The Future of NetBSD (2006)

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html

by Tomte • 2 years ago

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treadmill• 2 years ago

Can someone knowledgeable in the past 20 years of NetBSD chime in how things developed from that point?

jart• 2 years ago

My analysis as an outsider is that Charles Hannum joined the NetBSD dev team a month after it was founded and his contributions were almost exclusively code cleanup changes. By 1995 he was writing bug fixes and features like SA_RESETHAND and SA_NODEFER. Then in 1996, Chris Demetriou (the NetBSD founder) gave Charles control of the netbsd.org domain name. He then disappeared from the change log, but committers continued to give him credit for various changes for another seven years. The last time his name was mentioned in the commit log was in 2002. Charles formally parted ways with NetBSD in 2006 and wrote the rant above. But even then, he continued to maintain control of the netbsd.org domain name, under his personal name, until 2015 when a UDRP complaint allowed WIPO to take control of it and give it back to the NetBSD project. Charles took jobs at a few companies like VMWare, but he never stayed employed longer than 1 year, and eventually became a consultant.

HackerThemAll• 2 years ago

This truly portable OS has just released version 10.0. I wish some big pockets donated like $10M to improve it. That would be a boost to this marvelous operating system.

Look at the impressive list of architectures it works on.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/

The Future of NetBSD (2006)

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