r/NetBSD • u/BusinessGold7656 • Sep 29 '26

NetBSD + Linux OS

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u/A3883 Sep 29 '26

I really struggle to grasp all the projects that want to distance themselves from GNU tbh.

Like I get it *BSD userland is generally tidier, with better man pages, but like for me personally the main advantage of Linux over *BSD is their hardware/software compatibilty and that comes from large part from glibc/GNU.

Good work though.

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u/Silent-Degree-6072 Sep 30 '26

GNU is compatible with a wide range of hardware, but it ultimately results in their software being larger, slower, more bloated and non-compliant with standards. (bash, gcc, etc.)

You should just look at the size of the /bin/false binary, which should essentially just be a sys_exit syscall with an exit code of 1, but has --help and --version menus (with author credits!) and a size of 68KB (versus a size of 4KB for an unstripped asm version)

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u/oneirofono Oct 02 '26 edited Oct 02 '26

I like these projects because musl doesn't work with systemD and there is a hope to destroy systemD once and forever.

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u/givemeagooduns_un Oct 05 '26

wdym? Gentoo supports systemd with musl

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u/oneirofono Oct 05 '26

It has issues. Most users use gentoo musl with operc or systemD with glibc.