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FreeBSD s/390 Port in the works

Posted by timothy on from the very-beginnings dept.

brad-x writes: "It appears that an enterprising gentleman has taken the time to port FreeBSD to the s/390. It needs some work yet, as his project page suggests, but if he makes it happen it will definitely be very cool. Check it out!"

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  1. Re:NetBSD isn't on that platform by overbom · · Score: 2, Insightful

    NetBSD's priority isn't as a server OS; its priority is to be on multiple architectures to be an embedded system.

    At least, that's what the head guy said in his recent interview.

  2. Re:Kind of silly. by rsidd · · Score: 2, Insightful
    They have some odd priorities.

    Um, it's just one guy doing this, so far and he'll do whatever interests him, obviously. If all free software people did what was "needed" and not what was personally interesting to them, commercial OS's would be extinct by now.

  3. Re:Kind of silly. by treat · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Um, it's just one guy doing this, so far and he'll do whatever interests him, obviously. If all free software people did what was "needed" and not what was personally interesting to them, commercial OS's would be extinct by now.

    Indeed. Look at all the poor free software that there are multiple, independent, poor versions of. (e.g. DVD/mpeg players, web browsers, word processors, financial software, file managers). If people had coordinated, with a goal of producing what was needed, instead of each writing their own software independently because of what they personally wanted, the free solutions would be so vastly superior to the commercial solutions that only the free ones would survive. Unfortunately, this almost never happens.