Oct 17, 2026, 3:09 PMand again if you need stability and netbsd is thiiis close to being perfect on your hardware, please don’t let me stop you from tinkering with it and contributing and making it work
do let me stop you from pretending it’s a solution to anything but your problems on your hardware, though
@zzt there are parts of this I agree with pretty strongly. One nuance I want to add, and a reason I'm looking to get into NetBSD driver contribution, is that they are the only game in town for "drivers actually designed so you can use them with other kernels." So if you do need or want to switch to some other OS someday, you're less locked-in. I'm literally planning to rely on NetBSD drivers for my microkernel project in a couple years.
It's honestly a bit damning that none of the other operating system options are trying to contribute to a driver commons.
