Re: NetBSD remains stagnant as Charles Hannum said?

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

Don't feed the troll.

Chavdar

On 16 January 2014 03:05, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost> 
wrote:
>
>> NetBSD is Not dead,
>>   eg NetBSD's urtwn wlan driver was adopted by FreeBSD but Net
>>   has newer code than Free, last I looked 1 or 2 months back.
>>   Long may *BSDs (& Linux etc) thrive & co-operate :-)
>
>> Cheers,
>> Julian
>
>> Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
>
> Good point.  Although NetBSD struggles to be compatible with my hardware, and 
> I wouldn't expect to build a really productive system as I might with FreeBSD 
> or Linux, I see enough changes that I never said NetBSD was stagnant.
>
> I see possibly useful source code in NetBSD, and OpenBSD too, such as athn(4) 
> and re(4) drivers, with a view to porting to FreeBSD.
>
> Even though OpenBSD is incompatible with my hardware for lack of GPT and USB 
> 3.0 support, I could download the current src tree to compare to FreeBSD and 
> NetBSD, even if I don't have the platform to compile it and don't want to do 
> all the heavy work on USB sticks.
>
> FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD have re(4) driver, but they don't connect 
> with the Ethernet on MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard, while NetBSD and Linux are 
> successful.
>
> Tom
>



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