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points by proxysna 1 day ago | 0 comments

> NetBSD kernel has spotty hardware support

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Still remember the times when the meme was that the NetBSD was running on absolutely anything.

[–] g58892881 1 day ago

yes! "of course it runs netbsd" just checked, it's gone on their website. probably gone for 10 yrs alread, that's roughly when i checked last

[–] phendrenad2 1 day ago

I don't think NetBSD has ever had a reputation for what they mean by "spotty hardware support" here, which is apparently uh... power management on laptops. Their links take you here: https://wiki.netbsd.org/laptops/

[–] 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago

"Oh, how the mighty have fallen."

This suggests the commenter once thought that NetBSD was mighty

Perhaps he never had such thoughts

If so, then this comment is disingenuous

There is an obvious difference between "hardware (feature) support" and "runs NetBSD"

For example I don't need X11, ACPI, audio or WiFi to "run NetSBD". I want a server not a "desktop"