Re: [SailfishDevel] Replacing Linux with OpenBSD
2013/11/26 : > Hi, > > What would be the ups and downs of replacing Linux with something like > OpenBSD in Sailfish? Ups I don't know, but seems like at least short term downs would be losing most if not all hardware support and large chunks of core software. I'm by no means familiar with OpenBSD platform support in general, but looking at the site the list of supported SoCs wasn't overwhelmingly long... > They say "perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but > when there's nothing left to take away". > It seems no other OS in the world today embodies this as well as OpenBSD does. I'm sure there are even smaller and simpler OS projects around. Or did you mean something else by that quote? ;) > Thanks. Cheers, Kalle -- Kalle Vahlman, Movial Creative Technologies Inc. Porkkalankatu 20, FI-00180 Helsinki Tel +358 9 8567 6400 Fax +358 9 8567 6401 www.movial.com ___ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
Re: [SailfishDevel] Replacing Linux with OpenBSD
It would be quite a lot of work, I believe... For one, sailfish is based on mer, which uses systemd, which is linux specific. Then, the currently available (well, it will be available shortly!) hardware needs Android drivers. I have not been using BSD in a while... what are its advantages? In embedded projects, Linux starts to be quite entrenched... :) Luciano On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:18 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the ups and downs of replacing Linux with something like > OpenBSD in Sailfish? > > They say "perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but > when there's nothing left to take away". It seems no other OS in the world > today embodies this as well as OpenBSD does. > > Thanks. > > O.D. > > ___ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list -- Luciano Montanaro Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams ___ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
[SailfishDevel] Replacing Linux with OpenBSD
Hi, What would be the ups and downs of replacing Linux with something like OpenBSD in Sailfish? They say "perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away". It seems no other OS in the world today embodies this as well as OpenBSD does. Thanks. O.D. ___ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
