On your list of things that NetBSD lacks, but which GNU/LINUX has, I'd make
one definite change: "3D acceleration on NVidia GPUs"...I'd drop the the
qualification "on NVidia GPUs".

There have been on-again, off-again patches floating around to give us
accelerated 3D graphics, but they have never been integrated into the
tree or even (so far as I know) a branch.

Unless, of course, something has changed quite recently.  (^&


Re. portability (and number of platforms to which one has ported---very
different): Portability matters to *me* because of the effect that
it has on code cleanlieness.  A large number of ports, buildable
from *the*same*source*tree* is good.  From there, minimizing the
machine-dependant portions of code is good.

If adding a new port mostly boils down to a little bit of machine-
dependant lines of code, then the core system is good and adding ports
is not an interesting event for those who arn't going to use the
port in question.

IMHO.

(Well, having the single OS that supports bleeding edge hardware
also running and building current releases on ancient/slow hardware
is also good for trimming bloat, I think.  (^&)

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