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There is a Polish proverb: the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on!
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But you think that encourage anybody to try netbsd. Good for you. Quote:
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Ok folks, with all the stuff going on in the world, do we really need to get so angry about this?
I think Distrowatch is aimed more at the less experienced, and it's fine. As for pygope's point, it doesn't matter that the review was by a troll, the point was that it was the only review out there. Now let's all look at a cute kitten picture and feel better. https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images.../_nIu8KHX.jpeg (Said kitten seems to be reacting to a comment criticizing their favorite operating system) |
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Not necessary. In this context "serious users" means Linux users who have at least an intermediate knowledge of the system they use. They do not care about DistroWatch, because as scottro mentioned, the site's purpose is to provide cursory information about, and links to, the various distributions. In other words, beginners who do not yet know that GUIs are not distribution-specific.
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I searched for reviews of all four of the major BSD derived operating systems and in the first page of results found nothing much except out of date reviews for old 4.x releases of OpenBSD and FreeBSD 9.0, typical blogs focusing on comparisons with Linux and the odd phoronix article almost entirely focused mainly on the X.org graphics stack, mesa and drm.
Clearly they're all crap and we should switch to Linux. |
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My first contact with NetBSD was in 2006? (NetBSD 5.1 was recently out). I tried the 3 main different BSD flavors, and I felt more comfortable with NetBSD, so I gave it a try, and I was delighted with it. Unfortunately, because some changes in my hardware, NetBSD was useless for me. So I had to left it. Still I have tried 6.0, 6.1 with in that moment a current kernel to support my wireless dongle (run). Until now with the arrival of 7.0 which I can again use NetBSD on a daily basis, according to my requirements. Quote:
And like we say "It is much better that people speak bad of you, that they don't speak at all". In osnews, the new of the arrival of NetBSD 7.0 only deserved 2 comments. At least in linuxquestions (oh crap! another linux forum), the new deserved a few more comments, even a couple of them try it and they said NetBSD was great. That's make me happy? Of course not. Like I said in a previous post in this thread, I like NetBSD, that's the reason I have tried any new release. That's make me sad? Yes a little, I'd rather read that NetBSD is the best thing in computer since the invention of the keyboard. |
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I cannot use my search engines of choice, Ixquick and DuckDuckGo, because they are blocked in my location, but I entered "netbsd 7.0 review" as a search term into Yandex and the first hit was an editor's review for something called Linux Softpedia. The article's conclusion is
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sndio has been ported to NetBSD and landed in pkgsrc/wip/sndio.
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Just installed. Thank you guys!
Nothing compiles like NetBSD. Pssst, don't tell them ... |
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Heh, and after all that, Distrowatch has a brief, generally positive write-up, on NetBSD.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20151130#netbsd |
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PulseAudio
New PulseAudio is out:
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Audio Drivers
I think the audio drivers might be in need of some polish. I recently purchased a USB-2.0 USB audio dongle for use with NetBSD. This dongle works perfectly with Linux. On NetBSD, audiocfg list displays the correct USB audio device, the correct devices show up in /dev for USB audio, and I can do the old cat trick:
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There's some fresh news on progress with the NetBSD audio system in Hubertf's blog:
So far, NetBSD's audio device can only be opened once. If more than one application wants to play sound, the first one wins. This is suboptimal if you want to (say) play some MP3s but also get some occasional noise from your webbrowser. Now, Nathanial Sloss has made a stab at this, providing several implementation choices. Challenges in the task are that sounds with different quality (sampling rate, mono/stereo etc.) need to be brought to one common quality before mixing and passing on to the actual audio hardware. Further fun is added by the delay this process adds. See*the discussion on tech-kern*for all the gory details! http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosx...0520_1837.html |
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AFAIK NetBSD USB audio still does not have type II or type III USB audio formats, nor asynchronous modes, but that shouldn't keep me from catting out sounds. So, it does seem driver related. I'm not really a driver guy, but I've been thinking about hooking up the debugger for it. Maybe I could catch something obvious. Anyway, thanx for the good info. |
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A truly fascinating thread with some real surprises --thank you.
But it's nearly 2019, three years after the OP; NetBSD exists still and I'm quite happy with it as a workaday OS. AFAIK, no Code of Conduct dramas, no 'init dramas' ... just a very nice solid system (and to my mind the only probable heir to BSD-lite's 4.4's crown and sceptre). Can easily use it on the pi bramble too. Apologies for the necro, if people here object to such things. o7 |
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