washbear

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by washbear 2mo ago
This is not the reason. We created this branch in July 2025 (GCC 12.5 was released on 11 July, 2025) and spent a year stabilizing it. A new system compiler is considered far too much of a risky, incompatible change to backport. Especially s
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by washbear 2mo ago
This is partly the reason, the other reason is that we created this branch in July 2025 (GCC 12.5 was released on 11 July, 2025) and spent a year stabilizing it. A new system compiler is considered far too much of a risky, incompatible chan
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by washbear 2y ago
People get "POSIX compliance" confused with "Unix certification". The first is an API you implement, the second is a rubber stamp. All active Unix-like operating systems aim to implement the new interfaces as they'r
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by washbear 2y ago
If that's your first target for removal, I'd wager a large amount of money that you're [unfamiliar]( https://man.netbsd.org/compat_freebsd.8 ) with the NetBSD code base.
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by washbear 2y ago
This is part of the contract all new committers are required to sign. Becoming a NetBSD committer requires membership of the NetBSD Foundation and there's an understanding that trust is expected.
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by washbear 2y ago
The article is wrong, it has branding disabled (so it identifies as Nightly), but it's stable Firefox. And the linked article indicates that one compositor can be used.
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by washbear 2y ago
Yes, X11 works. Feature chart here: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/apple/
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by washbear 2y ago
Not true; we have podman
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by washbear 4y ago
The author of the post probably accidentally hit the Compose key before comma by mistake. Compose comma comma produces that character. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key A very NetBSD mistake.
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by washbear 4y ago
I wonder if there's a PDF reader that can render to sixel graphics - mlterm-wscons can display sixels.
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by washbear 4y ago
It's "big in Japan". Used on many ISP routers there, for example Internet Initiative Japan's "SEIL" family, as well as most workstations in a few Japanese universities. pkgsrc enjoys mild popularity in the scie
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by washbear 4y ago
This is exactly the type of hardware where NetBSD shines - it's often best to install it on something from a few years ago where driver support has matured to a fine vintage. Very good OS for preventing old hardware from being binned.
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by washbear 5y ago
> I may have some useful hardware sitting around here at the house. Some of it may be 20 years old. How can I tell whether any of it will be useful to this project? NetBSD developer hat on It will likely be very useful, martin would pa
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by washbear 5y ago
> Why are you comparing pkgsrc to pacman. The original commented suggested that XBPS was similar to pkgsrc. I suggested that XBPS has far more in common with Arch Linux's package manager than pkgsrc or anything else in the BSD world
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by washbear 5y ago
Actual package recipes. BSD-style packaging systems are written in BSD make using a mk/ framework rather than Arch-style shell scripts. If a package already exists for FreeBSD Ports I would check that first because it's much more
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by washbear 5y ago
One reason to try it might be that pkgsrc mostly solves the problems Nix solves with conflicts in a much simpler way, by allowing multiple co-existing branches installed to different prefixes.
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by washbear 5y ago
Such a thing exists - https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis
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by washbear 5y ago
It is nowhere near as cross-platform as pkgsrc - it only really supports macOS and Linux.
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by washbear 5y ago
As a pkgsrc committer, xbps is nothing like pkgsrc. The underlying stuff is much more similar to something like Arch or Alpine Linux than anything that exists in the BSD world, and it's much less configurable than pkgsrc.
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by washbear 5y ago
Aside from the obvious BSD things (clean separation of base and third-party software, very different networking stack, etc), notable NetBSD things include a lot more security and hardening features enabled by default, a powerful and versati
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by washbear 6y ago
the core difference now is that Sun and tens of other unix vendors are dead so there's less competing commercial influences to the Linux crowd involved in maintaining this stuff. note that Alan Coopersmith is paid by Oracle to work on
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by washbear 6y ago
what do you mean computing life exists outside of containers that exist in a magical void
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by washbear 6y ago
thank you :)
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by washbear 6y ago
this is an odd conclusion to make from my article, given that the entire point of it is to assert the difficulty in establishing trust and the lack of wisdom in relying on a single source