Re: Release

[Pedro Pinho <pmppinho%gmail.com@localhost>]

Putting things into "boxes" is understandble but, also somewhat restrictive.

Here's a full-fledged NetBSD set-up on a laptop that I posted a few weeks ago, https://www.reddit.com/r/UsabilityPorn/comments/qv8qap/lxqt_modern_netbsd_desktop/

As you can see, not embeded device.

Den fre 17 dec. 2021 14:23Piper H <potthua%gmail.com@localhost> skrev:

I have googled for the info, the brief difference from my understanding -  freebsd for general use like ubuntu for linux, openbsd focus on security, netbsd is built for embedded. Am I right?

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 8:23 PM Lizbeth Mutterhunt, Ph.D <lizbethmutterhunt%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

Once, decades ago, BSD was once, but seperated itself into the three main-distributions: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD; the most common version nowadays - excuse please - ist FreeBSD. DragonFlyBSD is a derivative of FreeBSD with an unserspace quite different to FreeBSD, lacking the newest kernel and beta-versions called -CURRENT!

And a BSD kernel is the half of Steve Jobbs Apple Macintosh kernel and their base.

lizbeth

Am Fr., 17. Dez. 2021 um 12:39 Uhr schrieb Piper H <potthua%gmail.com@localhost>:

I have another silly question: what's the brief difference between NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD?

Thanks for pointing that out.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 10:57 AM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

Now that I think of it: isnt Android based on LINUX? Why not NetBSD
on a smartphone?

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 7:38 PM Michael Cheponis
<michael.cheponis%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> The last "Danger" smartphone -- some say still the very best smartphone for its time -- used NetBSD under the hood.  It was really fast and responsive, small, easy to fit onto the processor -- all from a buddy of mine who worked at Danger in SW.  Danger did the App SW, which was also very good.   But it was NetBSD under the hood.  My buddy showed an early prototype to me at the time, and I was jealous.
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> I do not know if the mods needed to run NetBSD that platform ever made it back into MAIN.  ('cause BSD license and all)
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Hiptop
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> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 1:04 AM Piper H <potthua%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> Is there a mobile OS based on BSD, besides OSX?
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 2:18 PM Miko Larsson <jjflxyz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>
>>> When it's ready ;p
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~~~miko
>>>
>>> On 12/15/21, Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> > When is the next official NetBSD release?
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~~~miko