johnklos
Well-known member
Well put, Gorgonops. I would just like to point out that FreeBSD and NetBSD people generally get along just fine, and OpenBSD people work with us all the time, but that it's sad that OpenBSD developers often don't feel safe to publicly work with NetBSD and FreeBSD people because of pressure from people like Theo. There's also a lot of code shared between all three projects with the only issue the occasional instance where OpenBSD imports code and forgets to credit the authors.
We (NetBSD) do build for release using a cross-building system (which is incredibly easy to use), but we also have plenty of people who test self-builds which certainly takes patience on m68k and VAX machines.
My question regarding technical reasons about a preference of OpenBSD over, say, NetBSD was because I am very familiar with NetBSD on PowerPC Macs, but I'm not very familiar with the state of OpenBSD on PowerPC Macs. I really would like to know if there are things which are further along, like SMP support for 604 machines, Xserve support, G5 support, and so on. I'd really like to know if you know.
We (NetBSD) do build for release using a cross-building system (which is incredibly easy to use), but we also have plenty of people who test self-builds which certainly takes patience on m68k and VAX machines.
My question regarding technical reasons about a preference of OpenBSD over, say, NetBSD was because I am very familiar with NetBSD on PowerPC Macs, but I'm not very familiar with the state of OpenBSD on PowerPC Macs. I really would like to know if there are things which are further along, like SMP support for 604 machines, Xserve support, G5 support, and so on. I'd really like to know if you know.