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Crowding out OpenBSDCrowding out OpenBSDPosted Nov 14, 2012 10:52 UTC (Wed) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)In reply to: Crowding out OpenBSD by rsidd Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD
Lack of drivers (porting or writing from scratch) is probably the main and most worrying indication of the lack of developpers.
It is said there is a critical mass of programming effort over an OS needed to keep it alive: precisely driver programming. (BTW, remember the title of that first book from our editor.)
BTW, BSD code is probably the only OS code base that actually survived an hibernation period without useful drivers (circa 386BSD). At least, they know they did it once...
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Crowding out OpenBSD Posted Nov 15, 2012 23:09 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link]
At my work there are some people who would like to use OpenBSD but the hardware support problems are chronic. Just today an email got sent around asking for people to collect experiences on systems that actually boot. Basically they're at the level Linux was 10 years ago: you have to be really really careful when selecting hardware.
Fortunately it runs in VMs alright.
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