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This is not the reason. We created this branch in July 2025 (GCC 12.5 was released on 11 July, 2025) and spent a year stabilizing it. A new system compiler is considered far too mu…

This is partly the reason, the other reason is that we created this branch in July 2025 (GCC 12.5 was released on 11 July, 2025) and spent a year stabilizing it. A new system compi…

People get "POSIX compliance" confused with "Unix certification". The first is an API you implement, the second is a rubber stamp. All active Unix-like operating systems aim to imp…

If that's your first target for removal, I'd wager a large amount of money that you're [unfamiliar]( https://man.netbsd.org/compat_freebsd.8 ) with the NetBSD code base.

This is part of the contract all new committers are required to sign. Becoming a NetBSD committer requires membership of the NetBSD Foundation and there's an understanding that tru…

The article is wrong, it has branding disabled (so it identifies as Nightly), but it's stable Firefox. And the linked article indicates that one compositor can be used.

Yes, X11 works. Feature chart here: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/apple/

Not true; we have podman

The author of the post probably accidentally hit the Compose key before comma by mistake. Compose comma comma produces that character. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key A v…

I wonder if there's a PDF reader that can render to sixel graphics - mlterm-wscons can display sixels.

It's "big in Japan". Used on many ISP routers there, for example Internet Initiative Japan's "SEIL" family, as well as most workstations in a few Japanese universities. pkgsrc enjo…

This is exactly the type of hardware where NetBSD shines - it's often best to install it on something from a few years ago where driver support has matured to a fine vintage. Very …

> I may have some useful hardware sitting around here at the house. Some of it may be 20 years old. How can I tell whether any of it will be useful to this project? NetBSD develope…

> Why are you comparing pkgsrc to pacman. The original commented suggested that XBPS was similar to pkgsrc. I suggested that XBPS has far more in common with Arch Linux's package m…

Actual package recipes. BSD-style packaging systems are written in BSD make using a mk/ framework rather than Arch-style shell scripts. If a package already exists for FreeBSD Port…

One reason to try it might be that pkgsrc mostly solves the problems Nix solves with conflicts in a much simpler way, by allowing multiple co-existing branches installed to differe…

Such a thing exists - https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

It is nowhere near as cross-platform as pkgsrc - it only really supports macOS and Linux.

As a pkgsrc committer, xbps is nothing like pkgsrc. The underlying stuff is much more similar to something like Arch or Alpine Linux than anything that exists in the BSD world, and…

Aside from the obvious BSD things (clean separation of base and third-party software, very different networking stack, etc), notable NetBSD things include a lot more security and h…

the core difference now is that Sun and tens of other unix vendors are dead so there's less competing commercial influences to the Linux crowd involved in maintaining this stuff. n…

what do you mean computing life exists outside of containers that exist in a magical void

thank you :)

this is an odd conclusion to make from my article, given that the entire point of it is to assert the difficulty in establishing trust and the lack of wisdom in relying on a single…