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Jay🚩 to Free and Open Source [email protected] • 8 months ago

NetBSD: the portable, lightweight, and robust UNIX-like operating system

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Jay🚩 to Free and Open Source [email protected] • 8 months ago
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  • @[email protected]
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    1•8 months ago

    Wholly, entirely, irelevent. Search the number of people who use NetBSD once a week compared to the number of people who use FreeBSD once a month or OpenBSD once a month. Check the number of people who have at least installed NetBSD. See what it’s used for. NetBSD is completely forgettable.

    • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє
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      Even though it’s not as popular as the other options, parts of NetBSD are used for many usecases. Take a look at

      https://netbsd.org/gallery/products.html

      and you’ll see many familiar names.

      • @[email protected]
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        2•8 months ago

        I question the claim about Apple Darwin using NetBSD since Mac is based on a 10+ year very old version of FreeBSD, and Playsttion 4 and 5 uses FreeBSD. Sony aubmits code to FreeBSD to get it supported for Playstation.

    • @[email protected]
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      Isn’t there value in niche projects? If we just had freebsd it wouldn’t cover all the usecases there are and it shouldn’t. Niche usecases sometimes need niche software

      • @[email protected]
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        3•8 months ago

        NetBSD does work for toasters, coffee machines, and fridges, absolutely!

    • @[email protected]
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      Do I count MacOS users in that search?

      • @[email protected]
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        3•8 months ago

        MacOS is a modified butchered version of FreeBSD

      • Scott
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        2•8 months ago

        No.

    • Jay🚩OP
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      https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/using-software-packages-in-pkgsrc_493.html

    • ElectricMachman
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      1•8 months ago

      So?

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