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Re: OpenBSD 7.8

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Post by sedawkgrep » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 2:01 PM UTC

ninjin wrote: post #8

sedawkgrep wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah isn’t netbsd the BSD focused on portability and platform support?

Yes, and OpenBSD being a fork of NetBSD still carries some of that spirit.

Yeah I suppose.

But OpenBSD forked from NetBSD like, what, 30 years ago?

Re: OpenBSD 7.8

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Post by rhabarba » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 3:49 PM UTC

a96 wrote: post #9

ninjin wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and OpenBSD being a fork of NetBSD still carries some of that spirit.

And both of those have very minimal ports compared to Linux. Notably in modern arm/riscv. Netbsd has really fallen behind. Still better than the none of freebsd.

NetBSD and OpenBSD support “old” hardware notably longer than Linux does though. OpenBSD having dropped the VAX is not that long ago.

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