We want to be less restrictive with the codebase when it comes to experimenting with features.
It’s been awhile since I’ve mucked about with any BSDs; couldn’t they have done this with ports and continued participating in the OpenBSD community? Forking seems to be the last option.
While additional compilers have long been available in ports, things like filesystem, libc, and partitioning capability changes seem like they would need to be fairly integral with base.
That’s an impressive feature set. Good work, Patrick and co.
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It’s been awhile since I’ve mucked about with any BSDs; couldn’t they have done this with ports and continued participating in the OpenBSD community? Forking seems to be the last option.
While additional compilers have long been available in ports, things like filesystem, libc, and partitioning capability changes seem like they would need to be fairly integral with base.
The changes sound interesting, any chance that some of it gets integrated in OpenBSD?
I’m pretty sure Bitrig has been mentioned as the source in a few OpenBSD commits. So of course it’s possible.