rather than technical simplicity, run powerful aarch64/amd64 machines rather than exotic / constrained hardware, and are more after the "move fast" model than after long term technical stability and consistency.