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Re:I Like NetBSD, or Why Portability Matters by brandhout on Thursday August 01, 2024 @03:13PM (#41132522)
I love that NetBSD is still going strong, I like the system but it does not really have a professional use case anymore. Not that it matters but it would be great to run NetBSD on a server or desktop and have the performance and driver support not be completely nonexistent.

The portability aspect is cool but Linux runs on more platforms nowadays

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Re:I Like NetBSD, or Why Portability Matters by jmclnx on Thursday August 01, 2024 @09:00PM (#41135187)
I think NetBSD is still the easiest to port of all other systems. I read its HAL (hardware Abstraction Layer) makes things much easier. It is just they have a far smaller set of developers.

Note, Posted via NetBSD 10.0 on a Thinkpad T430.

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