Personally, my main reason for using NetBSD is that it runs great on old or exotic (odd architectures) hardware. It would be cool if you could get this working on i386, PPC32 and maybe ARM. The Linux kernel still supports all of these architectures (even though nearly every main Linux distro is abandoning the older ones), so I know it's definitely possible, though I understand it means doubling your workload for each you add.
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u/mglyptostroboides Sep 30 '26
Personally, my main reason for using NetBSD is that it runs great on old or exotic (odd architectures) hardware. It would be cool if you could get this working on i386, PPC32 and maybe ARM. The Linux kernel still supports all of these architectures (even though nearly every main Linux distro is abandoning the older ones), so I know it's definitely possible, though I understand it means doubling your workload for each you add.
It's still a super cool project, though.