Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:45:59PM +0100, Dave Tyson wrote:
 > I am with Gerald on this. Having used NetBSD from 0.8 I really appreciate
 > the single source tree for all architectures and the ability to cross build
 > painlessly from different platforms. I also like the community and the fact
 > that I can generally sort out problems by searching the lists or asking on
 > the lists. Having had to do battle with Linux occasionally I have been
 > frustrated by the vast amount of conflicting information thrown up by a
 > google search on a problem...

Nobody wants to change any of this :-)

 > One concern I do have is the linuxification of a lot of big applications -
 > the likes on KDE etc. These seem to be heading down the road of being
 > strongly dependant on kludges like systemd. I despair that these will kill
 > off the ability to use NetBSD as a desktop system unless a suitable shim
 > layer can be produced which provides the information to the application
 > without the stupid windows methodology in the kernel.

My thought is that rather than shim layers we (fsvo "we") ought to be
aggressively producing an alternative design, with the goal of getting
it to the point where application developers take notice instead of
robotically following where gnome/kde lead.

Of course, it's easy to say that and I haven't had time lately to work
on NetBSD much let alone wild blue-sky ideas.

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David A. Holland
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