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NetBSD: the portable, lightweight, and robust UNIX-like operating system (www.osnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't there value in niche projects? If we just had freebsd it wouldn't cover all the usecases there are and it shouldn't. Niche usecases sometimes need niche software

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

NetBSD does work for toasters, coffee machines, and fridges, absolutely!

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