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   Pawlicker (pawlicker@makai.chaotic.ninja)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 11:42:22 JST Pawlicker

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   @YTFoidLover1488@poa.st @atlas_core@pl.starnix.network NetBSD is a meme, especially if you run the non-x86 ports because there are some ports that just don't work, have bitrotted code or other issues, and everything is cross compiled.
   
   One example of this is the PReP port of NetBSD (for 90s IBM PowerPC desktops). For a while, the installer script has been generating floppies far too big for 1.44mb, and the last version with disk images of a proper size was made in 2002! Furthermore the main limiting factor for a netboot is 2mb, meaning that you can't even netboot the machine with the latest kernel.
   
   In 2021 this was finally noticed at least and someone made a mailing list post about it and nothing has been done.
   https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-prep/2021/06/10/msg000183.html
   
   Apparently the VAX port as well has issues and someone made a YT video on it.
   https://youtu.be/6BxBDCLPJ9w